Pose Driver Connect Documentation#

Contents:

Overview#

UI Overview

Pose Wrangler is the Maya portion of Pose Driver Connect, a pipeline for creating RBF data for Pose Driver nodes in Unreal leveraging the MayaUERBFPlugin.

Stay Up To Date#

Updates to this tool can be found via the Unreal Marketplace here: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/pose-driver-connect.

Further Learning#

For an in depth breakdown of the RBF solver and it’s settings, check out the official tutorial on the Epic Developer Community here: https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/r04p/unreal-engine-authoring-secondary-animation-in-maya-and-unreal-with-pose-driver-connect

Release History#

2.4.0:#

New Serializer Version:

  • Bumped version number to 1.2.0

  • Driven transforms now serialize using deltas so they can be retargeted to skeletons with different driven positions

Misc bug fixes:

  • Added support for decompose matrix to take an MMatrix or a List

  • Fixed a bug where drivers that had been zero’d out would raise a driver indices error when the file was reopened

  • Added support for mirror axes to be defined for translation and orientation in case PoseWrangler is not used with Z up and -Y forward

2.3.0:#

  • Maya 2020-2024 Support

New skeleton config file:

  • Replaces the existing mirror mapping file, encompassing that data and enabling additional skeleton related data to be stored and customized.

  • New retargeting feature to support driver/bind skeleton setups.

New serialization interface

  • New serializers can be made as the tool matures, ensuring backwards compatibility and upgrade steps for previous versions

  • All current saved files prior to this update will use the 1.0.0 serializer and automatically be upgraded to 1.1.0 upon next save.

  • 1.1.0 introduces a new metadata field and stores the solver data under a new solvers field

New Pose Exporter:

  • Pose Wrangler now ships with the Pose Exporter extension, a simple to use interface that handles the exporting of poses and solver data into a format that the Unreal Pose Driver Connect plugin can interpret.

  • Pose Wrangler must be on your PYTHONPATH in order for the exporter to work, otherwise the export will fail with the exporter unable to find epic_pose_wrangler

  • Pose Exporter exports out each solver’s poses as an FBX animation sequence, that Pose Driver Connect in Unreal can use to generate AnimSequences and PoseAssets.

2.0.0:#

  • Supports scenes created with the UERBFSolverNode

  • Multiple Driver Support

  • Initial blendshape support (WIP)

  • Supports Maya 2018-2022

  • Support for custom mirror mappings to allow for rigs with naming conventions that deviate from the default UE5 conventions

  • Fully automatable via Python and MayaPy

  • Serialization/deserialization to dictionary or JSON file

  • Support for custom extensions and context menu actions

1.0.0:#

  • Supports legacy scenes created with the UE4RBFSolverNode

  • Supports Maya 2018-2022

  • Provides upgrade workflow to migrate to V2

Contributors#

  • Chris Theodosius

  • Chris Evans

  • Judd Simantov

  • David Corral

  • Borna Berc

Indices and tables#