Bring Your Rigged Characters from Cinema 4D into Unreal Engine // Creating the Unreal Preview
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- I'm here with a full-length sample tutorial from my upcoming course, "Creating the Unreal."
I will guide you through the process of taking FBX animations, such as #Mixamo data, from #Cinema4D to #Unreal Engine.
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btw your videos are exactly what i look for in tutorials, shows example at beginning, extremely easy to understand, quick and do the point, friendly. everybody elses unreal videos i swear are way too complicated and long. youre helping me learn this program quickly i appreciate you
That's exactly why I approach this the way I do I can't tell you how many times I've wasted time on here trying to figure something out and people don't explain it easily or they skip steps so I always try to keep that in mind when I'm recording.
@@JonathanWinbush Great info! Quick question for you. I am trying to figure out how to export my character with both the t or a pose with the animation as an FBX file within unreal. Right now I am stuck because it seems like I can only export the individual pose or the individual animation from unreal as an FBX but I need them both combined in unreal and exported as an FBX. Any help would be appreciated. Love your videos by the way. Cheers
@@AdamSmith-zq5sr You can try the method I show in one of my latest tutorials here ruclips.net/video/-upx7T4g_vM/видео.html
okay that one last step where you select animation and select the animated file, that is key. i missed that part and ended up spending like 8 hours debugging thinking i was going crazy lol. thanks again man youre the only dude on the internet with the answer you pushed the culture forward for all of us.
Dang I hate when i spend all day trouble shooting then the answer ends up being so simple
I really cannot thank you enough. Let me buy you that cup of coffee!!!
Nice glad it helped! I have a few more character tutorials on here as well.
@@JonathanWinbush can we import animation create with xpresso using datasmith
Holy shit man i couldn't figure out how to export mixamo files to unreal so what i did was animate them in cinema, export them as an alembic file and import in unreal. It was really a destructive workflow and i'm really thankful for this. Really excited for the new course man, it's really gonna help lots and lots of people.
Yea man I knew some people was having issues with this so thats why I decided to make this portion free from my course. In my course I also show how to go right from Mixamo into UE as well.
Holy fuck just saw this! Two legends
Haha, appreciate it! 😂🤙🏿
Really excited for this course man. Love the pacing of how you deliver the info.
Thank you I try to make it as easy to follow as possible
Can't wait for your course ! Love it
Thank you. Don't miss my talk at IBC this Wednesday as well!
Damn man, deadmau5 💯
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Thanks for that video, Winbush!
You're welcome
For a very long time I could not understand why I could not create several animations in Cinema4d and transfer them to FBX in Unreal.
The skeleton constantly did not match. This was reported by Unreal.
I couldn't find what the reason was. despite the fact that the skeleton was always the same from the same model. They differed only in custom animation.
It helped me to choose FBX 7.5 2018
I couldn't even think about it, that this could be the problem.
and this is in Cinema2024 with Unreal 5.3
Thanks for the video. it helped me
Very informative Thanks 🙏🏻😸
Of course thank you 👊🏾
Damn, that mouse dude.... thats craazzzy. Fuckn love your content. i do not understand how u dont have more subs and views. literally, makes no sense.
Thank you man appreciate the support 🤙🏾
Believe me I've been grinding trying to get this channel going but slow n steady wins the race.
Waddupp waddup winbush, Do we expect to have an update on your creating the unreal course into UE5? 😊 thaanks
I have an unreal course here on my RUclips channel i put out with epic games and also just released one with school of motion last week as well 🤙🏾
Live long and prosper....
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can we have an updated tutorial pleaseeeeee
Yea I think it's time 🤙🏾
Theres this song I like from deadmou5e forgot what it's called but it was a nice tune need to look it up now... Great video Playa.. . I just made a couple of characters in MagicaVolex.. this will help me to take them into unreal.. it will be fun.. hahahahaha.
Always the best Playboy.. keep on the great work coming!!
Oh sick you use magicavolex. Is that hard to jump into?
@@JonathanWinbush you can learn magicavolex in 30 minutes hahahahaah then after, you'll get better on blocking your shapes. but for me. MagicaVolex and Voxedit are like therapy for when you have a bad day.. you know people take their stress on sketching, well, I do it playing with volexes .hahahah it might be simple but very powerful.. I love Magicavolex rendering engine. it has a sweet engine. and Voxedit has a sweet rigging system, you can do character volex animation inside of it as well.. both are fun to play with.. but Magical has this button that turns your volex into Legos shape. hahahahaah.. its fun!!...
I usually recommend this to people with kids that want to start messing with 3D.. your kids for example. am sure they'll like it..
cheers!!!
