MB-Lab Characters Workflow for Unreal Engine 4
This project is currently built for UE 4.26
Manuel Bastioni Lab is an addon for Blender which allows you to create realistic as well as anime humanoid characters which are rigged and have blend shapes (Shape Keys) for the face and body.
Features
This projects provides a clear and simple FOSS workflow to import MB-Lab characters into Unreal Engine for use with your games and movies. At the moment this project contains several modules to aid with bringing your characters to life by providing the following features and many more to come:
- Blueprints to automate foot steps events
- Lip Sync for audio (Supports both English and Phonetic lip sync for other languages, alternatively Papagayo support is available for manuel lip sync)
- Mirror character animations in Anim Graph of Anim Blueprint with root motion mirroring support
- IK for feet and seated characters
- Head and Eye tracking of objects by the character
- Support to edit morph target keyframes in sequencer in editor
- Highly customisable skin material
- Added sequencer support to edit lip sync
- Retarget Poses ready for importing animations from Mixamo and UE4 Mannequin (also can be used to retarget animations to these skeletons)
- Easy montage management
- And many more to come!
The modules provided in this project can also be used with other characters created using other tools but will need changes to support them. They are intended to aide creators who wish to make a game or movie in Unreal Engine overcome the challenges associated with character development, so that they can get into gameplay or story telling aspects sooner.
Licenses
All assets available in this project are free to use. Please read individual licenses of assets for furthur information.
Hair Material Reference: https://forums.unrealengine.com/community/community-content-tools-and-tutorials/34538-free-hair-material
Character and its textures created using ManuelBastioniLab - http://manuelbastioni.com by Manuel Bastioni is licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Shoes/Shirt/Hair/Skirt - Cadnav.com Free license (Personal and Commercial)
All media/texture/material/blueprint/code assets created by AUTHORS are released under CC-BY licence CC-BY 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Links
The substances used are obtained from https://share.allegorithmic.com
Please use the official copy of ManuelBastioni Lab included in this repository with Blender 2.79 until licensing issues are sorted out in currently maintained version over here: https://github.com/animate1978/MB-Lab
Blend project file:http://www.mediafire.com/file/23c8xlzoowcdq3q/MBLabFemale.blend/file
Community
Please join us on Discord to offer contributions, feedback, requests and suggestions. Also consider funding the project to speed up development. Don't forget to subscribe to our youtube channel to keep updated with our upcoming tutorials.