🪟Retarget Window

Retarget Pro Window is the main workspace for adjusting, previewing and baking animations. It’s opened automatically when creating a new Retarget Profile. To open it manually, double-click on a Retarget Profile or go to Window ▸ KINEMATION ▸Retarget Pro.

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Control Panel

This is the left side of the window that contains various retargeting settings, grouped as dropdown tabs.

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Profile Setup

This tab displays general character skeleton settings.

• Target Profile — current Retarget Profile.
• Source Rig — skeleton of the source character.
• Target Rig — skeleton of the target character.
• Root Node — the top/root bone in the hierarchy (only used for root motion).

Press the “swap” button to swap source and target character skeletons. This action will re-generate bone chains for both skeletons. Root Node is to properly bake root motion. If your target character has a root bone (e.g., root, skeleton, armature, etc.) specify it here.

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Item

This tab displays settings for a preview item (e.g., weapon).

• Item Model — the skinned mesh of the preview item (e.g., rifle or a sword).
• Item Animation — the animation to preview on the selected item (e.g., reload).
• Attach Bone — the bone to attach the item to.
• Rotation Offset — local rotation offset applied to the item.

These settings are useful when you want to preview an item together with the character animation.

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Clip & Save Settings

This tab displays animation exporting settings.

• Frame Rate — target export frame rate.
• Rig Type — both Generic and Humanoid rigs are supported.
• Bake Output — bake the animation as a clip or FBX file.
• Root Rotation Offset — local rotation offset for the root bone. Useful for models with non-standard/offset roots.
• Loop Count — number of animation loops to include. Useful for continous locomotion actions.
• Copy Clip Settings — whether to copy source clip settings (e.g., Loop, Bake Into Pose, etc.).
• Use Root Motion — whether to use root motion from the source character.
• Save Folder — output directory for retargeted animations.

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Playback & Preview

This tab displays the playback and what animations to use.

• Source Pose — source character base pose (e.g., T or A pose).
• Target Pose — target character base pose (e.g., T or A pose).
• Animation — a single or multiple clips to retarget.
• Clip Time Range (for single clips) — defines the start and end animation time.
• Pose — stops the playback and resets character poses.
• Play — starts the retargeting.
• Loop — toggles animation looping.

Source and Target Pose clips are sampled before the retargeting starts. Retarget Pro comes with T poses for popular skeletons:

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Bone Chain Settings

This tab displays what retarget features and chains are used in this profile.

All features and bone chains are displayed as a single list. The order matters — features are applied as they are ordered in the list. To see feature settings, click on any list elements and scroll down: Retarget Pro natively supports popular skeleton types:

• Mixamo.
• Synty.
• Character Creator.
• UE4/UE5.
• Humanoid (General)
• Quadruped (Animals).

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Notifications & Help

These last tabs are used to display notification and help messages, which can be quite helpful with troubleshooting.