Hi
I have a custom head
I bring it to Audio2face
then I setup the character and extract blendshapes for it
audio2face itself gives me two files (xxx.usd and xxx_usdSkel.usd)
now I did two ways:
first way:
1.I export USD SkelAnimation (some talking animation)
2. import xxx_usdSkel.usd to unreal and it gave me rigs and mesh and morphs
3.I tried to import USD SkelAnimation and choosing the rig from step 2 but always it fails.
second way:
1.I export all of blendshapes with xxx.usd in maya and I create a simple rig for it
2.I export to Audio2face then I conect my face to its morph then export my lip animation again as USD SkelAnimation
3.again I import my fbx file with my rig.
4.I tried to import USD SkelAnimation and choosing the rig from step 2 but always it fails.
***** if when I am importing I choose metahuman archtype skeleton… the usd skeleton cache will import seccuessfully… but i dont wannat import with taht skeleton I want to import on my skeleton.
Hello @sbehrangtaheri. I’m sorry for your frustrations. Currently the import facial animation workflow in Unreal only works on metahumans. We do have a ticket opened for this to support custom characters as well. If you are ok importing the skeleton/skeletal mesh/animation all together, you can currently do that with the Unreal USD plugin. You would need to deactivate the Omniverse plugin to do this. Although, Epic’s USD Importer does not support just animation clips through USD, so it would want to re-import the skeleton each time. I need to go through the workflow myself, but you should also be able to do something through maya as well. If you get your A2F setup working in Maya… I think you need to export as json and run the script included in this tutorial. You should be able to get animation clip imports working through the FBX workflow in Unreal. We hope to have the USD import for custom characters resolved soon. Thank you!
@WendyGram I would love to get an update on this issue.
Is there a solution that allows to directly export blandshapes into Unreal (as opposed to using export to Maya as a workaround) ?
i am using the advancedskeleton for that for each animation one by one. for long time your demand is still there. We can export and import metahuman facial animations batch quick and easily, we can’t do the same with custom skeleton. 90 percent of game makers don’t use the Metahuman for main actors in game.I don’T know it’S in part of Omniverse or Unreal
