Pose Library & Management Toolkit

Module: Animation · Category: PoseAsset · Tool ID: PoseAssetBrowser

A two-tab toolkit for managing PoseAssets — facial poses, additive pose libraries, and any other pose-driven animation workflow. Browse & Inspect walks every PoseAsset in the project with search, audit, and tagging. Create & Assign opens UE’s native PoseAsset factory dialog and finds every PoseAsset that’s compatible with a given Skeleton.

Toolkit open on the Browse tab with a populated list showing pose counts, file sizes, and severity coding.

When to use it

• Auditing facial-pose libraries: finding duplicates, oversize assets, broken references
• Onboarding to a project: getting a roster of every pose-based asset in one view
• Setting up a new MetaHuman or character: finding which existing poses can be assigned
• Tagging poses for downstream tooling (a custom AnimBP, a runtime selector, etc.)

What it isn’t for

• Don’t use this to edit individual poses. Pose editing happens in UE’s PoseAsset editor.
• Don’t expect this to handle non-PoseAsset facial animation. It specifically targets UPoseAsset.

Opening the tool

1. Open the EQLabs Hub and search for Pose (or browse to Animation → PoseAsset).
2. Click the tool card.
3. Use the tab bar to switch between Browse & Inspect and Create & Assign.

Tab 1: Browse & Inspect

Project-wide PoseAsset roster.

Interface

Section	What it does
Scan Path	Folder to recursively scan. Default /Game.
Search box	Filter by asset name
Scan button	Walks every UPoseAsset under the scan path
Export CSV	Saves the result set to a CSV file
Stats	Total PoseAssets, total poses across all assets
Results list	Per-asset row: name, skeleton, pose count, duplicate-name flag, file size, issue summary, severity, tags

Severity coding

Severity	Meaning
OK	No detected issues
Warning	Duplicate pose names within an asset, suspicious size
Error	Broken skeleton reference, malformed asset

Results list populated, mixed severities, stats line showing totals.

Workflow

1. Pick a scan path, click Scan.
2. Walk the results — anything yellow or red gets a manual review.
3. Use the search box to narrow to a specific naming convention or batch.
4. Export CSV if you want to slice further in a spreadsheet.

Tab 2: Create & Assign

PoseAsset creation and skeleton compatibility checking.

Interface

Section	What it does
Skeleton picker	Drop a Skeleton asset to look up compatible PoseAssets
Find Compatible Poses button	Walks every PoseAsset and lists those built on the picked Skeleton
Create New PoseAsset button	Opens UE’s native PoseAsset factory dialog
Compatible Poses list	Per-asset row: name, skeleton, pose count, file size

Workflow

Find compatible poses for a Skeleton

1. Drop a Skeleton into the picker.
2. Click Find Compatible Poses — every PoseAsset built on that Skeleton appears.
3. Single-click pings the asset; double-click opens the PoseAsset editor.

Create a new PoseAsset

1. Click Create New PoseAsset.
2. UE’s native factory dialog opens — pick the source AnimSequence and Skeleton as usual.
3. The new asset is created in the Content Browser.

Settings reference

Field	What it does	Default
Scan Path	Folder to scan in Browse tab	/Game
Search	Substring filter	empty

Settings are persisted to [Project]/Saved/EQLabs/Settings/PoseAssetBrowser.json.

Output

• In-panel lists. Cleared on each rescan.
• CSV export. Full Browse tab result set written via the platform’s save dialog.
• New assets. The Create button creates a real PoseAsset via UE’s factory; appears in Content Browser.
• No in-place edits. Auditing is read-only.

Tips and gotchas

• The Skeleton-compatibility check looks at hard references. A PoseAsset bound to a different Skeleton with an identical bone hierarchy still won’t show up here. Use UE’s IK Retargeter for cross-skeleton work.
• Duplicate pose names within a single PoseAsset are not always wrong. Sometimes intentional, but usually a sign of a bad import.
• File size signal works best for facial pose libraries. A face library with 200+ poses can grow to dozens of megabytes; the size column makes outliers obvious.
• Single-click pings the asset; double-click opens the PoseAsset editor.

Related tools

• Corrective Blendshape Authoring — when poses aren’t enough and you need vertex-delta morph targets
• Skeleton Inspector & Rig Shortcuts — analyze the Skeleton that drives this PoseAsset