Unreal Engine 5 Character Creation, Animation, and Cinematics

Chapter 15: Creating a Control Rig with Basic IK Controls for the Robot in UE5

In the previous chapter, we made a Control Rig for our Alien Plant. The Alien Plant Control Rig was a simple forward kinematics (FK) setup. Like we said in Chapter 14, Making a Custom Rig for Our Alien Plant with Control Rig, this is just like a basic parent/child hierarchy setup. In this chapter, we will set up the Control Rig for our Robot Drone. We will learn how to set up inverse kinematics (IK) for the arms of our Robot Drone as well as the rest of the Control Rig.

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

• What is IK?
• Creating the controllers for the robot character
• Ordering the control objects in the correct hierarchy and linking them to joints
• Creating ...