How to Fix iClone Hair in the Unreal Engine [4.27]

Bringing in a character from iClone /Character Creator to Unreal can result in soft cloth issues. I'll show you how to fix it the bug along with several tips.

[@EveBatStudios]

I definitely needed this one. Thank you Ben!

[@4413Media]

You're welcome. Glad it helped.

[@facr]

Very good tutorial! Thanks!

[@daniel6sharma]

I lose about 25fps with this kinda cloth physics setup for hair. Is this normal? Is there a better cheaper way to do hair?

[@MrBandClap]

Hey! So I have Unreal Engine 5 and I imported my character creator 3 character to Unreal via the auto setup live link through iclone but on my end, my cloth paint section is blank and I can't create a cloth with the hair or the clothes. Has something changed with unreal 5?

[@4413Media]

I see it from time to time. I ran into the same issue working on the last project for a client, so I made a basic weight map for the hair/cloth inside of Character Creator and did all the adjustments in Unreal. Usually fixes that issue.

[@MrBandClap]

@@4413Media okay, I get what you're saying, so did you do the weight map and all of that before you transferred the character from iclone to unreal? Because yeah, I saw that in iclone, the hair hair doesn't have a weight map so I added it and it added physics to the hair in iclone but when I connected it to live link in unreal it didn't transfer over

[@abedraya9904]

Thank you for the post, I have the same problem you mentioned at the end, after any camera cut, the hair moves like crazy, before it claims down after few seconds.
I have checked “render warm up frames” but the problem still there. Any other suggestions?

[@4413Media]

I would render each camera shot separately and assemble in a NLE. I would render enough frames for the soft cloth to settle.

[@abedraya9904]

@@4413Media Thank you for your reply, it seems the only solution