Customize MetaHuman Textures | Unreal Engine 5 tutorial

[@badxstudio]

Tips & Updates: (Based on our findings and your questions) 1. BODY TEXTURE: If you want to also TEXTURE the BODY simultaneously, you can! We already showed you the UDIM naming system and how the body textures get the suffix .1002 .... all you have to do is export the body as an FBX alongside the face mesh. In blender connect the body to the head mesh using CTRL+J and also perform the NON-MANIFOLD process that we did for the head but this time with the body as well. It should be fairly simple since the body doesnt have the extra color and normal maps. If you have questions let us know

[@ey891]

Holy shit! Just the last two days, I've been struggling with how to make my Metahumn texture realistic. All of a sudden, I see it. You guys are just brilliant💛

[@badxstudio]

hahah thanks a lot! Glad it helped you. Show us your work on our discord when you are done.

[@AlexisRivera3D]

This channel is underrated. Tutorials are top notch!

[@badxstudio]

Glad you like them! Thank you ❤️

[@jakepeterson6488]

Thats because their intro and persona is like some cancer tiktokers and makes people close the video instantly

[@shelfrelated]

Creating the best content out there folks! Those metahuman looks INSANELY good.

[@badxstudio]

Shelf Ma mannnn! Do you ever fail to be here almost immediately after upload????

[@fortbonescreative]

Just used this tutorial to give my metahuman some dirt and scratches. Worked like a charm and looks fantastic. Thanks so much for making this!

[@vadozkek573]

Наконец-то! Бесплатный туториал в котором тебе не предлагают купить 100 курсов чтобы это сделать. Спасибо ♥

This kind of content and your energy are awesome. Just what I needed on this rainy Sunday!

[@badxstudio]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much

[@orivxdevlabs]

This is GREAT! I expanded upon this and also edited the metahuman shader to add a "Roughness overlay" Texture and used the Substance roughness mat with a blur mask to bring extra life to the paint. :)

[@badxstudio]

Oh thats a fantastic idea!!! What does your metahuman look like nowwww we are curious!! Mind showing me in discord? (We have a community sharing channel) discord.gg/fUTyYnvceB

[@badxstudio]

Heyyyy Maybe you forgot hahaha but can u share the result of your modification with me? i really wanna see it :D

[@Chillfolio]

Really one of the best tutorials I have seen. A lot of information in a short time. Well done and thanks a lot :)

[@farazshababi1]

Thank you brother! Well the next one is coming next week :) Customising MetaHuman MESH :) Face and body

[@caliberpokwana8872]

Og caliber Amun here told u guy's I'm tuning in

[@badxstudio]

Thank you brother

[@emotionamusic]

Love to see it guys! Much appreciated

[@atlanteum]

So happy I found you guys the other day. Your videos are as fun and entertaining as they are practical and informative - the perfect combination. Let us know if you ever take it on the road with live tutorial/ performances!

[@badxstudio]

Hey buuddy! Your comment jus made our day! Thank you :) That's the goal we wanna experiment and havve fun while sharing the journey with you. So by live tutorial do you mean livestreaming here? or actual physical meetups and stuff?

[@richardchipstick235]

Just got to say that Part 1 (Create), Part 2 (Animate) and the first part of Part 3 (Customize) of your Metahuman Tutorial Series are in my opinion the Absolutely Best Metahuman Tutorials available anywhere in the world today, simply because I have actually very successfully completed them, now I have worked through a number of other Metahuman Tutorials available and although these are good, they no way cover the breath and width of this subject matter that your tutorials cover, and are massively informative and relatively easy to follow, so thank you very much indeed for producing such Fantastically High Quality and Different Video Tutorials...Now there's always a "BUT" so here goes, you two are also obviously very very skilled at "Substance Painter" it shows in the video, now I know this is not a video about teaching people how to use "Substance Painter" and yes I have used it in the past... BUT why have you just torn through the "substance Painter" part at 100 miles per hour, it is very much a composite part of this whole tutorial, any one who is completely new to "Metahumans" would I believe manage to successfully get through the "Metahuman" part, But I do also believe they would be absolutely "LOST" working their way through the "Substance Painter" part, which is an absolute shame, all that time you have spent creating this near-on Perfect Tutorial, is let down by a small part of it. I myself are very much struggling with this part as well, but I'm not going to give up on these wonderful tutorials, I'm just going to have to get a Grip on "Substance Painter" a bit more.

