

If you already understanding the concept of “rigging” and how 3D animation works, you can skip this part. Don’t worry, the concept is fast and easy to explain. If you’ve never done any kind of 3D animation, I encourage you to read this section. This devblog will concentrate on animations that come with the starter projects and other animations in the Unreal store. I will show how to make it so that my Daz3D figure can use any animation that was built for the “Epic” Skeleton as well as any of the Mixamo animations. I will not be creating my own keyframes or using keymorph based animations - at least not today. I’ll be using bone rigs with previously created animations.

Like skinning a cat, there’s more than 1 way to create animations in Unreal Engine. Now that I’ve done that, I’m now going to animate it. One of the first challenges I overcame was importing a Daz3D model into Unreal Engine. And I’ve mentioned before, I’m also using Daz3D to create characters. You can read here why I chose Unreal Engine to make my game. I am using Unreal Engine to create a game. A Unique Sword & Shield Arena Fighter Devlog #04
