Compatible Skeleton Animation does not retarget the same on duplicate skeleton

UE - Anim - Rigging - Retargeting - Jan 29, 2026

If a mesh is exported from the engine, reimported as a new skeleton and mesh, and then marked as a compatible skeleton. Animation will have slightly different rotations playing on the skeleton. ...

Curve Retargeting does not work with SourcePose retarget mode

UE - Anim - Rigging - Retargeting - Jan 14, 2026

Currently we build what source curves we are going to remap is done inside of: FIKRetargetCurveRemapOp::AnimGraphPreUpdateMainThread But in our ikretarget processor code we skip calling that functi ...

Inline retargeting gives different output pose vs retargeting from mesh

UE - Anim - Rigging - Retargeting - Nov 19, 2025

When we perform a retarget from an input pose rather than another mesh, the transforms within the anim bp have already been conformed to the target mesh by translational retargeting and compatible s ...

Retargeting montages breaks the referenced animation's in Pose Search Databases

UE - Anim - Rigging - Retargeting - Feb 17, 2025

If users retarget a montage that is referenced by a pose search database, the reference in the PSD is wrongly changed to reference the new montage.  This means any users that use montages with motio ...

IK Retarget editor's asset browser doesn't list all asset types

UE - Anim - Rigging - Retargeting - Feb 17, 2025

Certain asset types that are displayed in the Retarget Animation window are not displayed within the asset browser in the IK Retarget editor ...

Additives using Frame From This Animation as the Base Pose Type fail to retarget correctly

UE - Anim - Rigging - Retargeting - Feb 13, 2025

Additive animations that use a frame from their own sequence as a base pose are initially broken when retargeted.  Users have to refresh the properties that select the base pose in order to fix the ...

Crash when IK Anim Node is used in post process blueprint.

UE - Anim - Rigging - Retargeting - Nov 5, 2024

If an IK Anim node is used in a post-process animation blueprint when that post-process blueprint is active in persona. It will crash attempting to get dynamically created goal components from an ac ...

Selected Animations do not transfer to Retarget Window asset list.

UE - Anim - Rigging - Retargeting - Oct 2, 2024

When selecting animations in the content browser to retarget, the right clicking and selection "Retarget Animations". The selected items do not become selected in the RetargetAnimAssetsWindow. ...

Retargeting Retain Additive Flags option keep reference to the original sequence in additive settings

UE - Anim - Rigging - Retargeting - Sep 24, 2024

Asset Details > Additive Settings when retargeting are copied over but reference to the animation sequence that was used in the original is kept. Batch retargeting process correctly identifies that ...

IK Rig/Retargeter editors' Preview viewport doesn't display static mesh attachments

UE - Anim - Rigging - Retargeting - Feb 12, 2024

Many of the animation asset editors don't display static mesh attachments in the way that the anim sequence or anim bp editor do.  This prevents users from previewing characters that are built from ...