[@haya3sa]

hey quick question, i just wonder since its a texture paint can we do it using blender wrap painting technique? what's special about Substance painter?

[@indiefilmmovies]

Great tutorial guys, I've been learning a lot from you! Glad you found a way to solve the texture issues! 🍄📽

[@badxstudio]

Glad to hear it! 🙌🫡

[@ParisHolland]

Finally found a use for Substance Painter for my project, thanks guys!!!

[@TheOddestJ]

I watched 30s of this video and then subscribed with BOTH my channels, just so I don’t miss anything!! 💪🏻💪🏻

[@badxstudio]

Wow!!! Don't make us blush man :D You are absolutely amazing. Thanks for subbing with BOTH channels :D

[@TheOddestJ]

@@badxstudio thanks guys! Can’t wait to see more! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@arise3494]

That fading away of the painted makeup texture due to 3 layers of albedo and normal map just gave me an idea of how to do a transition from a normal looking face to a scary horror face for jumpscares :)

[@badxstudio]

Oh shittttttt you are right!!! Damnnnn that's a genius idea! hahahaha dude! When are you going to make it?

[@arise3494]

@@badxstudio I’ve been searching for a way to do this kind of face transition for horror stuff but there are no videos covering it, but I accidentally found it here haha. I’m working on a short horror film and I’m gonna be trying this method out pretty soon! Btw I would appreciate it if you guys could make a tutorial about this since no one else has done it yet :)

[@lesialuxoria]

I so love you guys.. I was looking for this and now I have find! You are the best😊

[@badxstudio]

Glad you found us and we LOVE U TOO!!!

[@космическаяпыль-д9ь]

With that quality of content and charisma you should have 100,000 subscribers at least

[@badxstudio]

hahaha this is so MOTIVATING.. well that's the goal, we are gonna be there before end of this year ;)

[@realtimegraphx]

Great job guys! Very well explained and easy to follow. 👍😊 really high quality content right there. 🔥

[@badxstudio]

Brotherrrrrrr! Thank you!!!!

[@FeedingWolves]

Great explanation and walk through of this process!!!

[@badxstudio]

Thank you ❤️❤️❤️

[@KonstantinGdalevich]

This video gave me really strange vibes until I realized there are actually 2 hosts and not just 1 guy with some AI or practical make up on top. Probably the strangiest 5 minutes of this week. Great video though! Really appreciate it

[@christopherpoterson1734]

Just got my Rokoko suit and kit. I definitely need this!

[@ai.ai.captain]

Killer videos all of them…subscribed ❤ (please make a tutorial on how to capture body movements along with metahuman facial expressions. And is there a way to shoot two characters at a time ? )

[@badxstudio]

Thanks for the sub :) We already have a video for capturing facial movements kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWLMiIKFgMyCaqc Other videos are coming soon :)

[@Suzanne06]

Great content as always 🤩

[@badxstudio]

Suzanneeeeee we love uuuuu thank uuuu

[@3rdDim3nsn3D]

You guys are awesome!❤ I love your tutorials thanks a freaking lot for your effort😄

[@badxstudio]

Thanks for watching!

[@dr.infinity]

love this bro

[@badxstudio]

Thank u so much man

[@nourhassoun7099]

Amazing tutorial! Really hoping you're still planning to drop a body customization tutorial.

[@badxstudio]

Hey bud! Yes of course. We just have had loads of other video ideas but the metahuman customization is still on our list

[@nourhassoun7099]

@@badxstudio always loving everything you guys drop! Keep making great content.

[@MichaelHurdleStudio]

You guys are the best ever. Thank you.

[@badxstudio]

Dudeeee WE LOVE U TOO!

[@gyanendravyas8229]

Just amazing video 🤩

[@badxstudio]

Thanks a lot

[@GG-nq8jx]

How can i bake the materials from metahuman creator to UE5?

[@1dalmation1]

I'm going to need Faraz's hair to be the basis for the custom hair tutorial.

[@badxstudio]

hahahhahaha... well that should come in when we make the hair customisation tutorial.

