Unreal-Guide.md

Unreal Engine Guide

Requirements

• Unreal Engine 4.27 or higher
• Ready Player Me Unreal SDK Plugin found here
  • details for import and setup are in the README
• glTFRuntime plugin found here

This guide assumes that you have already installed the Ready Player Me Unreal SDK and glTFRuntime plugins which is required for loading our avatars.

Project setup process

1. Download the animation pack

2. Open up your Unreal Engine project

3. Select the Masculine_TPose.fbx file and import it into the project (e.g drag and drop the file into editor)

   This will be used to generate the skeleton asset that our animations will use*

4. The FBX Import Options should look like this. Make sure to set the Skeleton to None so it generates a new skeleton.

   

5. Click Import or Import All

6. Select all the animation files you want and import them into Unreal Engine
   Make sure that it is using the skeleton imported from step 3!

   

7. Next find the Masculine_TPose skeleton and right click. From the menu go to Create > Create animation blueprint.

   

8. From here add the animations and setup the animator states as needed

   

Loading avatars with new animations

1. Find the RPM actor blueprint BP_RPM_Actor and either edit or right click and create a child class from it that you can edit.

   

2. Drag this Actor BP into your map

3. Select it in the hierarchy and click on the Skeletal Mesh Component from the Details panel

4. Set the Anim Class property to the Animation Blueprint you just created

5. Select the Ready Player Me Component and set the Target Skeleton to your newly imported skeleton

   

6. Set the Url Shortcode to an avatar URL you wish to load

   

7. Run the application and you should see an avatar load with the animation playing