How to ACTUALLY export Blender scenes to Unreal Engine 5

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[@ZephG]

Bless you for this. You're absolutely right in saying so many tutorials out there are ridiculously long winded. Thank you for keeping this information clear and concise!

[@huntermaverickwells7289]

Good tip. This makes sense and is easy. I also saw the tutorial with the sandy tower assets, and knew there had to be a more practical/less anti-pattern way.

[@dabblerlabs]

1 yr later this is still the best solution. And the only video to mention it, thanks. Note: there's currently a bug in Unreal that makes your BP invisible when adding it to the level. The only fix I found was to click the play button, and then everything will be visible.

[@mizzymcmizzbutt5560]

omg I was so confused as to why the bp wasn't working right. Thank you so much for commenting this!

[@al-tayf]

hey how to add collisions to all at once, is there any trick to do all at once or we have to separately or individually add collision to each and every object

[@SoaringSimulator]

Finally, a Unity dev that explains how Unreal works! 😂🤣🙃

[@Josh.Atkins]

Hily hell FINALLY someone shares a solution that works. I have a scene with hundreds of unique objects so snapping them to the world origin and exporting one by one is not feasible when you just have to rearrange the whole scene again in Unreal. You tha real MVP

[@ionthedev]

I'm so glad this video keeps helping people even a year after releasing it.

[@abhiraaid]

how can we control each object, it seems to have same property(eg. material) and no hierarchy in the outliner. Any workaround?

[@ionthedev]

Each object is imported in as its own static mesh. On the import menu you can select the rules for the materials. In the blueprint it makes containing all of them, it will have static mesh components for each individual mesh that you can then interact with separately.

[@macada3163]

Bros, I thought this method was bullet proof but unfortunately I realised something: - Global illummination (Lumen) kinda entire point of UE5 does not work when I import FBX scene like this... Check it yourself, if you change view to Lumen Visualisation View -> Overview your imported objects will be invisible to lumen. Please let me know if there is any solution at all to this, thx

[@griseldaflores6362]

Have you tried turning nanite off on the mesh on ue5? Sometimes I find that works for me when a material is being stubborn and doesn't appear

[@HubertKnoblauch3DContentOnline]

alternately you can use the other method, exporting all, but retaining each individual pivot. not sure why no one is using it. but good tip on the port-to-blueprint, did not know that!

[@Chukakennedy]

What method is that, can you please let me know that

[@kellyvill9413]

What's the best way to export a scene with instanced arrays?

[@2iemniak666]

and with this short 4 min video you gained a subscriber. Also: i absolutely love that you don't beg for subscriptions like others do. "Subscribe if you want" Yeah, that's how it should be done

[@KB-kp2oz]

a 4 minute video with a guy talking crap for 90 seconds. Easy pass.

[@ionthedev]

Thank you for the engagement!

[@rangeslider]

You made my day twice, first by showing me a new workflow that really helps me & second, with your warmth & positivity. Bless you! Have a lovely week ahead!

[@Restart-Gaming]

Will this also work for exporting female models

[@abaddonarts1129]

This was very helpful to me, I'm just joining a large project and we didn't know how to do this successfully. I think it should work for our uses and it'll save so much time!

[@pierreseaumaire6988]

What about animation please ??? When I import with animation there is ton of differents animation data, I just want one ! Please help me i lov u

[@jenerub]

Dude, it's so simple, but also something I've overlooked a ton of times. Thanks for the info man, lifesaver!

[@didi8150]

I guess I am the only one with trouble.everytime it says me that no mesh or animation is found .. dying

[@hamadachibout7090]

bro this really helped me out, GREAT JOB!!!

[@hellerart]

Does this also wotk for a spaceship that hat lets say 200 parts and they are parented to each other? For example parented in a way that some parts like jet exhausts or doors can be animated easily be rotating them aound the origion... well I will simple try LOL EDIT: Okay cool, works, my first crane in Unreal engine

[@fritslyneborg]

And now for the materials?

[@LucasPfaff]

not gonna lie, this is the single most useful video I found on the matter, so thank you for that. The issue that I just can't get around is importing the camera of my scene properly. Importing through the FBX scene function it does import, but there's no animation on it, even if I hit the "Dynamic" option during the import. Importing it seperately to a camera actor in the sequencer, it doesn't match the scene. I only want to export a scene of a tracked camera with some ref geometry to go from there, and this seemingly easy task is somehow very hard. Do you maybe have an idea how to get the camera in there properly alongside the fixed scene?

[@jorgebernier5d]

Can you delete the empty in Unreal and still keep the objects with theirs empties intact? Great tutorial by the way. Thanks for sharing it

[@shivangipriya4153]

Thank you, but I need to copy materials direct like what did .. how I do??

[@franklinfache]

What if my scene have parenting and child of constraints, does that carry over to unreal?

[@godofdream9112]

Hai I am using ue4, its not working properlay...each mesh imported separate, and the jointed (all mesh group to the emty) one is very small, and dont move.

[@Inputbrick]

fucking incredible video ty

[@ionthedev]

Thank you @inputbrick, now please don't hurl yourself through my window.

[@BooneyianLogic]

i love the adult swim style intro

[@ionthedev]

Thank you so much! I like to have fun with my edits, got some plans for the next one.

[@alexjun8314]

Thanks for the tip! This helps a lot for those who use these two tools, but when I use this method, the materials are all messed up. For example if a material has 3 slots, with M1/M2/M3 it looks something like M2/M3/M2. If I click to go back to the default, it is normal, but in a scene with hundreds of objects it is completely impractical to do this one by one, do you know how to fix this?

