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Fair. In the new year, I’m hoping to get going on new sets of videos for beginners as well as other videos for more experienced users. The changes between the 5.4 and 5.5 versions of Motion Design warrant new videos anyway. In the meantime, enjoy the holidays and New Year’s and feel free to share any other suggestions or requests in the comments so I can prioritize future topics based on questions. Have fun!

@@PixelProf Thx for the reply. So can you enlighten this UE5 MD beginner on how the sphere is rotated within motion design please? As per your video example :) Thx

@@silver10188 If you combine the Automotive Materials and add in the two, free “Modular Sci-fi Season Starter Bundles” you’ll have a LOT of great materials and meshes to work with for motion graphics. Here are links to the sci-fi bundles… “Season 1”: www.fab.com/listings/86913335-3c75-42bf-8404-54fe9d9d7396 “Season 2”: www.fab.com/listings/cb3c4494-4060-4a80-b079-e46936cb8dd0

These days I prefer to use a Blackmagic Ultimatte, but for this video, I was using this approach to keying within Unreal: ua-cam.com/video/eXXvN4w7Lm4/v-deo.html

Cool idea, but these effectors are only setup to work with Cloners specifically. My guess is that there may be a way create some kind of influence-er blueprint actor that could influence a Chaos or Niagara sim (Cloners themselves are really Niagara under the hood) to do something like this, but I haven’t dig into Chaos or Niagara yet.

I’ve used BlackMagic SDI output with UE 5.4 and 5.5. Just using the one that is installed standard by default with the engine. Used with Quad 2, Duo 2 and SDI 4k versions of the Decklink. Have you checked that you’re on the latest BMD Desktop software and firmware for the boards?

@@PixelProf Yep latest software and firmware. Unsure what's going on. Tried to output media capture to disk and can see the camera movement in the stored PNGs so the media capture works fine. I also tried playing videos over the SDI out and works, and camera feed works fine in UE4.2 and lower. All tried on a clean project each time. So seems there's something wrong with the BMDMedia plugin communicating properly with the decklink 8k in UE 5.3 and up. I could only find one forum post on this with no replies. Super strange

Oh wow, so you mentioning firmware got me thinking and I unsinstalled latest Desktop Video 14.3 and installed the one before, 14.2.1 and that did the trick! I can now get a proper feed output from latest UE 5.5. Seems there's an issue in 14.3

@@ImtiazAli-in7gk You’ll use the Quixel Bridge window inside Unreal Engine to bring the MH into your project. This video shows an older version of the process using an external-to-engine version of Bridge, but today, Bridge is built into the engine and can be opened within Unreal Engine through the Window menu…. ua-cam.com/video/W7HAXCSFXO8/v-deo.html

You can still use the Library page of the Epic Launcher, and also, you can install the Fab plugin to the engine (you can find it in the Library page of the Launcher by searching the “Fab Library” section at the bottom of the page under your projects). The Fab plugin allows you to bring assets into your project directly from Fab’s cloud server without leaving the editor.

@@PixelProf Thanks and keep going!!!

Correct. This should work without downloading the full engine source from GitHub.

Here's a link to the full play list this video is part of. If you follow from the beginning, you'll see how to choose, edit and blend between different animations on Unreal's sequencer timeline. Hope this helps..... ua-cam.com/play/PLWXvQZSGgrsPWelT3eigO5UGjyVF405iw.html&si=Ah9Ex4pNzmmwefi1

@ okay thanks for letting me know

Maybe skip the metacarpals in the IK rigs that are used by the retargeting rig. This Should result in the metacarpals just following the hand motion.

No plugin needed. It's "vanilla Unreal" in at least versions 5.4 and 5.5. It works with Static Meshes and Skeletal meshes, but it the button doesn't appear for Motion Design dynamic shapes/geo and may not appear for other dynamic assets and actors.

@@PixelProf weird , dont have that in 5.5 - no matter what static mesh /material inst

UPDATE! ... Activate the "Virtual Production Utilities" plugin (included in UE 5.4 & 5.5) if you're not seeing this option. (I didn't realize this was being activated on my new projects )

@@PixelProf Ahhh ! now it works - thanks

@@PixelProf or add the virtual camera plugin

yes, it's not supported on mac yet; but i found a video of an architect who apparently got it working with this emulator called crossover [by codeweavers]. video is below, but tech support at crossover told me you still need a high-end machine to make it run, and he didn't know if there might be any glitches. luckily, the team at unreal is trying to get a mac version of raytracing [what they call path tracing] released soon, hopefully next year. by the way, if you buy crossover before midnight tonight, you can get a sizable cyber monday discount! and the good news is, you don't need to install windows at all. it doesn't work for everything, but not bad for the $22 discount price. if you don't decide to buy it today, you can do a 2-week free trial to see how you like it; but then no discount later. i'm getting a new M4 Pro tomorrow, so i don't know if it's gonna work on mine yet, but if you want, i'll keep you in the loop on what happens... ua-cam.com/video/0qjEGMFkenQ/v-deo.html

It works, pretty much the same as with Shogun Post. Used it a few times now and it's helpful since that means you don't have to re-apply the auto skeleton to all the takes in post after you've already got it "built-in" to all the takes once it's been loaded into Live.