How to make R6 animations work on a R15 rig?

[MILLENNlA]

Basically, I own a competitive group. For over a decade now, in that community, R6 has been the main standard of avatar choice. However, I want to do something else.

I’ve seen plenty of developers create a bendable R15 rig that has R6-alike features, which really draws me to it. However, I’m curious as to how I can make the rig itself support R6 animations.

Obviously, I know it can’t be 100% exact cause it’s just not possible using the same scripts and stuff R6 has, but I want to replicate it in any “hack’ish” way possible for it to be as identical as it can get.

Any tips? Anything helps, really.

[Synitx (syn)]

The difference between R6 and R15 is the amount of baseparts.
R6 characters have 6 parts while R15 character have 15 parts.

And because of that, you can’t make r6 animation work on r15.

[kalabgs (FartFella)]

@MILLENNlA

I’ve seen plenty of developers create a bendable R15 rig that has R6-alike features

They use skinned mesh, behind the scene its still r15, its just the parts that are connected. So yea, you have to reanimate them in r15

[dthecoolest]

Seems like you are talking about several done community resources.

R6 to R15 using Inverse kinematics

IK Based R6 Animation To R15 Converter

A problem I had was trying to re-make R6 animations to R15. I could pay someone to do it, which I have, but it costed time and money, and I am not the only one with the problem. There is an existing converter, but it doesn’t attempt to preposition the arms and legs. It does basic inverse kinematics to do this. It isn’t perfect, but it does work. R6 (input animation): [image] R15 (output animation): [image] Here are some things that could be improved: It only does uploaded animations, …

@MILLENNlA

I’ve seen plenty of developers create a bendable R15 rig that has R6-alike features,

Are you talking about dogu15 mesh rig?

Dogu15, a mesh deform R15 Rig [Updated!]

Introduction Hello, this is a thread about my Dogu15 rig, which is open sourced. Originally it was just a normal rig without deform. Once it came out, I tried to master the art of deformation. It officially became a Mesh Deform R15 rig with a huge success. Because of my last year of college, this project was on a small ‘hiatus’. But hey! I’m done now! I might improve this once again. It will be used in my upcoming projects for aesthetic and texturing reasons! [image] NOTE: It’s worth noti…

[MILLENNlA]

@dthecoolest

R6 to R15 using Inverse kinematics

This was perfect; the issue is, the legs inverse (and looking at someone else’s code is like looking at an unkown) and can’t figure out a fix for that.

@dthecoolest

Are you talking about dogu15 mesh rig?

Well, I used to use that, but I found a better one.