I think almost anyone who's managed a team will agree with most of what you're saying - where opinions will differ is over where it is beneficial to the business to make the sort of investment you describe vs just quickly hiring someone who can do a good enough job. For me personally - if I can reasonably expect a hire to…
I've been using Sequencer for exactly this. With UE5 there are significant improvements with Sequencer and ControlRig. If you're limited to using UE4, you can still pull off results like this even without setting up raytracing project settings. Feel free to check out my portfolio link below. The most recent posts…
Try this, when you import original weapon to 3dsmax delete everything but the pivot, then attach your weapon to it. Then the default material will change.
Figured it out, added a point to the heel helper and then moved the pivot point to the center of the knee, then linked the new point to the heel helper.