Thanks Tim, glad to hear it. That's essentially what my goal is in all my courses, save you tons of time in the learning process and share whatever I've discovered with the help of others or through personal experience. Cheers, Lucas
Hello, i am looking for metahuman character content creation but the thing is that i want use facial expression from video record . How should i do this?
this is awesome. I was stuck not sure of how to render this in maya since its only setup for viewport dx11 with wrinklemaps and shader. I did develop a iphone to maya facial mocap animation baking to be used as first pass. Now that I can bring the maya made gui animation into unreal to render this is perfect! all the skin shading and normal wrinklemaps will work. Just need to be able to bring body animation now.
Hey Lucas Ridley, this is Kaná! I am a student of some of your courses at Udemy> Your work and your experiences with Metahuman and Unreal Engine are very special. I believe that Epic Game will soon choose to give Autodesk, Psychology among other a headache, with a auta capacity to development of Unreal, Twinmotion and other acquisitions. At Unreal you can already do a lot of 3D work, films, VFX. In this way of improvements above expectations, I only see Blender innovating wildly. Congratulations and success to your channel, I admire you a lot, even if you don't have personal proximity. It cost.
Hi Lucas, great tutorial! Wanted to know, what'd be the workflow in case I want to sculpt additional details in Zbrush and bring it back to maya. Looking forward to your response. Cheers, keep it up!
Thanks for letting me know that it doesn't work in Maya 2022 bc Im able to export to 2022 but the textures just don't wanna work at all, I'll give it a go in 2020 to see if it works properly
The only problem with this process is that when I put it in Custom mode and load up a mocap on the body inside the sequencer, the face stays at 000 in world space, does not follow the body, do you know why is that happening?
I’ve figured out the problem, need to add a track into the sequencer (selecting the body and pressing on the + ) “animation mode” and select “animation asset”. that works
Thank you for the video, really helpful! What about the same thing but for the body? I've seen the documentation for metahuman exporting into maya and the body control rig is not exported, is there a workaround to apply mocap animation in maya and send it to unreal for the metahuman body? Thanks so much!
Question, and maybe you already have a course on it: How would you export the Metahuman (full body) into Maya, put mocap on it through HIK (including head movement), and then import back to Unreal to add the facial expressions? If you already have that course available, let me know.
Hi Christopher, I don't have this exact course. I cover a little bit about mocap and HIK in my latest Maya course creating a sci-fi loop. If I do develop that workflow I'll definitely be posting about it on RUclips, but thanks for the inquiry. Cheers
Thanks for the video again. Is there a way to "add" a custom blendshape to the metahuman mesh in unreal? I want to add a couple of new blendshapes in maya and export it along with the control GUI baked fbx using your methods. is it doable to add a new blendshape to the metahuman mesh in unreal, then use the GUI fbx export method? Sound confusing right? :)
Hi, i have a question for you, after importin the character into maya, axis are changing from Y to Z. is there any option that the file import without changing the axis in maya
Great video, thank you, and I would like to ask, I animate the face capture of metahuman in Unreal Engine, but I found that it is not perfect, so I want to export the animation to maya for modification, how should I do it , did you know? Thank you very much.
When i export from bridge to Maya ,i have an error that --- Error Could not export asset with id l6xdhoCX to Maya because it does not have source assets My maya is 2020.4
I've not seen that error before but it sounds like you skipped the part of the tutorial about the export settings and choosing the source assets in Bridge possibly.
@@AnimatorsJourney very thank you and i really forget to choose source from UAsset to Source Asset in the download setting , if only download UAsset ,should delete the asset which only download UAsset and download the model again. And i also find the model i import into maya donot have cloth.
Hi Again! im trying to reverse engineer this to get the animation that comes with the metahuman of the 52 blenshapes back into maya, any idea if thats possible, im terreible at maya and having zero success on this!
Very usefull, Thanks! It´s also possible to do the same process with body animation? I see a video explaining how . But to do, you must create another skelleton in Maya. Do you know if it´s possible to avoid that and do like you´re doing with the face controls? Thanks in advance
You didn't talk at all about Y up versus Z up. I've seen MetaHumans come into Maya Z up, which is clearly an issue. I really do wish they would document this stuff better, it's like they expect everyone to just "know" how to use their tools.
