UE4 Muscle system for Animation (Maya to UE4)

Svalinn

Hi everyone !
I actually rig a character for a personnal project. I want to explore all thing around animation on a game engine. I Actually work like a 3d animator rigger for a video game company at Montreal.

Do you have some source or video for import muscle system from maya to Unreal engine 4 ?

thank's every one, i gonna share my entire project on this forum soon.
Cheers,
Svalinn

kizikay

I was actually trying to find an answer for the same question. 
I found a recent video, where it is done, but not sure exactly how. My only guess is to use blendshapes..

Svalinn

but people say that to heavy for a game engine. I actually search a way with more optimisation. 
I found this video with I guess driven key animation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh9aXFJm2A4

kizikay

This is not from the engine though... It is just muscle setup which we have no problems with. Problem is making it work in the engine.
Blendshapes, although a little tedious, work fine as long as you only use them for extreme deformations. Obviously it also depends on scale of your project.
Anyway, this is video i was talking about. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvmI7Ejp370

he seems to be using custom bones or somehow converted muscles into bones. Either way it looks like relatively small amount of additional objects compared to those who offer converting muscles into helpers or points