Metahuman Head Issue

Unreal Engine Questions
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Original Discord Post by plotking | 2024-09-26 19:56:38

Hi, I am working with UE5.3. I have several projects with Metahumans as Convai Base Characters. After I finally packaged one there was odd behavior not seen in the editor. When the character is talking, his head will ‘bob’ up and down. As soon as hes done talking he idles normal. It is kind of funny to witness at first, but I cannot get it to stop. If you play as Stand Alone it will also do it. It does not do it with female metahumans, nor Character Creator versions. I do have 3 different 5.3 projects I can reproduce the issue. Has anyone seen this? Any suggestions on how to fix? TIA

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Reply by k3kalinix | 2024-09-26 20:14:47

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Replying to plotking’s Message

Reply by plotking | 2024-09-26 19:56:38
Hi, I am working with UE5.3. I have several projects with Metahumans as Convai Base Characters. After I finally packaged one there was odd behavior not seen in the editor. When the character is talking, his head will ‘bob’ up and down. As soon as hes done talking he idles normal. It is kind of funny to witness at first, but I cannot get it to stop. If you play as Stand Alone it will also do it. It does not do it with female metahumans, nor Character Creator versions. I do have 3 different 5.3 projects I can reproduce the issue. Has anyone seen this? Any suggestions on how to fix? TIA

Reply by iranpower | 2024-09-27 06:01:31

Can you send a video ?

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Reply by plotking | 2024-09-27 12:41:57

Here is a sample. It does not do this in the editor. It only does this with Male metahumans. Multiple projects, multiple male metahumans have been tried.

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Reply by iranpower | 2024-09-27 13:06:38

HAHAHAHHA

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Reply by iranpower | 2024-09-27 13:07:09

i think usualy happens when u didnt set the body or heaed animation right

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Reply by iranpower | 2024-09-27 13:07:38

could u show me the body and head animation what have u assigned to them both ? and the highrachy for your character component

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Reply by freezfast | 2024-09-27 13:09:54

Hi <@1081200809414508636>, strange this issue usually happens in standalone mode, but should not be there in either packaged or editor, could you confirm if it is happening for any of the default metahumans in a new project? we need to be able to replicate the issue with one of the default metahumans in order to investigate

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Reply by plotking | 2024-09-27 21:23:51

Hi all, It behaved in a fresh project. So I went to package again in one of mine and I got a bunch of errors I never got before. They were all referencing files in the lipsync plugin\ Intermediate folder. I deleted the whole lipsync folder and replaced and all is well. It is totally possible I was copying that plugin folder around and why it happened in multiple projects. Lesson learned. Thanks again!

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