Change Skeleton Asset of Skeletal Mesh

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Hello,

is it possible to change the skeleton asset of an existing Skeletak Mesh.

For Example, with the 15 Mixamo Character from the market place, can I change those to all use the same skeleton, so that they will share the same Animation Blueprint?

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Right Click Skeletal Mesh → Skeleton → Assign Skeleton

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Hmm, with this I have "missing bone"s - and don’t see an obvious way to assign them (as can be done with the animation retargetting)

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my life is saved by him

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My life is saved by him too. Awesome!

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And lo he saved us all

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I also have been saved by him.

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Hail, a saviour.

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What about rigging?

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save my life too (in Unreal 5)

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You Save my Life in 2022/4/13

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Saved! I just wish I knew this a looong time ago, would have saved me many headaches :smiley: Thank you!

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If the skeleton isn’t the same, then you need to use retargetting. You can only Asign Skeleton for assets using the identical skeleton. This is a fast way to get a marketplace character to work with your animBP. If only there was a way to Bulk Edit the skeleton. I can see it in the bulk edit options, but it’s grayed out so I can’t change it :frowning:

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You need to click on the display tab instead of the property tab.
I saw your comment here, and thought I’d show you, so here’s a video I recorded for you. I was being too lazy to type the steps :smiley:

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Thanks for posting. Sadly this feature doesn’t exist in UE4. I should have specified. Good to know it’s there when I switch to 5 though :slight_smile:

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And for 4.27 :wink:

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Oh, nice. The current project I’m working on is 4.25 because one of the plug-ins I use doesn’t go higher. Good to know though. Thank you :slight_smile:

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Oh I see. What plugin is that? If you don’t mind me asking. :slight_smile:

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Not at all… EpicLeaderboard.com

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Ok… I felt a bit bad that you’re stuck with 4.25 because of a plugin that isn’t updated…
So I did some digging, and found that a youtuber has made it work for 4.26, I grabbed his code, did a few changes, mostly engine version and some naming stuff, and then it built successfully for 5.0.3.

Check the description in my video here, where I show it works in 5.0.3 :slight_smile:

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