[@AlphabetAYT]

Tutorial to make custom hair please

[@squeezypixels]

Thank you guys! Very nice tuttorial

[@badxstudio]

Thank you too!

[@amusingdancerivan]

Awesome !!!

[@badxstudio]

[@Phyzx420]

I loved this tutorial, cant wait to see what you come up with the hair. Metahuman clothes with Marvelous Designer Plz??

[@badxstudio]

Coming soon!

[@flichostudio]

You guys are amazing.....learnt a lot .....just a request .... if you can quit the F word for subscribe thing ....my 12 years old also watch this😊

[@badxstudio]

First of all thank you so much for your comment and watching our video :) To be honest, we have gotten this feedback (to quit the F word at the end) a few times before (even our dad asked for it haha). But, we didn't want to change it because it came out naturally and it was just representing our characters. But, after reading your comment about your 12 years old, we had a quick chat between us and decided to drop it :) I have edited the existing video and removed the F word section ( it will take a few hours to get updated) and we are not gonna say it in the upcoming videos. Our main goal for our channel is to educate, entertain, and raise awareness. If getting rid of certain aspects helps more people learn, we'd be more than happy to do it.

[@flichostudio]

@@badxstudio Thanks a lot 😁 I really appreciate for you guys being considerate. Keep on rocking

[@LEARN_CODE6]

Did you catch the thing with the dresses? MetaTailor? I'd love to see a video from you on how to attach MetaHuman costumes with MetaTailor. bdw the video is amazing 😊

[@KamaradZoe]

You guys are amazing

[@badxstudio]

Thanks a lot buddy

[@BLOG_BAR]

thank you, this is very cool, I would also like to solve this question: how to make a shimmering tattoo like Cortana from Halo 4

[@metafuel]

This was excellent. Thank you. I've been struggling to add a metallic material to the metahumans facial skin and was hella confused by the parent face materials event graph. Do you guys know how to add metallic, roughness map please? Great work. Subscribed.

[@lizakosmeya8233]

Hello. I have the same problem. Maybe you have found solutions?

[@cristophermora4177]

Hi there guys, thank you for putting this up! It was excellent, but if I may offer a bit of feedback, sometimes you go through all the inputs and finish them before you start talking about them, so it is a bit hard to catch up. I find myself either following the steps as shown on the screen and having to ignore the walkthrough, or pay attention to the walkthrough and backtrack in the video to the current step. I understand this is for advanced users, but if you can please take a bit more time transitioning between steps?

[@someoneedits]

Hey thanks guys for this series I am learning alot .thankyou thankyou. But please upload a little quicker😅

[@badxstudio]

Hahhaha if you only knew how long it takes to create these tutorials :D Trust us when we say we are working 24/7 no sleep to get these out

[@abayir41]

Damnnnnnnn, very nice

[@badxstudio]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@borbaart]

u guys are amazing. tks

[@rubberdog]

Love you guys, the Substance help is awesome

[@JeanPhilippeSavoie]

I tried editing the roughness map but it seems to alter the roughness… also how would you had a metalness map?

[@MaisnerProductions]

great stuff. very cool.

[@badxstudio]

Thank you sirrrrr

[@vbs3d]

I really love the tutorial so much. You guys are damn awesome. But I was searching for the ''save button'' for my future use. Is it possible to provide the ''save button'' for this lesson?

[@badxstudio]

Heyyyy we are soooo damn happy you found us!! Not sure if we control the save button here :D Can you bookmark the link maybe?

[@豆雨桐]

Hi~thanks for the great tutorial! : ) but I 'm wondering how to play a facial expression test like you did at 2:47?

[@marcmunoz8812]

Hello guys Thanks for your video, But I have a question, where is the Metalness in your eyes makeup into Unreal, I see that you use inside Substance Painter but, I don´t see any more when you export textures, again thank you for your content

[@ZeyunXu-s6u]

I want to know if it is a material with reflection type, how to add it, because when I do it in the first way, the LOD is missing. I add it directly in the material node. There will be explanations about materials and material instances. Tutorial? (I want to retain materials similar to metal reflections but at the same time retain LOD) I am a CG beginner and I am very grateful for your free videos! I’m also looking forward to your answers!

