Bring in animations from UE character

Omniverse Connections & Data Exchange Omniverse Connectors
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Thanks DaneTrain and the mystical robot colleague - for you latest twitch:

I realized that I have been focusing almost entirely on camera issues, and that is just a little detail in your big vision about Omniverse Machinia, you want people to use all connectors and go on to characters.

You had a vision of fire dance! I have made one dance movie:

It has been screened at movie theater in 4K here in Helsinki, as part of dance movie festival Loikka. So I know many of these fire girls & other dancers :P and I can ask them to join again if we do a massive motion capture music video. I could mix and match real footage and Machinima rendered character animations & environments.

To start, I found this lovely character:
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/paragon-phase

I got the basic “Phase” exported to Omniverse. Paragon_Phase/Content/ParagonPhase/Characters/Maps/Phase.umap:

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Then I found this:
Paragon_Phase/Content/ParagonPhase/Characters/Heroes/Phase/Animations/Ability_R_Alt_Loop_Additive.uasset
And if I export that to Omniverse, I got the animation in:

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How cool is that!? Once again Machinima suprized me and mad my day!
But how can I get more of these animations from the UE to this same USD project in Machinima, so I can arrange more movements in timeline?

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We are working towards using the Machinima USD schema for animation clips when we export from Unreal, but we’re not there yet.

As for getting more of these animations from UE, I haven’t tried this yet, but can you setup a level in UE with a bunch of skel meshes, all referencing a different animations that autoplay? If you export the level as USD you should have all of USD animations in an Animations folder. I think we also support right-click “Export to Omniverse” for animation uassets too if you want to try that.

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Thanks for this workaround Lou. For now, I use cc3 characters, they are so much better to work with.