How To Export A Character From Blender To Unreal Engine - Tutorial (use these settings)

[@murnoth]

Of all the Time I spent trying to figure this out and All the other videos I watched, This is the one that finally got me there. I'm a novice to blender so I didn't know about the "Non-Linear Animation" graph or the stash. Thank you dearly !

[@la-ia1404]

Thank you for explaining the different options and their functions. Finally got my model exported without pieces of it going to infinity.

[@hipjoeroflmto4764]

Lmao following this for the same exact reason my animation meshes are invisible

[@chucknorrisffs]

@@hipjoeroflmto4764 I know it's 5 months too late but missing meshes in my experience usually have to do with ngons(Polygon faces with more than 4 sides) with bad shading or flipped normals before exporting in blender.

[@chucknorrisffs]

@@hipjoeroflmto4764 And possibly unmerged vertices/double faces.

[@albertm.19]

hey bro, not sure if y'all read this comment from an older video, but I just want to say thank you!. I've been wanting to make a game for a while and came across your channel, I've had such a great time working along side your videos because of how well the process is explained! Thanks again for providing such great help

[@BuvesaGameDevelopment]

Thank you!

[@happycockatiels]

Awesome video, can't wait to see the next part

[@simonflash_edit]

Thx sooo much man, this was really helpful!

[@BuvesaGameDevelopment]

Great :)

[@SleepySideshow]

i have no idea how you have that star screen for your animations. im so frusterated all im trying to do is add a pickaxe rig with a idle animation that has ONLY ONE BONE. into unreal engine and nothing is working it keeps saying Imported bone transform is different from original. Please check Output Log to see detail of error. ive had this problem for 3 days and i just started game developing 3 days ago....

[@HarrisonKillianAnimation]

Wow thank you so much for the amazing tutorial, this was exactly what I needed! Extremely helpful I have a few characters with complex rigs that work in conjunction with wrinkle maps. I’m looking to transfer them to Unreal Engine for use with motion capture. I need the wrinkle maps and their corresponding mask image maps, as well as topology, nodes, drivers, shape keys and UV layout to stay the same. Is there a way to transfer all of these components in Blender to Unreal Engine and have the same character and rig in Unreal? For instance when I open the character in Unreal Engine, will all of those components have transferred or will I need to redo them? Forgive my lack of knowledge in Unreal Engine, I’m not familiar with it.

[@wolfiedgr8t]

Excellent stuff 👍 thanks.

[@BuvesaGameDevelopment]

Thank you!

[@wolfiedgr8t]

@@BuvesaGameDevelopment Can't wait for the rest of the series ❤

[@BuvesaGameDevelopment]

@@wolfiedgr8t Great! Recording & editing since today ;)

[@wolfiedgr8t]

@@BuvesaGameDevelopment ❤

[@andthe.infinite]

what if my character has clothes that not merged in the character mesh, becasue i want it to be able to change clothes, should i create another bone for each clothes?

[@TheeWildWolfpack]

Hey I don't know if you are going to see this but have you made a tutorial on how to make the blender model into your players character?

[@BuvesaGameDevelopment]

Yes i have ;) look on the channel playlist, video base or the search function for the different blender/unreal topics. Look for animation and blueprint animation.

[@TheeWildWolfpack]

@@BuvesaGameDevelopment Thank you!

[@centralanime2131]

Nice video bro

[@BuvesaGameDevelopment]

Thank you!

[@shypd]

where the follow-up tutorial for when you said you will animate the zombie inside unreal engine 5? cant seem to find it anywhere on your channel. And also, you are using that model in context of a game; could I still follow along with your tutorials if I want to do 3D animation and film making with cameras instead? Thank you.

[@BuvesaGameDevelopment]

You can use search function on my channel page: These are the zombie videos: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIDLdYKoo6Z0sLs and kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGW6ZGl3o52ledk You can use it for game & film yes

[@Vae_VictisS]

Hello, I followed all your steps, but when I export it to unreal it tells me that the bones do not match, why? Could you share your file to follow the steps better?

