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Nearly a year getting my characters to look exactly the way I want, and they just import to Unreal in a few clicks. "Saving a Ton of time" As someone else said, that's an understatement.
IMPORTANT IMPORT SETTING - 4:43 timestamp.. You also need to set the Material Import Method to Do Not Create Material and Import Textures to disabled. The Plugin imports and creates the materials correctly this way. If you don't change this (which was addressed in previous auto-setup tutorials) you'll notice issues with your mesh instances creating MaterialInstanceDynamic Material which is data only. Hopefully this helps anyone with the same issue, it took me a few hours to debug and I was lucky I'd backed up my project before upgrading the autosetup plugin.
I allways did this in UE4, but dont know if it applies correctly to UE5. Have been getting better results with the steps shown in the video, with virtual shadows maps (Beta) active. I know that in UE5 that option is no longer Beta, it impacts the quality of models so much, but it comes at a high cost resource wise.
Thanks a lot for this video. Question: I'm following these steps to the T. The textures get brought in, but the materials are blank still. The only difference is that I didn't have the option for HQ when I imported it. I did receive a bunch of messages while it imported that said, "Miss RLShader Date". Is there an option that I'm missing here, or is there another video that can show how to set up all of the materials? I'd prefer the former since there are so many that come with one of these models. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Solution: I didn't install the plugin correctly. I tried to copy the contents to the engine's folder so that I could install this at will in a project. This doesn't allow for the shaders folder to be placed in the project though. This seems like a bug that could be fixed. It would be way more convenient if a user doesn't have to keep copying files around when they try to use this method. After that though, everything came in great. The HQ option was available, no errors while importing, and all of the materials were created properly. Thanks again!
On your previous UE4 tutorial for autosetup we had "Do not create material" but here those settings were left alone, is this the correct new way? Many thanks.
How long does it usually take for you guys to import the character? It feels like it takes forever on my end. Could there be an issue with my hardwar/software, or does it take this long for everyone?
Hi @WitOlszewski, Please submit your questions with clear screenshots and/or screen recordings to our Support Team. We'll try to resolve your issue as soon as possible. www.reallusion.com/CustomerSupport/User/FAQList.html
This is nice but it would be even better if we saw how to take an entire scene in iClone 8 and move it to Unreal to render. So far all I've seen is moving assets as if you were building a game environment (which is fine but with the lagging of iClone's renderer doing it in some outside program seems the only feasible way for RL to compete nowadays).
@@armondtanz Some of us have TONS of content already we would rather not try and find/duplicate/pay for. I honestly have WAY more content than I will ever use in my lifetime and if I can't bring that into UnReal I am NOT going to use that engine. But - I'll look at that tutorial to see if that's possible, thanks.
@@armondtanz Thanks - I'll give this all a try in the next couple of days and see what this old man can actually do (it may be too late at my age to learn something this new, though).
Hi!, where i can find the MHC tool in Unreal Engine. I uploaded the plugin but the FPS now drops down to 10 fps (i was 90 before aupgrade) i guess unreal is not recognicing the plug in. thanks!
I try to install the Auto Setup (Version 1.32.5924.1), but the app always freezes when it opens the installation wizard. Anyone know why this is happening? Thanks!
If i just export motion from CC4 but my model has facial animation, is this enough or do i have to export mesh and motion please? (i already have exported the T pose earlier)
Does not work for me. I have tried everything and unreal crashes. If i import without the plugin it doesnt crash but the materials are set up improperly
Therer is a blendshape error on custom characters with 3dxchange on unreal engine 5.2.1. Therer unknown characters like the dollars sympol.this version of unreal can read it anymore.what should i do?
I have no animation, UE Outpu log says: No smoothing group information was found in this FBX scene. Please make sure to enable the 'Export Smoothing Groups' option in the FBX Exporter plug-in before exporting the file. Even for tools that don't support smoothing groups, the FBX Exporter will generate appropriate smoothing data at export-time so that correct vertex normals can be inferred while importing. How to fix it?
please make tutorial upgrading autosetup plugin & cc materials... can i just replace the content folder? or i have to delete it first one by one in unreal - -'
im having issues with the unreal live link and autosetup when i use live link and import to unreal 5.0.3 the charectors hair and eyes and brows are not perfect even though in the video it shows they are. weird.
With this auto update iClone and CC4 are light years ahead of the Daz Bridge. Sooo, I thought I would be smart and test to see if i could convert a daz character to CC3+ base and send through the Auto Updater. It was, ummm, painful, and I had very scary results. If anyone knows if it IS possible please let me know. Maybe I need to tick other boxes I wasn't aware of when exporting. Thought this might have been the answer to all my problems. POSTEDIT: Got this to work with Daz Characters, and all is working well.
