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Try Switching to the animation workspace (upper left drop-down), and it should appear in the menu. There is also a MASH tab on the shelf that has a button for 'switch Mash geometry types. ' If none of these is available, go to the menu, Windows>setting/preference>Plug-in Manager, search for Mash, and make sure Mash.mll is loaded.

You can manually input your values without using the slider, as I did here at 6:55 . But you should convert your mesh into instances before doing so to save memory space on your PC; otherwise, Maya will crash.

I don't understand. Do you mean face controls?

@@Darius.K_Gitonga yes

They will remain the same. I haven't modified them. This tutorial is mainly about creating the body controls for both Metahumans and custom Metahumans made with Metapipe.

Hi I am working on a premium tutorial for that. I will inform you guys when it comes out.

Glad you found it useful. Unfortunately I can't share the character model.

So moving everything to Unreal but with Alembic Caching or just a Custom Character but I do everything else in Unreal?

@@Darius.K_Gitonga it would be very good to see this procedure, with a custom character you imported and then finalized in unreal (importing everything in unreal and see it working with this process)

Hmmm noted I will look for a process, if it works I will make a video about it.

@@Darius.K_Gitonga would be incredibly useful 🙂 basically creating animations and having a functional metahuman with your custom low/mid poly character

Sorry for the late reply. The control orientation is okay it's just visually wrong. There 2 ways you can fix it, The first is you can right-click on it and select 'control vertex' and orient it the way you want it to be just like this video ' ua-cam.com/video/1zR1bYDy1Wo/v-deo.html ', if it still doesn't feel right you can also change the pivot orientation with 'D' while it's selected. The second method is a bit complicated I learned this from using Zootools, you can group then unparent the control from the chain make sure the joint it controls stays with the rig then orient it, freeze transformation then parent the control back in without the group. Zootools has a button for that but the first method is easier.

@@Darius.K_Gitonga That was actually a pretty quick response. I'm gonna try that. Thanks a lot, keep on the good stuff. :)

You're welcome.

Am not sure if it's possible without adding a Spawn Actor node to support another decal and even if you do it will practically spawn on the previous decal position. Maybe with another transform node you might offset the spawn of the second so it appears in a different position and so on, but I will have to check on that.

True that's why I am planning when I get time, I can remake some of these tutorials for Blender but until then am helping my fellow Maya users because Maya is my default animation software.

@@Darius.K_Gitonga Are these tools/similar tools available for Blender? I know one Blender Addon called "MetaReForge" which can be used to Customize Metahuman. Are you going to do tutorials on some addon or are you going to do it manually?

@@IamSH1VA Advanced Skeleton is not available in Blender but I will have to do my research for an alternative plugin for Blender that is also free and easily automates the creation of controls.

You're welcome

@@Darius.K_Gitonga Btw I saw another video of yours where you extract facial animation from a movie clip and applying on MH animator. It looked cool. Any plan on making videos on it?

Am planning to make a video about it soon

@@Darius.K_Gitonga Eagerly waiting!

@@Darius.K_Gitonga Waiting, waiting….

Hi the process should be the same as 5.3 & 5.2 but here is a tutorial that will help ua-cam.com/video/hZ2mkcd4C7M/v-deo.htmlsi=eMQuhrgCgPwWpXwl

Hi I am planning to do a video about it soon

@@Darius.K_Gitonga plese make it detailed video soon!!

Probably when I get the time I can research ways of recreating some of these tutorials for Blender

@@Darius.K_Gitonga that be appreciated, but maybe we should just all end up doing everything in Unreal for now on

Thanks. I have updated my description now that you asked.

Sorry for the late reply but have you tried updating your Advanced Skeleton plugin? You can find the option under the about section of the plugin.

@@Darius.K_Gitonga Yes and that helped. I forget to remove my comment. Thanks!

Your comment will help others. You're welcome!

Hi I am planning to do a video about it soon

I have the MetaPipe workflow copies metahuman deformation which is good for realistic characters. Advanced skeleton face rigs are good for stylised characters but they also have additional tools that ease the process of creating blendshapes and wrinkle maps.

I saved the file and it was saved! I am a student studying Maya in Korea! Thank you for the great video

@@coooooootton I would also recommend setting the project via File>Set Project and File>Project window to create folders where project assets and textures will be stored.😄

@@Darius.K_Gitonga If you increase the number of points on the grass, small white spots will appear as you increase it, what kind of phenomenon is this? And can you fix it?

Hmmm that's interesting I haven't experienced an issue like that using Mash networks, it could be a bug but I don't know how to fix it. If you manage to get a solution please comment below to help others who come across the same problem.

Thanks

Hi Grumbledookvid, Sorry for the Mega delay on this reply but I hope this helps other people too. On the Spline Sampler node, some settings can help, If you're using subdivision Mode you can increase Subdivisions Per Segment or You can switch the mode to Distance and reduce Distance Increment. Although the PCG decals don't exactly curve and do overlap this is the best solution I have found. You can use this photo as a reference. imgur.com/a/W5Eibr8

@@Darius.K_Gitonga I see - thanks so much for the detailed reply!

You're welcome

Hi Jeronimo, I have worked with both blender and Maya but currently i use maya as my default animation software. Thanks for the sub bro 😁

You are welcome my friend. If you have any other questions related to Unreal or Maya just comment down.

I want it condensed, but not touching each other!

To be honest I had to research for this one and do some tests. I believe there are two ways you can achieve the results you're looking for. The first method is by using Mash Distribute and Distribution type: Mesh but instead of scattering you can choose Voxel the issue with this is that you will need to increase the amount of Voxel Size in order for it to fold nicely on bumps or hills and it also looks generic so you definitely need to tweak it with the Randomiser Node. The other solution which I also recommend is using the World Node which has a Cluster option that has an even disruption, All you need is to set up the Cluster Mode to Map Based (connect the ground to the Map setting Input Mesh) reduce the Collision iteration to 0 (preventing the instances from speeding too far) you can also use Randomiser node on top of it to add some naturalism. Some other options i found were using the Dynamics Node (to simulate collusion for even spacing) but that crushed Maya twice so i don't recommend it. I hope this answers your question If you manage to find a better solution you can post here to help others who might have the same question.

Yes if in any case you get issues its preferred to add a map helper (the map helper being your ground mesh). If it is still not visible confirm whether your texture map is readable by Maya e.g Png,jpg,tiff etc and also confirm if maya is in the right axis (Y is up)

Thanks