I still don't understand why epic are pushing so hard to make people animate in UE, it's not animator friendly, it doesn't have the tools for it, even selecting controllers in the viewport is so painful. shame they ditched ARTv2 which was far more practical. Of course new comers and people who can't afford to have good character modelers and animators will rejoice because they think it's a good thing, instead of learning how to model or animate they'll just go for a ready to use character modeled rigged even animated in the near future and that's how you kill professions and art. Nonetheless very much appreciate your efforts into making those videos.
dear sir, can you please guide me on how to import metahuman from maya to UE4 ? I got it into maya, I sculpted a new face and now How do i get it in UE4 and apply to my metahuman ?
Hi, sounds like you don't have the set members selected correctly, hard to know exactly without more details and seeing what you're doing step-by-step, best of luck! Cheers
is there anything that needs to be done in maya before exporting in bridge? it says"export to maya successful" but it's not showing up in maya :/ (i have the plugin installed in maya, and used the proper download/export settings in bridge)
Great video, man! You will help a lot of people to avoid some headache :) I would like to know if the model that you export to may is limited to animation only. I saw that the model has no clothes and no hair in the may viewport. So, I cant export let's say as an fbx from maya, right? And the textures for the clothes and the hair is not available in maya. Is that correct?
Cheers. Grooms are specific to UE, same with clothes. Maya is meant to author the animation, as I understand it. I doubt they'll make it super easy to take the entire character to Maya, probably just not a priority, since the license for metahumans must end up in UE anyways.
Thank you for this great video, even as a newb its nice to gaze at these more difficult aspects just to understand what I'm in for. Question...by including Maya in the workflow you are better able to control certain aspects of the animation. What I'm curious about is the ability to alter (sculpt, distort) the metahumans. I was thinking you might be able to do this (sculpting) in Maya as well, but after watching your video I'm thinking that might not be the case. This would mean there really is no way to convert a metahuman into say a precision model of Abe Lincoln, correct? Thoughts?
Yes I'm wondering this also. From Epic they said that stretching the mesh beyond boundaries of their preset faces would cause the rig to break, but what if I want to sculpt just a small details to make likeness portrait and how to exprot it back to UE4?
hey, thanks a lot for the video it got me way closer than before! Its still not working tho, only the rig controls are animated in my unreal scene, not the character tho, would u know a reason why that could be? thanks a lot in advance :)!
Cheers, are you working on a blank scene. It sounds like you've got something else pointing your BP towards like a live link connection or something that would prevent the control rig from controlling the face. Try in a blank scene and don't change any other attributes.
No Blender support for metahuman, and they mentioned on their live stream there's no plan to support Blender. It's only available in Maya (and Unreal).
Which Maya version is required for running the ".ma file" from the downloaded source files ? As I can see , the dude is running 2020 version of Maya. Is there is any way of converting the UE5 Metahuman assets into .FBX for another redactors like Blender ? I think it's will be the huge pain in the a** , buying the Maya license for checking the mesh, it's would be nice marketing move ( like if u buying the Maya license, then u will earn the full rig of the Metahuman with 8K textures ) and if u are poor user - u can download or at least export the mesh to FBX with 2K or 4K res at least :\. .ma source file is pain in the a**
Have you tried getting the body to work yet at all mate? :-) I can get the body keyframes into the sequencer using your method - but the issue is that they are just completely crazy. Because the positions are so different. For example, inside maya the DEFAULT position of the hip_drv is "TRANSLATE 0, TRANSLATE Y -2.24, TRANSLATE Z 93.354". So even if I rename that, as hip_ctrl, in maya - and then import it using the right-click "Import Control Rig FBX" method, those values once assigned in the Sequencer to the "hip_ctrl" are just wildly wrong. :-) They make the hips deform vertically etc etc.
I haven't had time yet to give it a try, but I know they're planning support for it. With it still being in beta there will most likely still be issues, this could be one of them. If I can get it to work I'll make a video about it. Cheers
That’s what this tutorial demonstrates, take a metahuman from Maya to UE. Do you mean, how do you bring the metahuman into Maya without Bridge? You can’t. Bridge is free.
@@AnimatorsJourney How do you bring a Metahuman from Maya to Ue4? I've brought my character into maya, added my own clothing, now I'm trying to get it into Ue4 from maya, like your tutorial is titled. Any Ideas?
