Character Creator, iClone and ActorCore provide quality characters, animations, and assets to game developers. To save time in the complicated and repetitious import process, Reallusion offers tools to automate the task of Digital Human shader assignment and characterization for Unreal Engine 4 & 5.
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CC/iClone FBX Export
With optimized export options, CC characters are automatically converted to UE5 MetaHuman or UEFN-compatible character structures. Tutorial
iClone Live Link Transfer
Send characters and animations directly to Unreal Engine—no manual export or import required. Watch your iClone animations update in real time inside Unreal. Learn More
Skeleton Mapping
CC and iClone support skeleton export optimized for both UE4 and UE5, with additional spine and hand bones ensuring one-to-one compatibility with UE5 MetaHumans, UEFN, and UE4 characters.
Auto-Retargeting with Corresponding Bind Poses
Due to bind pose differences across Unreal characters, CC and iClone FBX export now provides bind pose presets tailored for UE4, UE5 MetaHumans, and UEFN. This upgrade ensures accurate motion retargeting across all types of Unreal character animations.
Character Creator, iClone and ActorCore provide quality characters, animations, and assets for game developers. However, importing characters to Unreal Engine requires heavy and complex character setups, which includes creating and assigning shader blueprints for each individual part of the character. With the help of the Reallusion Auto Setup tool, you can save enormous amount of the time invested in your project, making the process of Digital Human shader assignment and characterization for Unreal Engine fully automated.
Auto Setup 1:1 transfers Hair Shader parameters from Character Creator/iClone to Unreal. Shader is setup to easily adjust hair color, highlights, specularity, roughness, thickness(hair alpha), and more. Hair, brow, and beard are all assigned the Hair Shader.
Eye Shader consists of different anatomical parts of the eye including iris, sclera, limbus, and pupil, (each with adjustable features and parameters). You can flexibly change color, brightness, roughness, specular, depth, refraction level, etc. In the Auto Setup 1.24 update, Eye Shader & Eye Occlusion shader blueprints were enhanced to achieve a more realistic look on the eyes. Adjustments were made towards sclera brightness, iris brightness, and eye occlusion shadow.
Get stunning renders for Digital Human skin in UE5 with the Reallusion Auto Setup tool. Digital Human Skin shader is setup to easily adjust subsurface scattering, roughness, specular and micro-normals for character skin. Parameters on different facial parts can be adjusted separately with the help of RGBA masking.
Teeth color and brightness can vary based on age, race, gender, and ethnicity. Whether you want your character to have a radiant smile with neat and glistening teeth, or ferocious creature to have intimidating and gritty teeth, anything is achievable with the help of the Teeth and Tongue shader. Ambient Occlusion properties are also provided to control shading inside the mouth cavity. Combine these parameters with the use of Character Creator morph sliders to generate variations with the best results.
Gain access to the Expression Wrinkle shader in Unreal Engine, equipped with advanced features like Flow Map and Wrinkle Constraints. Connect to iClone via Unreal Live Link or export your actors in FBX format from Character Creator to take advantage of these exciting capabilities. With this latest update, you can easily bring your virtual characters to life with even greater realism and detail.
Looking to give your CC characters flawless Metahuman Groom Hair in no time? Simply find a Groom Asset that fits your character while using Control Rig Blueprint or Live Link, then use Create CC Groom Binding to instantly snap the hair into place. Achieve limitless styles anytime! Tutorial
Automatically transfer PBR materials, including Roughness and Metallic, from CC and iClone to Unreal Engine. A library of SSS effects is available for props, allowing detailed shader adjustments while preserving the same SSS shader properties when sending props to Unreal.
Animate CC characters inside Unreal Engine with lifelike precision. Blast through final-stretch production by enlivening full-body movement and facial expressions using the familiar MetaHuman Control Rig. The universal CC standards gives Unreal developers unprecedented flexibility in character customization. Access to a vast content ecosystem makes it possible to deploy animated digital doubles, whimsical toons, biped creatures, and crowd simulations.
The iClone Unreal Live Link Plug-in seamlessly connects iClone with Unreal Engine for real-time character, light, camera, and animation control. It eliminates the need for FBX import/export and automatically sets up character shaders and skeletons. Combined with iClone’s easy tools, it enables fast creation of digital humans, including facial expressions and talking animations using intuitive puppeteering and multi-device mocap.
