Text To Anim

October 8, 2026

Text To Anim: type a prompt, get an animation

Introduction

Text To Anim brings text-to-motion generation into the Unreal Editor, running entirely on your machine. Describe a movement in plain English, like "a person walks forward, then turns left and sits down", and get a clean skeletal animation in seconds, previewed live on your character and saved as a regular Animation Sequence.

After the one-time model download nothing leaves your PC: no account, no credits, no per-generation cost. It is available on Fab for Unreal Engine 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8.

Features

🔒 Local and private: the model runs on your NVIDIA GPU, in a separate process, so a GPU error never closes your editor
🎬 Multi-prompt Clips: chain segments on a timeline, the model generates the transitions between them and you regenerate only what changed
🧭 Direction control: set a heading or a point to reach on the floor for each segment, right in the viewport
🔁 Seamless Loops: one prompt, automatic cycle detection, In place or Root motion, ready for Blend Spaces and locomotion
🦴 Automatic retargeting with Unreal's IK Rig and IK Retargeter: UE5 Manny and Quinn, UE4 Mannequin, MetaHuman bodies, Mixamo and other humanoid skeletons
📦 Real assets: Animation Sequences with Root motion, In place or Animated root, that you can update in place after picking another take
🧩 Editor-only: nothing of it ships in your game

Multi-prompt Clips: chain prompts, the model writes the transitions

Seamless loops with automatic cycle detection

Automatic retargeting to your character

Requirements

Unreal Engine 5.6, 5.7 or 5.8 on Windows 10/11, 64-bit
An NVIDIA GPU, RTX 20 series or newer, with a recent driver. AMD and Intel GPUs are not supported in this version: support for them is in development, with no release date yet
16 GB of RAM (32 GB recommended) and about 10 GB of free disk space
The AI models (about 9.3 GB) are not included: they are downloaded once after installation, directly from their official Hugging Face repositories, with one click in the plugin
Unreal's built-in IK Rig plugin, enabled automatically together with Text To Anim

Documentation

The full setup guide, the Clip and Loop editors, settings, troubleshooting and FAQ are in the official documentation.

Feedback & Support

Questions or feedback? Use the comments on the Fab listing or reach out on our Discord.

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