@@tamatikawha Hi Tama, I'm not sure I can explain it any better in text response in the comments than I did in this video already. It sounds like you're looking for a different tutorial: "how to bring custom modeled clothes into Unreal." This tutorial is about bringing a metahuman into unreal from Maya. They already have their own clothes in Unreal that come with the metahuman.
I hope you read it and tell me how to export part of the body MetaHumans to UE4, from Autodesk Maya. Everyone can load MetaHumans into Autodesk Maya or into UE4. Via Quixel Bridge. That's all clear. But on the contrary, uploading MetaHumans FROM Autodesk Maya to UE4 is a mystery. Please help me
Bro,i have been trying this for days even after watching this still not working,can you send me a dropbox Maya file with ada dumped in or an fbx,im frustrated
@@ayoadeabobarin522 We we discussing this on Twitter? I think I responded there with you're using Maya 2019? or 2022? I am testing here with 2020.4 so I would stick with that. Opening the .ma that gets downloaded will not work, you have to use the bridge export to maya to get the correct maya file working.
Thanks so much for this VID. Yeah, this back-forth and these gotcha moments with this "MetalHuman" UE4 stuff are just annoying. Honestly, I would rather just stay in "Maya" with this MetalHuman Rig stuff to be honest with you. And frankly, I really don't even like "Unreal Engine", I'm a straight-Up "Maya" guy, but I digress on that? But anyway, thanks so much for this Great vid on this process.
Hey, I dont want to bother you, but how could I go about importing the character back into Unreal after I added a couple custom blend shapes (Viseme expressions for use with Oculus Lip Sync)? Its a little confusing. Great video though helped me so much to import correctly into Maya
dude sweet. I literally just got meta human beta and needed to know this. Literally 7 minutes before you uploaded this.
Haha, great! I spent all weekend figuring this out so others wouldn't have to on their own. Glad it's already helpful to people :)
Not all heroes wear capes, sometimes they wear caps. Thanks dude!
Haha, thank you! It is one of my favorite caps.
silent 'e' is a ninja.
I came here to say something about heros but I'm not gonna do better than this
Loving the facial animation!! Great job on that 👏👏
Thank you!
Whoa!!!! Need this. If we ever meet, coffee is on me. Killer vid!!!
Haha, thanks!
买了你的课，特别喜欢你的授课风格，感谢你分享的这个流程
Thanks for buying one of my classes, I'm glad you like my teaching style! Best Wishes :)
This video is a life saver, thank you so much for going for the process and removing all the pain points for the rest of us.
Thanks Tim, glad to hear it. That's essentially what my goal is in all my courses, save you tons of time in the learning process and share whatever I've discovered with the help of others or through personal experience. Cheers, Lucas
Hello, i am looking for metahuman character content creation but the thing is that i want use facial expression from video record . How should i do this?
this is awesome. I was stuck not sure of how to render this in maya since its only setup for viewport dx11 with wrinklemaps and shader. I did develop a iphone to maya facial mocap animation baking to be used as first pass. Now that I can bring the maya made gui animation into unreal to render this is perfect! all the skin shading and normal wrinklemaps will work. Just need to be able to bring body animation now.
Hey Lucas Ridley, this is Kaná! I am a student of some of your courses at Udemy> Your work and your experiences with Metahuman and Unreal Engine are very special. I believe that Epic Game will soon choose to give Autodesk, Psychology among other a headache, with a auta capacity to development of Unreal, Twinmotion and other acquisitions. At Unreal you can already do a lot of 3D work, films, VFX. In this way of improvements above expectations, I only see Blender innovating wildly. Congratulations and success to your channel, I admire you a lot, even if you don't have personal proximity. It cost.
Would love to see a Master Class!
Awesome, thanks for the feedback!
Thank you so much for putting this together! Super informative and will definitely save lots of trial and error.
Thanks for watching and commenting! Glad you found it helpful :)
Thanks for the video.What about the hair and clothes in maya ? How do you get that in maya ?
SUPER helpful and informative tutorial! Nicely done :) 😉👍
im getting an error code 13291 and wont let me export. i have maya 2020 but just a trial version. would this be the reason why?
" Could not export assets. Please check log for details " How can you solve this problem?