Skeleton is the problem. The skeleton that these characters come with from CC4 is incompatible UE5 skeleton so there isn't much you can do with CC4 charaters inside UE5 unless you rig them with UE5 skeleton.
Hi @ahmadnaweedrustami7354, CC4 character is compatible with UE4 skeleton. Please refer to the following tutorial and retarget UE4 skeleton to UE5. ruclips.net/video/EvUGgpSUxPI/видео.html
For anyone having issues with hair that comes in too transparent. Just increase the Opacity Multiplier in the hair material(s) that Auto setup creates for your character in Unreal
@@lpmlpm123 thank you for replying (twice :) ), ahh that's good then. Once imported its great, no slow down, buffering, all real time and silky smooth! thanks again!
With your import setup unreal create basic material for my character and not with your shaders. Before for CC3 we need to change material search for don't search and material import for do not create material. If I do this my character doesn't have any material. I use the last version of unreal engine 5 and the last version of your plugin.
I used the auto setup for ue5.0.3. The result is bad. The hands of any meshes exported from cc4 to fbx are distorsed. It is better not to use the auto setup while importing to UE5
We do provide free Unity Auto Setup to automate the setup of materials for Character Creator and iClone character exports for Unity HDRP Pipeline. You can download the whole package on our website: www.reallusion.com/auto-setup/unity/default.html
The animations are not being included!! I even tried exporting the animation directly from iClone and it just imports with a static UE5 pose.... no animation sequences... such an expensive bit of software that spends most of its time broken...
Yeah, but it doesn't work with control rig or the UE5 Skeleton. There is not even a pose that matches, not even the T-pose is the same. With regard to making a usable character, this is still stuck in the Unreal Engine 4 era :( Hope you don't need IK because you won't get it with this software unless you already know how to set it up from scratch
first I couldn't login to account then your website doesn't work then downloads fail . Now the link for plugin doesnt exist / work. coming from daz, what a horrible experience this has been so far. entire day just wasted trying to figure basic things out.
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Will there be an update to use CC4 characters with the UE5 Skeleton for the 3rd Person template?
I was also wondering this, and will they be compatible with the UE5 control rig? Or do they automatically have it once imported please?
This would be great to export as ue4 or ue5 skeleton
Nearly a year getting my characters to look exactly the way I want, and they just import to Unreal in a few clicks. "Saving a Ton of time" As someone else said, that's an understatement.
IMPORTANT IMPORT SETTING - 4:43 timestamp..
You also need to set the Material Import Method to Do Not Create Material and Import Textures to disabled.
The Plugin imports and creates the materials correctly this way.
If you don't change this (which was addressed in previous auto-setup tutorials) you'll notice issues with your mesh instances creating MaterialInstanceDynamic Material which is data only.
Hopefully this helps anyone with the same issue, it took me a few hours to debug and I was lucky I'd backed up my project before upgrading the autosetup plugin.
My character's hair always looks weird
I allways did this in UE4, but dont know if it applies correctly to UE5. Have been getting better results with the steps shown in the video, with virtual shadows maps (Beta) active. I know that in UE5 that option is no longer Beta, it impacts the quality of models so much, but it comes at a high cost resource wise.
"SAVING A TON OF TIME"
BRUHHHHHH YOU SAVED ME MONTHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT SHIT IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT LETS GOOOOO
Would love to see one for v-ray to get 1:1 from CC4/iclone into maya or max. Vray is widely the most common renderer on the market
Great video btw!
I've been playing around with going iclone to max vray. A simple plugin would be great eh!
I don't have any sub surface scattering effects and my character torso shadow is missing
yeah! awesome, looking forward to that following physics tutorial!
Is there a way to set these export options as default instead of having to pick them every time?
Thanks a lot for this video.
Question: I'm following these steps to the T. The textures get brought in, but the materials are blank still. The only difference is that I didn't have the option for HQ when I imported it. I did receive a bunch of messages while it imported that said, "Miss RLShader Date". Is there an option that I'm missing here, or is there another video that can show how to set up all of the materials? I'd prefer the former since there are so many that come with one of these models. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Solution: I didn't install the plugin correctly. I tried to copy the contents to the engine's folder so that I could install this at will in a project. This doesn't allow for the shaders folder to be placed in the project though. This seems like a bug that could be fixed. It would be way more convenient if a user doesn't have to keep copying files around when they try to use this method.
After that though, everything came in great. The HQ option was available, no errors while importing, and all of the materials were created properly. Thanks again!
question: Is iclone going to have update for cc auto setup and livelink to unreal 5.4?
