• Use the search bar again and type “Rokoko Receiver”

  • Click and drag the "Rokoko Receiver" inside of the viewport.

    

  • Configure the Rokoko Receiver Port to match the streaming port in Rokoko Studio (14043)

    

You will need to import your character:

• Right-Click within the Content Browser and select “Import to /Game…”

• Find the FBX of your character and select the Open button.

• If your character isn’t using an existing skeleton, leave Skeleton set to ‘None’.

• Remember to turn on "Morph Targets", else the character won't be imported with blendshapes.
  

• Click “Import”.

• Once the character is imported, right-click the in the content browser.

• Right-click on the skeletal mesh of your character, highlight ‘Create’ and click ‘Anim Blueprint’
  

• • Double-click on the newly created animation blueprint

  • Create the following set of nodes:

    • Inside the anim blueprint create a"Rokoko Face Pose" node and connect it to the Output Pose.

      

      Now click on the plus next to variables and change the variable type to Name and the variable name to Rokoko Actor Name. Then drag it out into the animGraph and chose Get Rokoko Actor Name. Connect it to Rokoko Body Pose and the Rokoko Face Pose. Then click on the Rokoko Actor Name and type in the Actor Profile Name from Studio. Hit apply and compile the blueprint.

      

       

      • Follow this article about the Body setup:
        Getting Started: Streaming to Unreal Engine
        

• Close the Animation Blueprint window

• Drag and drop the character’s animation blueprint from the Content Browser into the scene

• Now we need to turn on Unreal Engines native live link plugin! Go to Window->Live Link->+Source->Rokoko Studio Source and select "Studio"
  

• Press the Play button and watch as your character animate with the streamed data!
  

Custom blendshape naming

If you have different naming than the standard ARKIT naming please follow the steps below:

• Select "Blueprint Class", in "All Classes" search for "RokokoFaceRemapAsset" and select it.
  
  

• Double-click the "FaceRemap" asset and you will be greeted with a list of

  Blendshapes/Morph-Targets:

  • The setup is based on Apples ARKits naming convention. If your character follow that naming convention you don't have to change the shape names.

  • If you're using your own or different naming convention. You will have to go through the list and map the shape name to the corresponding morph-target on your rig.

  • You can open the "Skeleton" for your character to get the list of morph-targets available.

    

  • For more information and reference to Apples ARKit Documentation, please follow here.

  • The double-click your animation blueprint

  • Click on "Rokoko Face Pose" and in the retarget section select the name of your "FaceRemap" asset.