I don’t suppose you can get it to elaborate on that error?
WebGPU is very strict about it’s textures. Last I looked it was also quite seriously limited in the number of textures it can use per material.
The skin shaders use the most textures of all, so if you’re hitting texture limits, that would do it. You may have to turn off wrinkle maps and / or bake the character materials to reduce the texture load.
Thanks for the reply. There was this message on the console:
The number of sampled textures (24) in the Fragment stage exceeds the maximum per-stage limit (16).
So it sounds like texture limits is the thing, as you predicted. I did try the baked materials, but I’ll try turning off the wrinkle maps too.
I believe that Unity grabs about 8 of those texture slots for it’s own ends (shadow maps, light maps, etc…)
So if it still causes problems, for the all the skin material inspectors:
These are all shader features so they will compile to a shader that does not have these texture slots.
That should bring the baked skin shader down to using only 8 textures.
Beyond that you could also edit the shader graph and delete the entire Emission section. That will free up another texture slot.
You were absolutely correct. I turned off those 3 things and now the error is:
The number of sampled textures (17) in the Fragment stage exceeds the maximum per-stage limit (16).
So I’ll need to do the emission thing too and then (fingers crossed!) it’ll work!
It worked (deleting the Emission section from shader graph). Thanks for all your help.
I tried to import CC5 Characters into Unity with the current version, but it doesnt seem to work. The facial animations look wrong. The eyeballs and eyelashes wont stay in the correct position. This didnt happen with CC4 characters
What are your export settings?
Certain settings, such as Convert Skinned Expressions to Morphs, cause major problems with animations, usually eyes drifting and popping out. Particularly with external animations from another character.
May I ask if exporting CC4 to Unity is compatible with UMA?
What should I do?
I will first export to Blender and then drag it into Unity, but how should I convert the material?
What should I do about exporting CC4 to Unity to achieve the effect of changing clothes for characters?
Can you reply with a sentence?
Hello @Victor.Soupday !
After importing my character to an empty scene from CC5 everytime I try to open the scene in playmode in fullscreen it gives this error:
Invalid editor window of type: Reallusion.Import.UnityLinkManagerWindow, title: Reallusion.Import.UnityLinkManagerWindow UnityEditor.EditorApplicationLayout:SetPlaymodeLayout() ?
I can only solve it by changing to a different Layout eg. Window/Layouts/Default
Also I closed and then later opened CC5 again and wanted to import just a facial mocap clip motion to Unity and it imported the whole character again with all the textures and materials when I pressed “Send Motion”? Is there way to just send motion clips to Unity + decide the motion’s frame rate and range? The file sizes for even small clips are Huge! I just need the blendshape animation (and head & eyes) but it had keyframes for every bodypart!
Also, if a character doesn’t have a beard or brows, does that mean their facial animation clip can’t be retargeted to a character that does, since it doesn’t include the blendshape keyframes for the beard and brows?
Having hundreds of the same exact face blendshape keyframes for tearline, brows&beard on the same animation seems like huge waste.
Maybe there’s some way to not include them in the anim file, and some script that updates the others’ blendshapes to be exact same as the face/body skinned renderer?
(Which is what I presume CC5 and Iclone does when playing facial animation)
Anyway, thank you for the tools!
In the Realillusion Unreal tools there is way to export Metahuman facial animation as .csv file that one can import INTO CC5/Iclone8
So would it possible to export just facial animation FROM CC5/Iclone8 as .csv file TO Unity?
And then the tool would turn the facialAnimation.csv into Unity animation clip that just has blendshapes (& head rotation) keyframes?
Don’t know how to solve the retargeting though, maybe options to generate or not the beard&brow blendshape keyframes also in the animation clip? Option to not include tearline blendshapes especially would be nice
Also importing a Game Base character always comes in without subdivisions using the data link even if smooth mesh is checked on the body mesh and “SubD Current” or “SubD 1” is selected in data link settings
There is a way to retarget animations that generates tracks for the target model:
https://soupday.github.io/cc_unity_tools/adv-usage.html#animation-retargeting-animretarget
But it doesn’t extract select parts of the animation clip.
Whilst converting a CSV file to unity animation clips wouldn’t be that difficult. Getting the CSV file from iClone is the problem there, as there is no standard exporter for that, that would need a custom exporter.
Edit: Though thinking about it, if was just the blend shapes, that would be easy enough, but if you want to include bones: bones need an avatar to generate mechanim compatible animation clips. Which really complicates things.
It would be easier to have a system that just exports the full motion from iClone and then in Unity extracts the wanted parts of the clip and delete’s the rest, leaving just one extracted animation clip. That clip can then be used to retarget to any character.
I’ve not really looked at UMA, so I don’t know. But if you’re sending to Blender first using the pipeline, you can use the pipeline export function from Blender to Unity, and the Unity pipeline should recognize it.
To do that you must remap the bones in the clothing object’s skinned mesh renderer to the new character skeleton. That must be done via script, as the bone list is hidden in the inspector.
Maybe something along the lines of:
(I’ve not used it, but that’s the sort of thing you’re looking for.)
That would be fantastic!
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Is sending just motion possible in the current version of the Datalink without exporting a whole character with all the textures first? After that it works, but I need to import new motions for the characters I imported earlier. I tried matching the LinkID’s of an already imported character but it didn’t work
It was meant to, but I messed up that logic…
You could try latest commit to the CC/IC plugin: https://github.com/soupday/CCIC-Unity-Pipeline-Plugin/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
The send logic is fixed there. If there is no matching character it will just drop the motion fbx into the DataLink files. You will need to configure it as Humanoid animation type as since there is no matching character it doesn’t quite know what to do with it.
