Get Ref Pose Bone Position in Component Space in UE4

Since I am engaged into something needs bone position of a ref pose in UE4, and UE4 does not provide access to it, so we need to calculate it manually.

If You Just Want the Answer

We can calculate bone position like this:

void get_ref_pose_bone_comp_space_transform(TArray<FTransform>& outResult, USkeletalMeshComponent* inSkelComp)
{
     FReferenceSkeleton refSkeleton = inSkelComp->SkeletalMesh->RefSkeleton;

     const int32 poseNum = refSkeleton.GetRefBonePose().Num(); 

     outResult.Reset(); 
     outResult.AddUninitialized(poseNum); 

     for (int32 i = 0; i < poseNum; i++)
     {
          outResult[i] = get_ref_pose_single_bone_comp_space_transform(refSkeleton, i); 

     }

}

FTransform get_ref_pose_single_bone_comp_space_transform(FReferenceSkeleton inSkel, int32 boneIdx)
{
     FTransform resultBoneTransform = inSkel.GetRefBonePose()[boneIdx];

     auto refBoneInfo = inSkel.GetRefBoneInfo(); 

     while (boneIdx)
     {
          resultBoneTransform *= inSkel.GetRefBonePose()[refBoneInfo[boneIdx].ParentIndex]; 
          boneIdx = refBoneInfo[boneIdx].ParentIndex; 
 }

     return resultBoneTransform; 
}

How to Get the Bone Position of the Current Pose?

We can use USkeletalMeshComponent::GetComponentSpaceTransforms() to get current bone position in component space.