Give Custom Character from Mixamo animations for emotions and nothing else

Hello! I’ve been trying to get a custom character i’ve downloaded from mixamo to display various emotion animations based on how it’s feeling during conversation. I’ve rewatched the " AI Characters with Custom Avatars in Unreal Engine" tutorial and read through the forums and I haven’t been able to find help with this unfortunately. I am not interested in adding lip syncs, character head tilts, eye tracking, or any sort of movement. I just want the emotions to play animations and to also have idle animations and listening animations. I’ve been using the reallusion template like the tutorial suggested, but all I’ve been able to get to happen is my character starts with an idle and then his head rotates a weird angle and none of the talking or emotion animations play.

Not sure if there’s a way to ‘bypass’ all the other functionality such as lip syncing and looking at the player, which I feel like may be the potential root of the issues.

Thank you for the help

If it’s worth anything I have a message at the top telling me that I haven’t added the lipsync component to my character.

here’s some pictures of my setup. thank you



I think your issue is that those body animations are targetting the face mesh.