Blender 2.8 Export Lowpoly Character with Animations to UE4

[@BloxEzio3]

To the point without bullshit, this is how a tutorial is done.

[@JimKroovy]

It's so much easier than people think! as long as you don't need mannequin compatibility ; ) Although... You appear to of forgotten to turn off "Add Leaf Bones" in the Armature settings of the FBX export (hence the error on import to UE4 about missing bones) and applying transform can cause a lot of issues if your character objects have transformations on them. I'd also quickly like to give a minor tip for anyone that reads this above "All Actions" there is "NLA Strips" if this is left on and you haven't been keying every bone in each animation then you will get transforms coming through from previous actions unless you mute everything in the NLA stack.

[@JayAnAm]

Yes, thx for the additons.

[@itsnotbloodborne1237]

you da man Jim

[@jeffspinner6579]

Jim, I was actually gonna say this, but I couldn't tell if this was more a "teaching without teaching" tutorial or not. His other tuts are good, from what I've seen. Something else not stated and I'm fighting UE4 and my client ain't happy (non-paying are the bestest), is that he didn't show his rig, and I'm almost certain, you have to name your "root" bone _root_ not bone. I'm actually very interested to see wt heck his rig looks like because I also remember the name "armature" needs to be changed but I forgot to what. I'm testing it now, I just renamed armature to the guys mesh object name and the bone name to *root.* The only thing I can confirm atm, is that "better fbx imp/exp" doesn't work, or I can't find the correct settings, and it's not obvious. It's amazing how leaving out one tick box here or there causes catastrophic fails and the learner will have a hard time figuring it out. It took me 6hrs to pick up on the "add leaf" default option of _The Blender Way_ which is as ridiculous as dozens of other defaults in Blender. I have your addon, and for humanoid rigs, I have no issues trying your port across to UE4. My current rig is a freakin robot arm, though and given a lot of my rigs are custom, it's not like I can Uefy it after rigifying it, ffs. So far, seamlessly importing a rig from Blender to UE4 is _not_ trivial to me, and it pisses me off, cause 3dsmax has absolutely no issues, (other than my client uses it and I haven't for about a decade, and am in no mood to relearn it).

[@JimKroovy]

@@jeffspinner6579 have you tried Send To Unreal? I also have some of my own new tools coming soon that could help with some of your problems keep an eye out over the next few months!

[@jeffspinner6579]

@@JimKroovy, nope didn't know about that, let me check it out ty. There's also an issue that I'm using UE4 as a render engine for my short film machinima, and a few addons like Hops/BC/Meshmachine/... have derailed my learning UE4 for about 3 months. Rigging is not trivial at all, nor is animating said rig. I have about a 1.5 year deadline for my first short film good/bad/or indifferent... I use my probono work to present me with problems that I Idk Idk (sic) about... I can't even find the CCDIK node and more importantly the right BP such that I can recreate his compile error so I can test the corrections. So I'm gonna do my UE4 animations classes and see what's up. You'd think my client would just give me a representative BP such that I could pretest it before I sent him stuff. Nah. So I will learn what he knows. "So sry for the delay..." Will check regularly on your addon(s) cause you do good work. (!)

[@skyletwings5711]

I cannot say anything, but "perfect!". Exactly what I was looking for, simply and unambiguously explained. Thank you very much, I'll check all your videos. 🙂

[@HT1YT]

We need more people like you in the world

[@michabednarski5555]

where is the second part? ( Running with your low poly char )

[@curiousity271]

Superb! Thanks a lot for sharing this with us!!! 🙏👍👌

[@Erbmon]

To the point like always i love your tutorial style. And don't think we did not notice your character is Marty Mc Fly cheaky bastard :P

[@JayAnAm]

ok, i admit:-)

[@CASMANWHAT]

very helpful thx

[@aladin_madafaka]

I LOVE U BRO!

[@JabranImran]

Did you ever make a part where you show how to control the character?

[@apokot6785]

Thank you

[@JayAnAm]

You're welcome

[@parallax3808]

great!

[@FlashySenap]

I am currently trying to export my object with a few armatures into an FBX file. There´s no animation as the armatures are there to be used by a game (Its a custom model that replaces an existing one in a game, a skin,) but I only get errors and the Unreal 3 engine crashes. any ideas what could be wrong?

[@alpho94]

Hi, thanks for the video, it really helped. I have a question: if I then create a new animation for the character in blender, how do I add it back to unreal without also reimporting the rest? I only find video of people importing the character from the beginning, but not how to update it when you add new things like animation in my case, without changing the things already imported

[@headcrap6152]

thanks that was fast and simple i watched a 20min video and it did not even work

[@outcastraguel2093]

I have a problem with my animations, the models export just fine but my animations in UE just show a blank space and if I try to add them to the game nothing happens. Does anyone have an idea what am I doing wrong ?