[@pastellepuppy]

My mesh keeps importing on laying flat. Do you have a way to help fix it?

[@keshxn8076]

same here, have u found a solution?

[@Chocolin45]

Thx !!

[@Toon444]

I have an issue with the animation... I created a running animation for my character which worked fine in Blender, but when I play it in UE5 the character T-poses for a frame and then plays like half of the animation, after which it loops again. I also had a second idle animation which worked totally fine. I have no idea what could've gone wrong here. One thing I did notice is that the running animation showed up under the "root" in the nonlinear animation menu (with a star), while the idle animation showed up under the name of my character (without a star). I followed the tutorial as exactly as I could. The only thing I did differently was ticking All actions in stead of NLA strips in the export menu (because I made the animations in the action editor and not with NLA strips). If you have any idea what's going on here that'd be great. Other than that, very good tutorial! I'm looking forward to seeing the next one!

[@BuvesaGameDevelopment]

Thx! This tutorial might help, it's the exact steps I used before this proces: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGW6ZGl3o52ledk Other than that check if you have all keyframe in right positions and have it making a fitting loop.

[@Toon444]

@@BuvesaGameDevelopment I just checked and realised, in the step where you press alt+R to reset the positions of the armature, it counted as part of the animation, so that was the issue. Thanks for the reply!

[@BuvesaGameDevelopment]

@@Toon444 Good that you found it! It's a minefield of many small possible mistakes ;)

[@datupazeme5201]

I would like to know, if i could get a link for next video. Where it explains how to change unreal character, in to this MC character and apply animations to work. Thnks

[@BuvesaGameDevelopment]

This playlist will help: kzbin.info/aero/PLReAtlExK-BNPaJW1JHQztrh2E6RkcjD1 You can also use the search function when you click on my channel to find a specific video ;)

[@nayaleezy]

so you can't transfer IK and FK control rigs from blender to UE only skeletal mesh and anims?

[@BuvesaGameDevelopment]

I use IK/FK control rigs to animate inside of blender and then export them

[@TrespasserAlt]

for some reason my character's skeletal mesh is huge in ue5, but tiny in the animation viewer in ue5. is there any fix for this?

[@BuvesaGameDevelopment]

i have a video about this on my channel: blender scale in unreal engine

[@TrespasserAlt]

@@BuvesaGameDevelopment thank you 🙏 also is there any way to fix FBX character textures some of my kore complex textures are just white in ue5

[@DimitryArsenev]

My Character has texture, i export to to UE, its without texture. What need select to export with textures?

[@olliveraira6122]

gltf can do that if the shader setup is the simplest imagineable

[@olliveraira6122]

otherwise try datasmith (the blender exporter is paid however and doesnt yet support skeletal meshes)

[@gamermanmitchell]

when i import it my animations are not there....

[@Chareidos]

I am failing at this with my 3d model. It wont take the textures in and the materials being created, if they are created, are blank. What am I missing?

[@fairy-killer7222]

Did you ever figure this out ? I’m having the same issue

[@Chareidos]

@@fairy-killer7222 If I remember correctly, I did., You have to create/add the material manually or edit the "automatically" created one, by adding the base texture (?). There are many tutorials on how to do it on youtube and I think I googled the solution somewhere. Have not the steps in my head right now, because I had not touched Unreal for about two months now.

[@fairy-killer7222]

@@Chareidos lmao i just picked back up unreal for the first time in months but for the textures i just go to uv editing and just download them individually

[@adammadrigal3191]

How doyou do it with textures added? Mines not doing that.

[@BuvesaGameDevelopment]

Baking the textures on uv maps or exporting them to quixel mixer first. I have video's about this on the channel also

[@Islamputh]

Is it easy also to export it to unity?

[@BuvesaGameDevelopment]

Yes!

[@snudge763]

the unreal import all button is grayed out for me :(( (im using ue5)

[@thestellarelite]

Did you ever figure this out? Long shot but I'm running into this again and can't remember how I got it to work the one and only time. Can never seem to get my characters animated in UE it's impossible