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Beginners guide to using Daz characters in unreal engine 5.5 and 5.6

milliethegreatmilliethegreat Posts: 423
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Can somebody give me a step by step beginner's tutorial for importing and using Daz characters in unreal engine 5.5 and up. I want to use them as animated background characters (npcs) and as a player character that can be used in first person or third person animations. I want to use animations bought on FAB (UE marketplace) I'm new and never tried anything like this but really want to try it as I hope to make short YouTube videos at some point. 

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  • usa423_6c467e3e09usa423_6c467e3e09 Posts: 37

    I don't know this per say, but I have a feeling the maker of that plug in or bridge is in kind of a situation in that when they update the plug in and or then UE updates and things break. At this point I think I will stick with UE4.   The classic way is just exporting FBX's and importing them in UE.  But there was a plugin / bridge where you can easily export from Daz to UE.  The maker of that bridge had two videos about how to set up and use it and important information was given in them both about it. When it works it seems to work great, but does not always work or has issues here or there.

  • milliethegreatmilliethegreat Posts: 423

    I was thinking of the bridge. That's my plan. I can't find any UE 5.x videos only UE 4 videos. Anyone have any links for UE5?

  • Jay VersluisJay Versluis Posts: 268

    I have several videos that cover the process, including how to retarget other animations to transferred Daz characters. Here you go:

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPcx_LSSGfZf3aoIf4Z99OOGBHQdtkGSE

    Note that the retargeting process has funamentally changed with 5.6 and up, so this all works up until Unreal Engine 5.5. 

    Hope this helps!

  • milliethegreatmilliethegreat Posts: 423

    Jay Versluis said:

    I have several videos that cover the process, including how to retarget other animations to transferred Daz characters. Here you go:

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPcx_LSSGfZf3aoIf4Z99OOGBHQdtkGSE

    Note that the retargeting process has funamentally changed with 5.6 and up, so this all works up until Unreal Engine 5.5. 

    Hope this helps!

    I'm not using 5.6 and soon maybe 5.7 so no offense but this isn't exactly useful for me.

  • hardwire666hardwire666 Posts: 78

    milliethegreat said:

    Jay Versluis said:ee

    I have several videos that cover the process, including how to retarget other animations to transferred Daz characters. Here you go:

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPcx_LSSGfZf3aoIf4Z99OOGBHQdtkGSE

    Note that the retargeting process has funamentally changed with 5.6 and up, so this all works up until Unreal Engine 5.5. 

    Hope this helps!

    I'm not using 5.6 and soon maybe 5.7 so no offense but this isn't exactly useful for me.

     

    Actually the first video in that play list works just fine. The thing that changed with the bridge is the IK-RIgs and Retartgeter are no longer provided you have to make them yoru self. I used this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUGHf6F7IWM to do that

    Then I used Jays video to refresh me on the rest and thats it.
     

     

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  • milliethegreatmilliethegreat Posts: 423

    guess i'm screwed. i don't know anything about rigging. im not a professional animator or modeler

  • milliethegreatmilliethegreat Posts: 423

    so much for using daz characters in animations :(

     

  • milliethegreatmilliethegreat Posts: 423

    retargeting and ik bones are complicated for novices right? i'd imagine thats for proffesionals i suppose? is this a job i need to hire someone to do? if so anyone know of someone i can get a quote from? if you do kindly let me know. thanks

  • lilweeplilweep Posts: 2,768

    a) there is more than one bridge/workflow for bringing daz characters to UE5.  Besides DaztoUnreal bridge there are at least two others

    b) whichever one you do, the genesis figure will all come into UE5 as a rigged skeletal mesh

    c) a "control rig" and a rigged skeletal mesh are two different things.  you do not need to do rigging.

    d) animation retargeting to your character is literally a few button clicks as per those videos

    d) use a standard workflow so you dont need to reinvent the wheel or hire someone

    e) https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=daz+to+UE5.6

     

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