[@elenadmpl]

hey do you have any tutorial on making like cyborg eyes? GREAT WORK YOU DO GUYS THANK YOU FOR SHARING THE KNOWLEDGE

[@badxstudio]

Yo thats a good idea. So our next two metahuman tutorials are going to be the following: 1. Metahuman Body Animation 2. Metahuman Face Customisation (Modelling & Sculpting) Thinking of doing a cyborg maybe for the 2nd tutorial there so you can see it :)

[@elenadmpl]

@@badxstudio really?OMG you are great

[@elenadmpl]

@@badxstudio you are the BEST

[@badxstudio]

@@elenadmpl yeap 😉

[@austinbonang5462]

This tutorial is great! Only issue I'm running into is when I rename my images to bring into Substance, I'm adding .1002 (because I'm working with a body texture) The image is still coming in assigned to 1001. Is there another way to force this operation? Thanks, keep it up!

[@ANKITYADAV-jj1mb]

🔥🔥🔥🔥❤❤

[@badxstudio]

❤️❤️❤️

[@richardpretious4649]

Great Video!!!! I am having an issue exporting the normal map from substance painter, for some reason the sculpts that I added in blender show up in substance painter but don't export on the normals map, do you have any idea why this may be? I don't have the option in antialiasing for supersampling 4x4, just 4x 16x and 64x, i have tried on all three and no change.

[@jsoutine]

I have the same issue, would be great to see some information about it.

[@richardpretious4649]

For anyone with this issue, I have worked out where I was going wrong. I imported the new high poly mesh into substance painter rather than the original. I hope this makes sence.

[@man4408]

I seem to recall it being a 2K color texture map

[@badxstudio]

yeah we realized our exported was 2k afterwards ... sorry bout that

[@chrisgutierrez5840]

🤩my favorite channel ever #BadDecisionsStudio

[@badxstudio]

lots of love buddy ❤️

[@supermattis108]

I 1. BODY TEXTURE: If you want to also TEXTURE the BODY simultaneously, you can! We already showed you the UDIM naming system and how the body textures get the suffix .1002 .... all you have to do is export the body as an FBX alongside the face mesh. In blender connect the body to the head mesh using CTRL+J and also perform the NON-MANIFOLD process that we did for the head but this time with the body as well. It should be fairly simple since the body doesnt have the extra color and normal maps. If you have questions let us know

[@bee1]

Is it possible to use that modified mesh as the MH mesh? My face has some details that Metahuman just cant do, no matter how I try it... e.g. dimple in the cheek and not-asian-eye, bigger and not so well outlined. I tried to use it directly on Unreal, but livelink animation stops to work :(

[@bee1]

Also, I´m happy to find you guys, before the 1kk subscribers, I´m sure you ll get there

[@badxstudio]

Yes so whats crazy about MH is that you can do freaking Aliens, Zombies and even one-eyed monsters hahahah Trust me I've seen those metahumans made before and we were like WHAT??? can you even doo that???? So of course that would mean you have to manually sculpt the mesh in blender (NOT AS A TEXTURE AND NORMAL MAP) and then re-connect the bones back in Unreal and do checks with the rig to make sure it works! So that tutorial is a little more complex than this but we are going to definitely do that for you as well! It will come however after our Egypt project so probably 2-3 weeks from now :)

[@alexhoverby]

Do you guys have an idea on how to make dirt show up on someones face from being kicked up from an explosion in sequencer?

[@Franckie.G]

Superbe what will be amazing to do will be to use photogrammetry not only mesh but also textures to make a metahuman clone

[@badxstudio]

Oh yes that is possible! You can copy the textures from the photoscan to put on the metahuman :))

[@Franckie.G]

@@badxstudio I know but i must have misunderstood something or my workflow is wrong somewhere beetween Reality capture , Metahuman creator , Substance painter , Unreal Ungine or everyone of them but i can't figure out how to do it everytime i try ...

[@Franckie.G]

@@badxstudio I just found the perfect workflow to do it , i will love to see you both upgrade your Metahuman's clones with it and show us how to replicate this awsome workflow properly kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4rPlmWhfs1_fKs

[@MickaelSchaack]

"outstanding" shao kan

[@badxstudio]

Thanks a lot

[@girlsonstream]

ребята, а есть курс по созданию человека на программе этой?