Hi Lucas, great tutorial! Wanted to know, what'd be the workflow in case I want to sculpt additional details in Zbrush and bring it back to maya. Looking forward to your response. Cheers, keep it up!
how do you export the clothing as well?
Thanks for letting me know that it doesn't work in Maya 2022 bc Im able to export to 2022 but the textures just don't wanna work at all, I'll give it a go in 2020 to see if it works properly
The only problem with this process is that when I put it in Custom mode and load up a mocap on the body inside the sequencer, the face stays at 000 in world space, does not follow the body, do you know why is that happening?
I’ve figured out the problem, need to add a track into the sequencer (selecting the body and pressing on the + ) “animation mode” and select “animation asset”. that works
please how do I import the mesh with the clothes in maya, it only opens the body geometry.
Thank you for the video, really helpful! What about the same thing but for the body? I've seen the documentation for metahuman exporting into maya and the body control rig is not exported, is there a workaround to apply mocap animation in maya and send it to unreal for the metahuman body? Thanks so much!
Question, and maybe you already have a course on it: How would you export the Metahuman (full body) into Maya, put mocap on it through HIK (including head movement), and then import back to Unreal to add the facial expressions? If you already have that course available, let me know.
Hi Christopher, I don't have this exact course. I cover a little bit about mocap and HIK in my latest Maya course creating a sci-fi loop. If I do develop that workflow I'll definitely be posting about it on RUclips, but thanks for the inquiry. Cheers
Thanks again! Love the Lucasfilm hat!
Can I get the data info of the skin if I download it on bridge? Back to maya.
is there a way to remove blendshape history from the rigged meta human mesh
Thanks for the video again. Is there a way to "add" a custom blendshape to the metahuman mesh in unreal? I want to add a couple of new blendshapes in maya and export it along with the control GUI baked fbx using your methods. is it doable to add a new blendshape to the metahuman mesh in unreal, then use the GUI fbx export method? Sound confusing right? :)
HI! Can you tell me, where are brows in maya? how turn them on?
Hi, i have a question for you, after importin the character into maya, axis are changing from Y to Z. is there any option that the file import without changing the axis in maya
Great video, thank you, and I would like to ask, I animate the face capture of metahuman in Unreal Engine, but I found that it is not perfect, so I want to export the animation to maya for modification, how should I do it , did you know? Thank you very much.
When i export from bridge to Maya ,i have an error that --- Error
Could not export asset with id l6xdhoCX to Maya because it does not have source assets My maya is 2020.4
I've not seen that error before but it sounds like you skipped the part of the tutorial about the export settings and choosing the source assets in Bridge possibly.
@@AnimatorsJourney very thank you and i really forget to choose source from UAsset to Source Asset in the download setting , if only download UAsset ,should delete the asset which only download UAsset and download the model again. And i also find the model i import into maya donot have cloth.
@@gabeli204 how to delete the download asset?
@@木山春秋 你在Bridge里面下载模型的时候有个预览列表，列表找到那个素材点击右上角有导出，左上角有时候会出现一个X点击可以删除，或者还有种办法直接右键找到下载素材的目录直接去删掉之前的文件就可以了
@@gabeli204 非常感谢！
Hi Again! im trying to reverse engineer this to get the animation that comes with the metahuman of the 52 blenshapes back into maya, any idea if thats possible, im terreible at maya and having zero success on this!
So you imported your animation via that "Import Control Rig FBX" ?
Thank you sir! This helps a lot
Glad it helped!
Thank you ,very useful
Man thats cool! But Do you know when maya 2022 plugin is gonna come out?
Hi, why the character i exported into maya doenst have head?
Could not export asset with id 9wa1jvKn to Maya because it does not have source assets
Very usefull, Thanks!
It´s also possible to do the same process with body animation?
I see a video explaining how . But to do, you must create another skelleton in Maya.
Do you know if it´s possible to avoid that and do like you´re doing with the face controls?
Thanks in advance
You didn't talk at all about Y up versus Z up. I've seen MetaHumans come into Maya Z up, which is clearly an issue. I really do wish they would document this stuff better, it's like they expect everyone to just "know" how to use their tools.
I still don't understand why epic are pushing so hard to make people animate in UE, it's not animator friendly, it doesn't have the tools for it, even selecting controllers in the viewport is so painful. shame they ditched ARTv2 which was far more practical.