[@outcastraguel2093]

For anyone checking, I found the solution, turns out your object in blender cannot be named armature to export animations, so just rename it and you will be good to go

[@outcastraguel2093]

@@xfodude8511 You just have to rename your object in blender to something different than armature and it will be alright

[@xfodude8511]

Rename your armature to something else. I had the same problem, that fixed it for me!

[@IMAofficial]

@Outcast Raguel ❤️

[@exabyte9162]

this is the most dubious shit ive ever heard of, thanks for the fix

[@cosp6750]

I am having an issue with selecting two object types, I am unable to. Is there any answers?

[@actaryagame8854]

Hello, and thank you :)

[@muqdadlinux1677]

Thank you very much !

[@brokenglassestv2493]

Pleeese, please, please, please make new video for weapon shop with low poly inventory. Pleeeeease pleeeease 😭🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@makeitunreal6057]

It didn't work for me it said unreal only supports one root bone i don't know how to change this pls help

[@fnafbusters8208]

theres no model folder in my Project Folder

[@julioperone6857]

Amazing!. Is nesesary triangulate the mesh for UE?

[@JayAnAm]

No

[@julioperone6857]

@@JayAnAm thanks!! 👍

[@Andredy89]

my mesh is ok in BLender and in UE, animations is also looks fine in Blender, BUT in UE my ANIMATED object is rotated 90 degree and looks like pivot point is offset....

[@JabranImran]

Pivot Offset is probably because it was offset from the centre in blender when you exported. Easy fix in unreal though you can move the pivot if you hold down your scroll wheel, right click the object, select pivot> set as pivot offset.

[@viniguerrero]

Miss this channel's Godot tutorials =/

[@JayAnAm]

Will come up with a new tutorial for Godot in 1-2 weeks, cause they fixed smooth shadows in 3d

[@viniguerrero]

Awesomeee! Thanks for the heads up @@JayAnAm

[@carrapaz3645]

I will not use Godot ever again until they drop collada for something else

[@JayAnAm]

@@carrapaz3645 They dont need to drop it, just support ther formats as well - but actually they do, for instance gltf

[@carrapaz3645]

@@JayAnAm I remember clearly 6 months ago waisting more than 5 hours to export my char and animation to Godot. Everything was broken and I assumed it was my fault. Turns out that collada was just terrible. Now if they have gltf properly implemented it might be worth it to give it another spin

[@liamknight7046]

When I try import to ue4, the front half of my characters mesh has been cut off

[@flynn3958]

Is your normals facing the right way on that half?

[@joshkgw9504]

@@flynn3958 what are normals? i have the same issue - the front half of my models face and the backpack are missing.

[@flynn3958]

​@@joshkgw9504 If you're using Blender: - Go on overlays (Top-Right of the Viewport) - Click on the Tick-Box - Face Orientation Now your object in the viewport will turn blue, red or both, blue means your normals are facing the right way and red meaning it's facing the wrong way, which will lead to your mesh in a game engine to appear like parts or all of it is missing. Now to fix it: - Go into edit mode - Click on the faces that are red - Click on Mesh (Top-Left of the Viewport) - Click on Normals and flip

[@joshkgw9504]

@@flynn3958 cheers that worked! i also had to add a bone for the backpack for it show up in UE4

[@flynn3958]

@@joshkgw9504 I don't think you need to add a bone if it's just a mesh

[@azim0ff]

When i follow those steps, the exported animations are empty

[@JayAnAm]

Do you have skeleton and mesh selected before exporting?

[@azim0ff]

@@JayAnAm Yes, both model and skeleton were properly there, i was able to move bones around and mesh properly followed, but the animations were empty. Few hours ago, after aimlessly messing around with seemingly empty animation in UE, i found out that checking "enable root motion" completely solved the issue - the mesh appeared in animation editing window and was properly moving. I dont know why, i dont understand why, but if it works, it works, i guess. If you have any ideas on why this was the case, please let me know, im curious

[@metalcosmonaut915]

how can i create multible blender animations in one project? i have the rig and an animation but how can i add actions and or split multible animations? :7 ty

[@metalcosmonaut915]

and u not show the amature settings :/

[@metalcosmonaut915]

and u not show all the import settings :D

[@metalcosmonaut915]

mine not work :D ill pay you 100$ if u show me how to creade diferent animations and the import lel

[@susmusadam7239]

He used action editor, most of the blender users uses it. Just type and search "blender action editor" or just "animating in blender" You need to learn things like this and probably you will have issues A LOT to importing it to ue4 or what do you use. Thats all i can say, just dont lose your desire

[@Last0wner]

Does anyone know if I can make a map or a small set in unreal engine and import it to blender?

[@bortuda]

is it possible to make ur idle Animation Character now follow a spline? Or do i need an Object?

[@da_cat]

you have an error, what is that about ?

[@JayAnAm]

I guess I forgot to uncheck "Add leaf bones" when exporting.

[@glalkia713]

Sir plz make a tutorial for unity also

[@pbbloor]

69th comment. Sorry. I had to do it

[@JayAnAm]

It's alright