Blender Secrets - Retargeting any Rest Pose with the Rokoko and Cats add-ons

If you’re using the free Rokoko add-on for Blender to retarget some mocap animation for your own armature, your armature needs to be in a T-pose for it to work properly. But not all characters are created in a T-pose, so how do we change the armature’s “Rest Pose”? @hellorokoko

[BadrSimp]

U're a life saver, i couldn't make the rest position same as the pose position without this addon

[StormyDoesVR]

Using CATS blender plugin to manually force the mesh and rig to stay in T-pose in edit mode is genius! Can't believe I didn't think of that, I already have Cats!

[Janfon]

Take care with mixamo as it changes not just the skeleton but the weight painting of the mesh, more often than not ruining it as the results are comparable to Blender's own automatic weight painting

[emsuddy]

Like the splash screen at the end - and great vid!

[arnavupadhyay]

Absolutely love your videos! I'm gonna try and convince my dad to buy the book soon

[fearthesmeag]

life save man, Ive been struggling with this for the last 2hrs. Thanks!

[salarycat]

Setting a new rest pose really should be built in, I'm very surprised if it isn't.
Thanks for the tutorial.

[RiggingDojo]

It can just be posed as a T pose, you don't need to bake the changes into the core skeleton and mess up how it was rigged for the mesh. @cgdive does a great job going over no-destructive retargeting in Blender.

[RomboutVersluijs]

Downside is that if the model is in separate parts it wont work.
This addon does work on that. Its originally a retargetting add, pretty nice one

[flashnb]

Whenever i try to change the rest pose, the model itself resets to its original rest pose but the armature does stay as a t-pose

[BestMods]

What do we do if the model doesnt have a resting a or t pose? Are we screwed?

[tuddyeo]

Thank you so much! This works brilliantly!!!

[siren]

Hey do you know how to fix the installing of CATS? because I keep getting a error for it

[aaronguo]

When I press apply pose as rest pose in CATS, it just gives me a python error.

[ARMORHOUSweplay]

I can't thank you enough!!! Well done!

[grahamthomas]

this is so funny I've been trying to do this all day except my model doesn't have a rig. I am adding a rig as best I can, using it to get as close as I can to a t pose on one side, then cutting it in half and mirroring it. lol. I initially got a mixamo rig. I thought I could save the rest pose and then apply that to the pose model after I got the rig in the model correctly. But rest pose is zero. It is not carrying any location data that is accessible, and you can't parent a rig to a posed armature. It always parents to the rest pose. So long story short I get to do some more modeling :) fun! I could probably write some code to do it but I don't think It's worth it.

[reelperminute]

I've downloaded a mocap animation with no t-pose (in rest), so how can I get a t-pose on frame one for this? Because my Rokoko re-target addon is unable to copy the exact animation from source armature to target one, though both has identical structure with bone names. Any help will be appreciated !

[Leo_gamesYTT]

I cant do it, i press Alt + R and dont go to rest pose

[JamesPlaysGames]

what do you mean manually pose it? What short cut or key are you using to grab it like that? is that also in edit mode?

[Vibhu_Kishan]

Hey! when i hit Alt + R envida panel opens up my model does not get rest help!