Running Metahumans on the Hololens 2 reliably was a little more complicated than I thought it would be, but once you get the hang of the method it’s pretty easy. We’ll be running the program, in our case Affinity on our PCs and using the Hololens Holographic Remoting app to stream Affinity to the headset. … Read more
I needed to set up an Event Dispatcher in an Actor BP to call a function in my Level Bp so here are the steps you take to do this. There were posts around about DO NOT DO THIS, but I have a very simple file and all the level is doing is setting up … Read more
I struggled over this for a while and then found the answer. Say you have a Blueprint and within your BP you have a widget. If you want to call a function that’s in your widget from your blueprint, then it’s slightly more complicated than just dragging the widget component into your function from the … Read more
Before you read through this tutorial, I’m assuming you’ve already linked up your iPhone Live Link app to Unreal and had a bit of a play with it. If not, then I’d suggest going through my Set Up LiveLink with your Metahuman tutorial first to get it working. Also I am researching all things Metahumans … Read more
To start using Live Link with your Metahuman there are just a few things you need to do. Add Plugins to Unreal Add the following plugins to your Unreal file. ARKit and ARKit Face Support Live Link You’ll need to restart Unreal so go ahead and do that. While it’s starting up you’ll need to … Read more
In my research project with Lucy Bryant of the UTS Speech Pathology Department we are seeing how viable it is to use Epic Unreal’s Metahumans in combination with the Hololens 2 for therapy. Previous apps that have run on headsets, while intriguing and interesting for patients, have had the feedback that the ‘uncanny valley‘ feeling … Read more
I tried watching so many tutorials on how to successfully retarget animations from Mixamo to my Metahuman and none of them helped. Eventually I realised that it was a two step process. Step 1 – retarget Mixamo to the UE4 Mannequin. Step 2 – retarget from the UE4 Mannequin to my Metahuman. Now to start, … Read more
When I first started importing my Metahuman into my Unreal file and pixel streaming it to the Hololens 2, it would crash seemingly randomly. If I had my Metahuman in front of the PlayerStart on load, then it crashed instantly. If I had my Metahuman load behind me and I had to turn to look … Read more
ASSIGN CONTROLS TO TRIGGER ANIMATIONS Now I want to trigger the different animations based on the keyboard input, so to do that I need to set up some input controls in the Project Settings. So go to EDIT > PROJECT SETTINGS And then scroll down to INPUT and then we are going to … Read more
STEP 1 IMPORT CHARACTER AND ANIMATIONS First just drag and drop your downloaded character .fbx into the Content Browser window in Unreal. Just ensure that Convert Scene Unit is selected as you do so, then click Import You should see all the elements layout out as such in the Content Browser Similarly … Read more