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How To Make An Object Follow A Curve(Spline) Path - Unreal Engine 5 Tutorial

youtu.be/svjAHsI_lJQ

YouTube video by HugoDidIt How to Create a FINE MetaHuman #gamedev #unrealengine

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Finally made a metahuman tutorial

youtu.be/5VDcMS3UXHU

YouTube video by HugoDidIt How to Combine Shooter & Melee Combat Templates in UE5.6.1

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Made a tutorial about how to make a melee and shooter hybrid system by combining the shooter and the melee combat templates in Unreal Engine 5.6.1 😀

youtu.be/2LUfctQeYRk

YouTube video by HugoDidIt Making 3rd person shooter using Unreal Engine 5.6 FPS template

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Made a tutorial about making a 3rd person shooter using the new FPS template (Arena Shooter) that comes with Unreal Engine 5.6😀

UE 5.6 really is a good starting point for new Unreal Developers😊 imo because of the new templates

youtu.be/ZuVXp39_DOw

YouTube video by HugoDidIt I can't play guitar So I made this in Unreal 5 to play Canon Rock

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I can't play guitar So I made this in Unreal 5 to play Canon Rock

It's a custom character plays guitar solo using blueprint and control rig. It reads a single track MIDI file and figures out the rest.

youtu.be/ATzHFHokFpg

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metahuman guitar girl(friend?) getting even better
next is to improve the picking😀

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now finally!!! she can play high speed guitar solo
talking about 1/16 notes 200 bpm
I rewrote almost all the codes
including my own algorithm to generate guitar tab from MIDI

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

set "parent_folder=%~dp0"

for /D %%d in ("%parent_folder%*") do (
cd /D "%%d"
echo Processing: "%%d"

ffmpeg -framerate 60 -i image_%%04d.jpeg -c:v h264_nvenc -r 60 -pix_fmt yuv420p "%%~nxd.mp4"

cd ..
)

echo All folders processed.
pause

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Movie Render Queue
if you render all cameras and use CLI encoder for MP4 files. it will encode all pictures to One MP4 file even if there're in different folders.So I wrote this batch file. It will encode one mp4 file for each folder. put it in root folder and run

YouTube video by HugoDidIt Unreal VTuber Covers - Roar of the Double Dragon (双龍の雄叫び) - Music Automata

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It's finally there!😊
I'll call it my first Unreal Music Video
first time show piano and drums in one video
and the environment looks good

youtu.be/jwv1HKXRmiw

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Thanks to sub-levels I can move everything to a new environment easily. The only thing missing is a better way to move it in the main level.
You have to manually enter the coordinate.
That's some guess work and trial and error.
It'd be nice if we can just drag it

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if you use movie render queue. by default it will output still frames (pictures). if you want video files you can use apple ProRes plugin or install ffmpeg and set it up as a command line encoder.

I wrote a program generating curves (unreal assets) using data in MIDI files. Those curves animate the character.

As for large intervals. nothing special has been done for that specific situation.😀

YouTube video by HugoDidIt Metahuman Foot Piano with Control Rig - Unreal 5 Virtual Production Test

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final showcase of the keyboard play rig so far
gonna go back to finalize the drum play rig after this
and the band is kinda ready😀

youtu.be/r39g9nQ9qzo

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the latest version of the keyboard rig
lots of details has been added
check it out with sound on😀

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keep working on keyboard
know it's getting closer to dancing on keyboard

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fixed some bugs
refined the base pose
now I'm confident to call it ver 0.1 😆

going to make her play different kinds of guitar songs
and improve the rig when needed

but right now I'm going back to my piano rig and finalize it
so I can start to do music covers

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cant believe it's been more than a week
change log:
- refined finger movement logic for the left hand
- use separate solver for hand and fingers to get finer control
- simple implementation for the right hand. with pole vector
- body animation, guitar attachment

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finally, one foot on the ground
350 lines of code
generating 9 curves to control the left hand
using both the tab and the original MIDI file

it's just the first step
so many things can be improved. cant wait
(video has sound)

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now we are back here

at some point I realized that IK rig has it's limits
so I made my own control rig from scratch
it's a bit more complicated but I gained finer control to how it behaves

the next thing is actually making the fingers move driven by midi data

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updated the skeleton adding bones for finger tips
setup and tweaked a lot of parameters for the IK rig
now the fingers of the left hand is all controlled by the IK targets.

not perfect for sure
But I'd take it as a decent start point

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I thought I was ready to put things together
Then I realized there is no bones for the finger tips
by default the closest thing is to point the root of the last joint of the index finger to the target

I will have to make changes to the skeleton
and also others

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getting the guitar ready in unreal

I'm so glad it can import sockets from blender:
create empties and name them with "SOCKET_" as prefix
and don't forget to select empty when export

cant imagine creating 138 empties in unreal, must be painful

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I found this tuttut project on GitHub
it can convert midi to guitar tabs in text form
with the help of AI
I hijacked the code and now it also outputs a time table very similar to what I used for my drum kicking rig. It has time, string and fret data for each note.

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so I finally decided to try "playing guitar with IK rigs"
and one of the difficult things is to figure out which finger and which string to use for each note.
Fingers aside for the strings I have existing staff to tab solutions to use.
Still a long way to go😵‍💫

YouTube video by HugoDidIt Metahuman Play Drums using Control Rig - Unreal Engine 5

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Made a YouTube video about my drum kicker rig
Showing it in action followed by a brief break down

youtu.be/nKuENVRvrzM

YouTube video by MasahiroUshiyama ポリゴンモデルの関節の分割線 [肘と膝や指など一方方向に曲がる関節の分割方法]

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This topology video is godlike
youtu.be/7DAFS8sga2k

I learned a lot, even it's not in English

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as shown in the previous post
the fast motion exposes a lot of problems😵‍💫
so I took some time and refined the code
now each kick is more context-aware
(more reasonable path of the foot)

also cinematic cam is used to get some motion blur

plz enjoy with sound😊

Thank you for the reply. I checked Editor Preferences, I can only find a setting about opening new assets in the main window.
It's useful. I really needed it. But it won't affect content browser.😂

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my project is kinda weird😵‍💫
content browser will always open in a separate window
I have to manually drag it to make it a tab every time!
I went through config files and found no clue
if I delete the whole config folder it'll fix the problem
but my game is broken😂