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Animate MetaHuman in Unreal with iClone Unreal Live Link

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Animate MetaHuman in Unreal with iClone Unreal Live Link

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Very good and informative tutorial from Solomon Jagwe : 


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hi. 

what can occurs this problem?



As all we know Iclone has not stable FPS. Render Movie QUE from UE 24 is set to 24 FPS. Original Camera movment crated in UE4 as you can see works correct. 
Render Method obviosuly IMG Sequence. 

Dosnt matter i link thos 2 node or not 
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I tryed many methods still the same problem.

Appreciate for help. 
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Did you untick " Reduce Keys " in Take Recorder?
Also set the UE4 Engine Scalability Settings to "Low" while recording....
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Im not using Take Recorder (anyway is UNTICKED).  I made all things Materials to Lowest , scalability to LOW, all quality to LOW. 
Sadly effect is the same. 


Im using Add Level Sequnce, (im doing job there) , then im using Render Movie Que. 
I made animation using UE controll rig of (For Face and for Body) and it works normal.
 

Any ideas please?

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So guys anyone? help will be appreciate. 

Everythinig works 100% fine till i going to Render. Render Movie Que render 100% frames but it gives weird results as u can see at my videos.

THanks for any help and have a good day !
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Maybe this helps?

https://forum.reallusion.com/419325/Tips-Tricks-for-Unreal-Engine-4?PageIndex=360




Toystorylab on Vimeo : https://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/ce44ea78-6984-47d8-9bf4-b783.png    Crassitudes (my "Alter Ego") on Youtube: https://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/fcc4df30-b3a8-40a5-a427-0735.png

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Thanks, this method actually works. (There are some weird issue that i have delete BP character etc but it works) Here is effect

Hit Film express: (Better colors but Quality sux sadly, youtube destroys or doing something bad with Coding) // Movie in my MediaPlayer classic looks amazing clean and quality is rly great.


Davinci Resolve: (I dont like this Color grading etc , screen is darker no idea why etc, quality Better)




I still cannot understand why:

a) Davinci Resolve automaticaly somehow change Color/Exposure of my Image Sequnce and the Movie its a bit darker it looks just different than in UE
b) HitFilm Express gives greater results in Outpat Movie - But later YOUTUBE destroyes the quality and this is rly sux. In older version of HitFilm i havent any problems with
coding for Youtube i newer version no matter what im doing my Qulity always sux and this is rly bad. 


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Add a Post Process Volume and use the color grading and LUTs in UE4/5 .

https://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/bc667310-2f0f-49c1-9f45-fcaf.jpg

Also auto focussing a MH can help :



And Focus as "Look At"  :


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Thanks for these great tutos.
I've succeeded to make this work except for 2 problems : 
1. exPlus key do not seem to work with metahuman
2. when doing face synch only, I can't manage to make the head move

https://youtu.be/fg3qO6IZZn0

I haven't posted my BP cause I used the ones provided in iclone metathuman kit
Any Idea how to solve these problems ?
Thanks forward, 
Cedric 



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