# Body Bone Mappings

Open the body bone mappings asset and set a skeletal mesh that uses the same skeleton used by the hand bone mappings.

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Next press the Auto-fill bone mappings button.

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As per the hand bone mappings, review that all the auto-assigned bones are correct. The skeleton in this example did miss the football bones.&#x20;

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Again, as per the hand bone mappings, depending on the skeleton certain bones may be completely missing. If that is the case, press Auto-fill excluded bones.

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Next the head rotation of the skeleton may need to be adjusted, use the head delta to fix any unexpected rotations in the head.

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Finally, make sure that the skeleton specified has its Y axis forward using Epic’s skeleton convention. If this is not the case and the skeleton used has its X axis forward for example change the SkeletonMeshFacingForwardAxis property value. There are two ways to find out the skeleton facing forward axis:

1. In the viewport of the body bone mappings use the skeletal mesh forward facing and the viewport axis gizmo in the bottom left.

   <figure><img src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/iuLxgXGp5iGkeXh7Baw7Sm_fANLu8HwgpBF4F6tG9801opmEGvi4ro-M6-1I6gVUFfgeJjV13AhMgKJH7HYTr46u1j3g-lSLfoSMJQSv_iPy4JRfAAymz5vz48-jjfnxpKwC60a25cxTpFeuv8HcFw" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>
2. Drag and drop a skeletal mesh that uses the skeleton that has been used so far in a level and observe the forward pointing axis when working in relative space.

   <figure><img src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/lTRXWn_a_NSzvhF1f-Jwo4nqopp9TiV2U5c7mUwFF1PwDK0C0WvLD2vrfbh8KvTyt6bWa-DwFwjlif--YxsbEmKRFroQ_WjFLD0emdM_rWB7l9JiyJmwhGdYoh2ZYpel3d_8mCplWjWIXhWCHdlCrQ" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>


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