Custom Clothing + Physics + MetaHuman + Mocap in UnrealEngine
This week I explored one of the big challenges that Epic's MetaHumans faces; how to dress the avatars in custom clothes, instead of the current (and future) library items. And make them move...
Unfortunately for many this is not very accessible - there is no direct path from Marvelous Designer to UnrealEngine yet - and I don't think there will be soon. Especially regarding more complex layered outfits combined with collisions.
The clothing process currently requires knowlegde from the gaming industry and involves: retopologizing the Marvelous garment, attaching the optimized garment to the MetaHuman bones and painting weights, and replacing the demo garments with custom ones in MetaHuman's blueprint.
Regarding physics I did 2 things:
1) I used UE's native cloth tool to paint on the weights
2) I was able to import Mocap data from iClone - which was retargeted to the MetaHuman bone structure. This enables usage of any Mocap file.
Below is a screencapture from UE's realtime editor, showing the result of the above. Note: the demo'd garment is a rough tech tryout and needs lots of tweaking, so don't mind some glitches.
I'm seeing a lot of potential for combining these techniques - feel free to share you ideas or questions!
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