[@matthewaustinpye]

Would you happen to know how to solve for the way MH hair simulation looks in the MRQ? So much jitter

[@StudioAntoine]

Hi! I can't afford Subtance, do you know if it's possible to do the same in Mixer ? If yes, do you plan to make a tutorial on it? Thanks !

[@wondernexus3d482]

Amazing tutorial! But for some reason after I have imported the new textures they don't update on the model? My model looks the same :(

[@wondernexus3d482]

FIXED IT: I had the forced LOD set to 1 in the BP.

[@ERGTDev]

Hey guys, love your work - new subscriber. Any chance in going into custom Metahuman Clothes? Only thing that's holding me back from using them is finding or creating usable custom clothing - like workwear, coveralls etc.

[@badxstudio]

Hey mate! That's a valid concern. Since clothing is a beast of its own, you could say that if we are going to dive into it we are going to need to make sure its easy to digest while still teaching all important aspects of it. You can say it's definitely part of our plan, but we still have a few other MetaHuman tutorial sections coming before getting to clothing, such as customising the mesh and etc!

[@Djonsing]

*Is it possible to somehow apply a displacement map to metahumans? (I haven’t seen any lessons anywhere yet)*

[@Graphical_Gurujii]

hello, i am facing an issue while downloading Metahuman, it is so so so much slow, like just 128 MB in 4 hours. can't download it, tried many times, even i have a fast Wifi connection and i can download other big files too within minutes, but facing the issue with metahuman, pls help if u can

[@AtakonwinGaming]

Please Help me i am very excited for this because i download today 5.2 version but how to do I don't know plz explain in Hindi

[@filipefenner]

I'm trying to create a demon with metahumans, but I'm having a problem, I followed your tutorial, but some areas I sculpted had errors, I think it was after using the inflate brush, but I'm not sure , when I open fbx in substance painter, some areas of the mesh are without texture, and I can't paint over them, how can i fix this error please?

[@Pier-LucPoulin]

Awesome Video! Can you customise the 3d model too and send it back to metahuman creator after that? Is it possible? For exemple, i want to create intense deformations on the arm in zbrush. Can i create my metahuman - Export it to zbrush - sculpt it - and then send it back to metahuman? thanx in advance!

[@badxstudio]

Yes of course you can! Funny you brought it up, we are working on a Metahuman body and face mesh customisation tutorial which should be out within 2 weeks time. We are creating Darth Maul from star wars :D :D :D Stay tuned!

[@otnihelestradadiz6295]

Hello guys how can I found the neck opacity to cut the neck to attach the face to another body

[@WKogut]

I have a meta-human base that I want to make into Coën from the Witcher books, but the problem is, he is a witcher, so he has yellowish eyes with vertical irises, can somehow modify my model to reflect that?

[@lemonad903]

I would like to know if I can create a face, a scenery, or a scene and then sell it as an NFT on a marketplace just like with any digital creation software."

[@lovelearn341]

Does anyone know how to 3:14 export, import these MetaHumans to Blender? I've exported them, but they don't have materials as explained in the video. The latest video of Darth Maul export-import explanation was also too fast and not detailed enough with the MetaHuman to Blender importing process.

[@theholybookstoriestelugu9617]

How can add different body to metahuman face can you teach us

[@badxstudio]

You’d have to go to the metahuman blueprint and click body and switch it with something else … as long as the body size is the same it should work ❤️

[@dushantpanchbhai1722]

There is no export option showing in textures. How can i export them? (Note: i'm not exporting metahuman. it's a different paragon character)

[@daksosodakxx1477]

Hey thanks for the tutorial very helpful. Any time I drop my nex textures for the color Main face instead of seeing the colored texture on the sphere I see the sphere GREEN. Whereas I see that the textures went through. Any idea why guys>

[@badxstudio]

[@daksosodakxx1477]

@@badxstudio no both the sphere and the human face are green instead of being let’s say blue as per what I did on substance painter. The green sphere embedded the scratch I did for example on my texture but is green instead of being from the Colors I’ve made on substance

[@HarrisonHodnettYT]

Can I put the meta humans in my video games?