@@mae2309 Yea I looked at it before but I'm not much of a modeler so wasn't sure how easy it would be for someone like me to dive in
@@JonathanWinbush hahahaha.. it's fun to play with.. like a distress hobbie ..
deadmaus gave you a shoutout? dude youre gonna channel is gonna blow up man youre gonna be the next grey scale gorilla for unreal
Deadmau5 is the homie good dude but thank you I can only keep working hard to get on that gsg level
@@JonathanWinbush getting props for deadmau5 is huge, i'll forever be your student, keep posting amazing content you're empowering us all to survive as 3d artists this quarantine!
@@theloniuspoon Haha thank you boss I appreciate the support! Where are you from how is the quarantine holding where your at are things getting better?
@@JonathanWinbush i'm in toronto canada, i just read today that the guys who wrote houdini are from here haha i had no idea. i actually just recovered from covid but it wasn't too bad
@@theloniuspoon Oh man glad you made it through. We've had a few close calls with covid here with my son and wife working with people that got it but thankfully none of us caught it at least I dont think we did but who knows lol
NIce Brother!
Thanks my man
Hello, I followed the steps, but my character model/rig/animation was unable to import into UE5. I received a lot of error logs saying Mesh [geometry has no name] in the fbx file is not referenced by any hierarchy node. I only found his belt and tongue are imported....what can I probably do?
I'm not sure i don't use cinema for characters anymore I just use iclone it's easier
Hey, this was an amazing tutorial as usual. I'm having an issue with export/import in this workflow. My animations are coming in with the mesh correctly aligned but the animation imports with the axis wrong. The figures are coming in aligned to the Z axis instead of the Y axis. Is there a reason for this and how do I fix it? Thanks.
Maybe check some of the other character tutorials I have on my channel maybe theres step you might see that helps. It's hard for me to say without being there through the process but I do have more recent videos on my channel might help 🤙🏿
how to import car rigging from C4D into Unreal Engine 5 !!
thanks alot fam but will i be able to use the live link face cap using these steps or will i have to use the daz to unreal method
I dont currently have an iphone so I've never done facial capture
any chance you could do an updated tutorial with a custom character rig like a car rig with animation data from c4d to unreal
I honestly wouldn't know where to start as I've never done a car rig before
Awesome
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Great video as usual, one thing though. My mixamo characters come in distorted. Unreal suggests "export smoothing groups" but I don't see an option for that in C4d. They also suggest to adjust the mesh but that doesn't help much.
You followed the same way I did it here? Only thing I can think of is are you using a mixamo character or your own model?
@@JonathanWinbush It's a mixamo character. At first I put one together in fuse and sent it to mixamo but then I just used a stock mixamo character. There might be one thing. When I open the fbx in C4d it turns up as a list of polygon objects which parent poses and skins. Under these is the mixamo rig. At 4:44 on the tut you only have 2 objects listed, Ch06 and the rig. How did you bring the fbx into C4d? Thank you in advance.
I just drag the fbx into cinema 4d and the import options pop up from there
@@JonathanWinbush Thank you. I'll try that.
For sure man good luck 👊🏾
Can we import animation create with xpresso using datasmith ?
I don't use Xpresso at all so I haven't tested it but if you can bake the frames I don't see why not
Can this work with geometry constrained to the joints, rather than bound?
It's worth a try
Does this same method work for unreal engine 5?
I just did an updated UE5 video here ruclips.net/video/-upx7T4g_vM/видео.html
I am using a t-pose figure from MIxamo then using the mixamo rigging info I pose individual 'joints'.
But I am unable to make the rigging changes stick so I can export the fbx file with posed figure, it always undoes all my rigging work and I only get a T POSED figure exported...sigh any thots? ty!
This tutorial is pretty old I havent used c4d for characters in a bit just been easier to use iclone
@@JonathanWinbush ty will give it a try!
hey @winbush is there a way to get c4d rigs that have used c4d deformers into unreal?
When all else fails I usually try exporting as alembic files
i'm living in cambodia , i wanted you to be my teacher, Cam you help me sir.
I'm sorry I don't do private sessions
Is deadmaus a motion designer now?!?
He's always done all his own work he's a c4d guy but recently been jumping into unreal as well
@@JonathanWinbush oh wow... i never knew that l .. thats pretty awesome lol
Yea mau5 is sick with he started off as a print designer i believe
@@JonathanWinbush thats really cool that u got to work with him. Dude makes some dope music.
great bro 👆👆👆👍👍👍
Thank you brother man 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾
@@JonathanWinbush your welcome 🙏
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