I noticed a select skeleton box, would I be able to use an unreal skeleton in the project instead of the cc4 skeleton?
On your previous UE4 tutorial for autosetup we had "Do not create material" but here those settings were left alone, is this the correct new way? Many thanks.
How long does it usually take for you guys to import the character? It feels like it takes forever on my end. Could there be an issue with my hardwar/software, or does it take this long for everyone?
Hi @WitOlszewski,
Please submit your questions with clear screenshots and/or screen recordings to our Support Team. We'll try to resolve your issue as soon as possible.
www.reallusion.com/CustomerSupport/User/FAQList.html
eye and scalps are still not working when focus setting on camera is used.
Auto Setup for UE 5.2 is out, yaaayy :)
This is nice but it would be even better if we saw how to take an entire scene in iClone 8 and move it to Unreal to render. So far all I've seen is moving assets as if you were building a game environment (which is fine but with the lagging of iClone's renderer doing it in some outside program seems the only feasible way for RL to compete nowadays).
@@armondtanz Some of us have TONS of content already we would rather not try and find/duplicate/pay for. I honestly have WAY more content than I will ever use in my lifetime and if I can't bring that into UnReal I am NOT going to use that engine. But - I'll look at that tutorial to see if that's possible, thanks.
@@armondtanz Thanks - I'll give this all a try in the next couple of days and see what this old man can actually do (it may be too late at my age to learn something this new, though).
So can we do this now?
Any release predictions for version 5.4?
Hi!, where i can find the MHC tool in Unreal Engine. I uploaded the plugin but the FPS now drops down to 10 fps (i was 90 before aupgrade) i guess unreal is not recognicing the plug in. thanks!
I try to install the Auto Setup (Version 1.32.5924.1), but the app always freezes when it opens the installation wizard.
Anyone know why this is happening? Thanks!
EUW_mhc quality setting in unreal 5.3 where i can find it
If i just export motion from CC4 but my model has facial animation, is this enough or do i have to export mesh and motion please? (i already have exported the T pose earlier)
Does not work for me. I have tried everything and unreal crashes. If i import without the plugin it doesnt crash but the materials are set up improperly
exact same issue here
@Tino PlusUltra Eventually I got it to work but I forget how as I've been using 3ds max more than unreal.
its due to undervolting of CPU either from bios or any utility software you are using
where the download link my friends i went to the page it was not there
You can find it from the latest release note, which is the same.
@@lpmlpm123 i did my friend that removed the link so hopeful it be there y Monday don't think they work over the weekend
I can't find it either 🤷🏻♂
Auto setup for Unreal page > release note > Auto setup version 1.24
@@lpmlpm123 No dude like we said the link is definitely not here anymore
the fist step, Open the Unreal 5 , If i have not select MHC Quality Setting High Ray Traced, After import the fbx will not good?is it very important??
Therer is a blendshape error on custom characters with 3dxchange on unreal engine 5.2.1. Therer unknown characters like the dollars sympol.this version of unreal can read it anymore.what should i do?
I have no animation, UE Outpu log says:
No smoothing group information was found in this FBX scene. Please make sure to enable the 'Export Smoothing Groups' option in the FBX Exporter plug-in before exporting the file. Even for tools that don't support smoothing groups, the FBX Exporter will generate appropriate smoothing data at export-time so that correct vertex normals can be inferred while importing.
How to fix it?
please make tutorial upgrading autosetup plugin & cc materials... can i just replace the content folder? or i have to delete it first one by one in unreal - -'
Quick question @Reallusion.
Does this support the new Wrinkles system?
When would someone choose to use the standard or LW shader instead of the HQ shader? Any specific scenario?
im having issues with the unreal live link and autosetup when i use live link and import to unreal 5.0.3 the charectors hair and eyes and brows are not perfect even though in the video it shows they are. weird.
With this auto update iClone and CC4 are light years ahead of the Daz Bridge. Sooo, I thought I would be smart and test to see if i could convert a daz character to CC3+ base and send through the Auto Updater. It was, ummm, painful, and I had very scary results. If anyone knows if it IS possible please let me know. Maybe I need to tick other boxes I wasn't aware of when exporting. Thought this might have been the answer to all my problems.
POSTEDIT: Got this to work with Daz Characters, and all is working well.
How did you do it?
yeah same daz just do not work so well at all sadly
Hope they fixed the transparency problem from iclone 7 to Unreal Engine. The hair was a constant problem that was never truly solved
Did they?
How long does the import take? mines taking a very long time not sure if its crashed...
Same here!
@@rsalinaszambrano it's taking so long here that i'm inclined to ask you, one year later, if yours is already complete. lol
Why don't I have a "apply cc textures" button?