[@lovechopra07]

is there any way use metahuman in also others version . means i make in 5.0 but can't use in 5.1

[@caliberpokwana8872]

I wanna work with you guys so much🎉

[@MrHyperFace]

How do you change the eyes?

[@djoharda]

5:16 that is my logan head model hahaha

[@unNoticedwithShiva]

Hey brother, what is your computers specifications? Or the best spec to render these meta human I noted you have responded every comment, it would be great if u notice my comment too thanks ❤

[@badxstudio]

Helllooo helllo!! AMD RYZEN9 5900x Gigabyte b550 aorus elite ax Ram 64 DDR4 - 32*2 Nvidia RTX 4090 here is my specs :)

[@badxstudio]

Now as for the specs required you see Unreal Engine is designed to allow the masses to create beautiful giant worlds even with lower spec PC! Which is why we have Lumen and Nanite technology! But as for metahumans they can get a little heavier due to their complexity but Epic Games always makes sure to improve their performance. Processor: Six-Core Xeon E5-2643 @ 3.4GHz Memory: 64 GB RAM Internal storage: 256 GB SSD External Storage: 2TB SSD Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER What you see above is the MINIMUM RECOMMENDED specs to use for unreal engine 5. If you ask me I would say spend good money on your GRAPHICS CARD! Make sure to go for 30 series and above as that will always help you with handling your renders! but generally speaking it'd be hard for us to recommend something to you as we don't know your budget

[@otnihelestradadiz6295]

How to add opacity to the neck please guys ❤❤

[@Zzz-xo3hd]

yo guys , nice tut however i'm facing couple of issues , whenever i export the face mesh and import it to SP it seems to have lost all UVs , also am i able to manually wrap my sculpt on the metahuman face mesh using wrap3 or smth for more accurate results ?

[@badxstudio]

Did you figure this out?? So for the UVs make sure you follow TO THE DOT all the things we did prior to bringing it to substance ... they are crucial steps. And for wrap3 we know of a friend who does that so it shud be possible :)

[@Si-Toecutter]

does'nt seperate the eyes and eylashes and teeth anymore in latest versions

[@renzbolado153]

Did you ever find a way around this? I'm on the exact same spot

[@twistedjourney]

Hey how do I export the meta human into blender and do everything in there without substance painter and back into unreal?

[@badxstudio]

Well you can literally alter the textures in blender too. Just load them up you already have them exported from unreal no?

[@alisaberi6729]

Can you take some more time and record tutorials little bit slower and step by step, I’m beginner in ue5 and never used substance painter before, thanks

[@lovechopra07]

sir can you tell us , how to export metahuman in blender without losing quality !!!

[@badxstudio]

My g there are ways you can do that but trust me you kind of dont want to! One because epic only technically allows metahumans to be FINAL RENDERED in unreal. But even if you ignore that, they quite literally design metahumans to work flawlessly wiith LUMEN lighting and unreal renderer. IF you take iit to blender you are just adding more hassle to your work and its not gonna even run smooth due to all the bones animatiing in the face!

[@lovechopra07]

Thank you for the reply, make more metahumans tutorials. i love this tutorial ❤️🤖🎬

[@funnyfoggo]

HEYY Can you make tutorial on complex anime clothing please? i have 3d model with complex dress. Please let me know where I can send it, Much Love! - Asking Day 2

[@badxstudio]

For sure, we will put it on our list

[@shugordesign4848]

[@badxstudio]

[@24vencedores11]

i want you to discover how to make a baby metahuman. you are genius

[@badxstudio]

Baby metahuman just means big head and small body! Youu can change headsize in METAHUMAN CREATOR, for the body tho we need to alter the mesh outside. You can do a young kid because we can just shrink the body in blender or something. But to do a baby metahuman as the armature might be different might not be possible now!

[@gameclub_ir]

میشه با متا هیومن زامبی ساخت؟

[@badxstudio]

Areeee dadash! Kheyli ham khoob mishe sakht!

👍🏼

[@EvolvedFinch]

What is the point of this video if you don't even show how to put the model back into UE5?

[@squigglesz]

Its called import

[@ShrikeGFX]

Man they really setup these textures in a inefficient way

[@aryanparekh4897]

at 1:59 how do u open the texture?

[@aryanparekh4897]

i meant 1:57