Of course new comers and people who can't afford to have good character modelers and animators will rejoice because they think it's a good thing, instead of learning how to model or animate they'll just go for a ready to use character modeled rigged even animated in the near future and that's how you kill professions and art.
Nonetheless very much appreciate your efforts into making those videos.
I 100% agree with your sentiment here. Thanks.
dude, there is no this setting
dear sir, can you please guide me on how to import metahuman from maya to UE4 ? I got it into maya, I sculpted a new face and now How do i get it in UE4 and apply to my metahuman ?
i think you can make certain geometry not selectable
Cool! Thanks for this! Where did you download the scene template for Unreal? Can you please link me to it?
Hello! When I want to export the MetaHuman I have a "Could not export assets. Please check log for details", would you know why please? Thank you!
Hi, sounds like you don't have the set members selected correctly, hard to know exactly without more details and seeing what you're doing step-by-step, best of luck! Cheers
@@AnimatorsJourney Thank you very much for your answer! I found a way :-)
So, can you also make changes to its shape and bring it back to UE?
Good tutorial, thank you! BTW, really like the style of the captions of your videos, do you make them in Premiere or AE or anything else? Thank you.
is there anything that needs to be done in maya before exporting in bridge? it says"export to maya successful" but it's not showing up in maya :/ (i have the plugin installed in maya, and used the proper download/export settings in bridge)
What version of Maya are you using? I've only tested in 2020.4
Thank you. Curious how to get body animations transferred as well. Though perhaps it’s meant to use control rig in unreal for that part.
Currently this workflow is only available for the face rig, it's mentioned in the first few seconds of the video as lower third text.
@@AnimatorsJourney Yes I'm aware. Still curious.
Great video, man! You will help a lot of people to avoid some headache :) I would like to know if the model that you export to may is limited to animation only. I saw that the model has no clothes and no hair in the may viewport. So, I cant export let's say as an fbx from maya, right? And the textures for the clothes and the hair is not available in maya. Is that correct?
Cheers. Grooms are specific to UE, same with clothes. Maya is meant to author the animation, as I understand it. I doubt they'll make it super easy to take the entire character to Maya, probably just not a priority, since the license for metahumans must end up in UE anyways.
It won’t show up I’n maya for me please help
Thank you for this great video, even as a newb its nice to gaze at these more difficult aspects just to understand what I'm in for. Question...by including Maya in the workflow you are better able to control certain aspects of the animation. What I'm curious about is the ability to alter (sculpt, distort) the metahumans. I was thinking you might be able to do this (sculpting) in Maya as well, but after watching your video I'm thinking that might not be the case. This would mean there really is no way to convert a metahuman into say a precision model of Abe Lincoln, correct? Thoughts?
Yes I'm wondering this also. From Epic they said that stretching the mesh beyond boundaries of their preset faces would cause the rig to break, but what if I want to sculpt just a small details to make likeness portrait and how to exprot it back to UE4?
I run Maya 2019 and that seems to be a conflict for bridge.i dont have Maya 2020,can you send me a fbx with Ada so i can play with. Please
maya 2019 here works fine
hey, thanks a lot for the video it got me way closer than before! Its still not working tho, only the rig controls are animated in my unreal scene, not the character tho, would u know a reason why that could be? thanks a lot in advance :)!
Cheers, are you working on a blank scene. It sounds like you've got something else pointing your BP towards like a live link connection or something that would prevent the control rig from controlling the face. Try in a blank scene and don't change any other attributes.
Great tutorial, but there is no drop down for me in importing control rig to select Metahuman Control Mappings.
Im guessing that means you haven’t yet updated to 4.26.2
@@AnimatorsJourney Thank you, that was the problem. Finally it's working now...
Any idea if we will be able to export characters + Rig + hair cards to Blender?
No Blender support for metahuman, and they mentioned on their live stream there's no plan to support Blender. It's only available in Maya (and Unreal).
Hello!
You got any way to export to blender, I need it in blender real hard.
How to export body animation from maya?
Which Maya version is required for running the ".ma file" from the downloaded source files ? As I can see , the dude is running 2020 version of Maya.
