Motion Transfer is a Blender addon which enables an average user to easily transfer animations between similar rigs that have different bone orientations.
- Download this repository as a zip
- Install and open Blender, preferably 2.79 or later.
- Go to User Preferences, and then Addons.
- Using the "install from file" dialogue, pick the zip you downloaded.
- Make sure the checkbox to enable it is checked
- Save user preferences
- Align the T-Poses:
- Pose your transfer target to match the T-Pose of your source
- Apply armature modifiers on your target objects where necessary
- Apply said pose as a reference
- Select the source armature
- Select the target armature
- Using the spacebar search menu, run Motion Transfer
- Tweak your parameters. If your bone names don't match, you can use a position based search to select the nearest bone in a given radius, excluding the blacklist.
- Run, give it some time, and enjoy!