Mixamo is an Adobe library of Characters and Animations that are free to use. It is quite extensive and for learning purposes it’s definitely enough to do the job. Follow these steps to download a character and an animation to use in Unreal. STEP 1 – LOGIN or Create account Go to Mixamo and either … Read more
MAKING MYSELF IN METAHUMAN CREATOR I’ve been lucky enough to have early access to the Unreal Metahuman Creator and I’ve made myself! Of course she needs a lot more wrinkles which I couldn’t find any exact options for. None the less, not a bad start. HOW TO GET MY METAHUMAN INTO UNREAL To … Read more
So in your Hololens app you can add UX buttons pretty easily. I’m going to do something super simple and set up 4 buttons that are going to change the colour of an interactive cube. STEP 1 CREATE CUBE BLUEPRINT WITH FUNCTIONS In your Content Window select Add/Import >> Blueprint Class >> Actor … Read more
Holy Moly Metahumans RUN on the Hololens 2! It’s just a start, lighting needs fixing and the hair quality is low, but you can see the Metahuman in the Hololens 2 and it looks pretty ace. I’m just streaming it to the HL2 headset straight from UE at the moment. I haven’t managed to … Read more
STEP 1. Live Link Face So before you do anything else, you need to go and download the Live Link Face app by Unreal Engine. Make sure your computer and phone are connected to the same wireless network. Open Live Link Face and go into the settings (cog icon top left) and … Read more
Again I am following the Microsoft tutorial, just adding in extra screen grabs to help solidify the process in my mind. For the original tutorial, look here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/develop/unreal/tutorials/unreal-uxt-ch4 Spawning Hand Interaction Actors I’m not going to tell you about the kinds of hand interactions you can do in Hololens 2 because I’m assuming … Read more
Again I am following the Microsoft tutorial, just adding in extra screen grabs to help solidify the process in my mind. For the original tutorial, look here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/develop/unreal/tutorials/unreal-uxt-ch3 Add The Session Asset To use a session, you need an ARSessionConfig data asset to work with. To create one of these go to your Content … Read more
Again I am taking instructions straight from a section in Microsoft’s Chess Tutorial. But I am just adding in a few extra pictures because I am a visual learner and this really helps me solidify what I’m doing in my head. So some people might find this quite slow and hand holdy, so sorry, maybe … Read more
Adding plugins to your project is pretty straight forward as long as you know what folders you need to copy and where to. Go to your root project folder and create a Plugins folder if there isn’t one already Unzip the zip you downloaded for the UXTools Navigate to the Plugins folder in the unzipped … Read more
YOU have everything downloaded, now what? Launch the Unreal Engine 4.26 from the Epic Games Launcher. In the Select or Create New Project Window, select Games in the New Project Category section and then hit Next Next select a Blank Template and then hit Next And in the Project Settings … Read more