Is there is any way of converting the UE5 Metahuman assets into .FBX for another redactors like Blender ? I think it's will be the huge pain in the a** , buying the Maya license for checking the mesh, it's would be nice marketing move ( like if u buying the Maya license, then u will earn the full rig of the Metahuman with 8K textures ) and if u are poor user - u can download or at least export the mesh to FBX with 2K or 4K res at least :\. .ma source file is pain in the a**
Why does it look like garbage in Maya, and gorgeous in Unreal? Can you do a Shader/Material/Lighting match tutorial when you get a chance, please?
Have you tried getting the body to work yet at all mate? :-) I can get the body keyframes into the sequencer using your method - but the issue is that they are just completely crazy. Because the positions are so different. For example, inside maya the DEFAULT position of the hip_drv is "TRANSLATE 0, TRANSLATE Y -2.24, TRANSLATE Z 93.354". So even if I rename that, as hip_ctrl, in maya - and then import it using the right-click "Import Control Rig FBX" method, those values once assigned in the Sequencer to the "hip_ctrl" are just wildly wrong. :-) They make the hips deform vertically etc etc.
I haven't had time yet to give it a try, but I know they're planning support for it. With it still being in beta there will most likely still be issues, this could be one of them. If I can get it to work I'll make a video about it. Cheers
So.... how do you bring the metahuman from maya to UE4? without the use of Bridge?
That’s what this tutorial demonstrates, take a metahuman from Maya to UE. Do you mean, how do you bring the metahuman into Maya without Bridge? You can’t. Bridge is free.
@@AnimatorsJourney How do you bring a Metahuman from Maya to Ue4? I've brought my character into maya, added my own clothing, now I'm trying to get it into Ue4 from maya, like your tutorial is titled. Any Ideas?
@@tamatikawha Hi Tama, I'm not sure I can explain it any better in text response in the comments than I did in this video already. It sounds like you're looking for a different tutorial: "how to bring custom modeled clothes into Unreal." This tutorial is about bringing a metahuman into unreal from Maya. They already have their own clothes in Unreal that come with the metahuman.
@@AnimatorsJourney U titled incorrectly cause its exporting only facial animations into ue4 and not the whole metahuman.
Is there anyone who knows how I want to modify the Mesh Via Zbrush or Blender, then later update the mesh in Unreal Engine?
I hope you read it and tell me how to export part of the body MetaHumans to UE4, from Autodesk Maya.
Everyone can load MetaHumans into Autodesk Maya or into UE4. Via Quixel Bridge. That's all clear.
But on the contrary, uploading MetaHumans FROM Autodesk Maya to UE4 is a mystery.
Please help me
Bro,i have been trying this for days even after watching this still not working,can you send me a dropbox Maya file with ada dumped in or an fbx,im frustrated
Can you provide more specifics? What exactly isn't working?
@@AnimatorsJourney bridge gives an error message during export to maya and aborted export when i checked the exported .ma file it was headless
i ticked the right export setting
@@ayoadeabobarin522 We we discussing this on Twitter? I think I responded there with you're using Maya 2019? or 2022? I am testing here with 2020.4 so I would stick with that. Opening the .ma that gets downloaded will not work, you have to use the bridge export to maya to get the correct maya file working.
Thanks so much for this VID. Yeah, this back-forth and these gotcha moments with this "MetalHuman" UE4 stuff are just annoying. Honestly, I would rather just stay in "Maya" with this MetalHuman Rig stuff to be honest with you. And frankly, I really don't even like "Unreal Engine", I'm a straight-Up "Maya" guy, but I digress on that? But anyway, thanks so much for this Great vid on this process.
Hey, I dont want to bother you, but how could I go about importing the character back into Unreal after I added a couple custom blend shapes (Viseme expressions for use with Oculus Lip Sync)? Its a little confusing. Great video though helped me so much to import correctly into Maya
thank you
You're welcome, thanks for watching
Seems Maya 2022 version is not supported
01:23 ;)
@@AnimatorsJourney Thanks I guess I missed that, I’ll have to reinstall😌
can you upload fbx file to us to save time
Anyone have luck getting this to work with Maya 2022 yet? It's November!
not working for 2022. lmao. that answer why keep fail to export.
Blender*
Guys, first of All, if you trying do that in maya 2021 or higher, this work flow will not work. Must be maya 2020 or 2019.
The 3D Character Artist is dead. This technology eat it
Isn't that blackface?
dont know why ,but the exoport button is unclickable for me!