Skeleton is the problem. The skeleton that these characters come with from CC4 is incompatible UE5 skeleton so there isn't much you can do with CC4 charaters inside UE5 unless you rig them with UE5 skeleton.
Hi @ahmadnaweedrustami7354,
CC4 character is compatible with UE4 skeleton. Please refer to the following tutorial and retarget UE4 skeleton to UE5.
ruclips.net/video/EvUGgpSUxPI/видео.html
Why did ue5 charactor eyebrows not move with I change charactor expression?，cc 4 brows file format is .rlHair
for some reason my character imports fine, except the head, and hair, the colors are pitch black
Is there a new setup/pipeline for Daz3d to CC4? I'm encountering problems?
Dose anyone know how to access MHC Quality Settings as described in the video? It did not pop up for me.
Does this fix the skeleton bone names issue that everyone goes on about?
shader settings dont show up for me..
When is the latest version going to release for Ue 5.1? Any estimate available?
it's already out in case u don't know
Give us a auto setup for cinema 4d redshift
For anyone having issues with hair that comes in too transparent. Just increase the Opacity Multiplier in the hair material(s) that Auto setup creates for your character in Unreal
thank you bro
isn't the last step non commercial use
is it work for unreal engine 5.3?
hi @ramonicfilm,
Yes, the Unreal Engine AutoSetup is compatible with UE 5.2-5.4.
Does the import take a long time for anyone else please? I am talking 20 mins or more?
If you're going to import FBX files like motions, it will take time in Unreal, which is normal.
@@lpmlpm123 thank you for replying (twice :) ), ahh that's good then. Once imported its great, no slow down, buffering, all real time and silky smooth! thanks again!
did it work?
mines taking ages
@@Debneyink yeah but each character takes a long time, maybe 15/20 mins but once imported then all good!
@@ukmonk yeah cool mine eventuallyworked and yeah its great
Could I just do this from iClone with the transfer feature?
Yes, you can. It utilizes the Auto Setup feature when you are transferring something via iClone Live Link.
Do I have to copy and paste the plugin and content folders into every new project?
yes!
@@bigdamnhero2297 thanks bro
@@armondtanz thanks for the tip
Is there a video for using the iclone character but with the Metahuman head? I can't find one.
Thank You!!!
5.4 pleaseeee
this is great but it takes quite a long time to import a character, is this normal please? once done its as smooth as ice though :)
yes, it is.
@@lpmlpm123 🙂
its take a lot time
Mine is taking forever. It is stuck on 80% for quite some time now.
Same here, taking forever
Where’s faceware for iclone 8 ?
is it just me or the texture seems very bad in UE5 ? It looks very different from CC4 and UE5
i have never seen something so complicated to understand how to install. i would pay someone to help me.
how did you fix that hair noise ?
I finally figured it out. Change the anti aliasing method in project settings to TAA instead of FXAA.
@@heirapparent4802 thanks bro
@@mustplay8932 np. I only half figured it out though
@@heirapparent4802 no problem bro i think that's good enough for me , for now
@@mustplay8932 ok if you’re using the movie render queue, try 4k and more samples.
With your import setup unreal create basic material for my character and not with your shaders. Before for CC3 we need to change material search for don't search and material import for do not create material. If I do this my character doesn't have any material. I use the last version of unreal engine 5 and the last version of your plugin.
Did you export FBX format of your character with Unreal Preset settings in CC4?
@@lpmlpm123 Yep :/
I used the auto setup for ue5.0.3. The result is bad. The hands of any meshes exported from cc4 to fbx are distorsed. It is better not to use the auto setup while importing to UE5
Wen 5.3?
Great
Dont forget unity please
We do provide free Unity Auto Setup to automate the setup of materials for Character Creator and iClone character exports for Unity HDRP Pipeline. You can download the whole package on our website: www.reallusion.com/auto-setup/unity/default.html
i got shader corruption after using this
The animations are not being included!! I even tried exporting the animation directly from iClone and it just imports with a static UE5 pose.... no animation sequences... such an expensive bit of software that spends most of its time broken...
Yeah, but it doesn't work with control rig or the UE5 Skeleton. There is not even a pose that matches, not even the T-pose is the same. With regard to making a usable character, this is still stuck in the Unreal Engine 4 era :( Hope you don't need IK because you won't get it with this software unless you already know how to set it up from scratch
first I couldn't login to account then your website doesn't work then downloads fail . Now the link for plugin doesnt exist / work. coming from daz, what a horrible experience this has been so far. entire day just wasted trying to figure basic things out.
5.4 please 🥲
You lost me at MHC
LOL, helps to point out where that's at.
Found it.
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