[@sadecese2302]

blender-set origin points to mesh-done

[@Hannantonova]

🤟Nice! I like such tutorials, short and helpful!

[@SoaringSimulator]

In Unreal at 2:40, You selected "RootNode" insted of only "Empty". Is that nesesary (to live RootNode selected) or will add additional staff?

[@manisond967]

why the objects in the static mesh option are so small? I have a lot of problem with this when I tried to create blueprint with one of the mesh.

[@samhallvfx]

Thank you for making this make sense. I love a tutorial that gets right to the point.

[@ionthedev]

That's the whole thang. Anyone working in this field knows how important attention span is, especially when working in a crunch which is far too often.

[@paulopetrone6692]

Imagine having to individually export every object into your scene. This will save so much time. Thank you

[@RandMpinkFilms]

Yeah, golden tip! Thank you!!

[@MIHAO]

i dont even use unreal but this is gold

[@MG619Day]

Why can’t I walk on my scene? I uploaded an entire city but I can’t walk on it. I can only walk around it like if it was a big object.

[@noxagonal]

I think it's the collision ue5 generates. Check your meshes, there are 2 types of collisions in ue, simple and complex. Simple is typically used to determine where you can walk to and is generated by ue when importing a mesh. See the mesh details in ue.

[@noxagonal]

I just started with ue5 and blender... I know blender, but know barely anything about ue5. I almost immediately encountered this... Thanks for showing, I'm going to try this today. I remember someone talking about a script for either ue5 or blender to more easily import stuff. I should probably try that too.

[@Doubleaa500]

Wait. So you mean people try and make this harder??? Lol This is perfect!!

[@wrillywonka1320]

Any updates since blender 4.0 ?

[@cokemango]

I cant thank you enough, I spent over a week trying to get my UE5 to not crash when importing over 11k objects.

[@luisxdsalas3822]

i a have problem whit the scale :,(

[@artistatic]

600th subscriber i think lol XD

[@arisynily1882]

Alembic File Format: Am I a joke to you?

[@fernandodesa952]

amazing man! im new to the 3D world but i feel the best pipeline is create your stuff in Blender and Render it in Unreal 5 to take advantage of nanite, lumen and fast rendering in high quality, top tutorial appreciate a lot

[@OficinadoArdito]

That's LIFE SAVING stuff!

[@RDD87z]

finally! i couldnt believe nobody really showed this before. thank you, man!

[@ionthedev]

Anytime! I discovered it on accident and was mind blown. Glad to have helped!

[@totheknee]

1:14 - 🗳Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ionthedev]

AND I'LL DO IT AGAIN TOO

[@cullenmanning141]

life saver, thank you so much

[@Brand.on18]

Great tip, fam! Gonna save some time for sure.

[@alecek]

This is a nice tip! But the scale is wrong ! You have to switch Blender Units to 0.01 and to centimeters so your scale in UE to be 1.0 and not 100, like in your case 2:56! I think its important for Unreal rednering and in general its better to work in a proper scale , because it can cause problems further on with lighting and etc! ANd keep in mind do the scale thing in Blender before you start modeling or you have to scale your objects by 100 and then apply scale again in BLender!

[@spydergs07]

Or scale/move the object in Edit mode and then you don't have to apply the scale/location/rotation.

[@vilshady5110]

Love u man

[@ionthedev]

Love you too

[@MarvelMaster]

nice

[@Stimulated_Vision]

I think this is the way that it is meant to be done. Sheesh miles of trash import tutorials just to find this one.

[@HazyBabyyy]

How about texture

[@stonbax]

Nice trick. I wonder if it's still possible to reimport the objects individually? like if you want to edit just the cube in blender, but not the whole scene

[@Doubleaa500]

I'm sure you can replace the actor? or mesh? There is a replace option

[@stepovyk01]

Finally. Thank you so much.

[@CoKeHQ1]

Thank you so much, it sure has felt like so many blender to UE guide makers just googled and talked about what they find, that being the same non useful stuff and just believing there is no better way before unreal engine patches things. but you arrive with the quick and actually really useful information!

[@smendez1]

I stumbled upon this video while searching for how to setup exports from blender to ue4 and this was a godsend. Thank you

[@uberdragon2986]

Brilliant! That was super helpful, you’ve earned a sub

[@ArthyProjects]

Hi! Never thought, there is a such import option, i always imported the same method, but via the iport to level tab, gives a exactly this result, described in the video, but your method is faster, thanks for the info!

[@chriszagas]

Legend!

[@cokehorse1]

good fuckn work !!

[@macada3163]

You brilliant, brilliant man.. thank you so much, just as I lost all hope with all these other rubbish export options. Thank you so much! Another pretty good one is exporting as USD (Universal Scene Description) - it exports very cleanly , fast and pivots are as in Blender - unfortunately I cannot get different materials within same object to work this way, they always come out with only one default material :( But your solution with empty and FBX scene is excellent!

[@JamesKaudewitz]

YOu might be interested to look at the Omniverse branch of Blender (through the Omniverse Launcher). It has improved USD/Material exports built by nvidia

[@ChadBossingham]

You are amazing!! Thank you for this straightforward tutorial. This was perfect!

[@steve_rico]

Very useful!!

[@paulhildebrandt737]

AWESOME !!!!!!

[@omerrudnick8195]

The textures don't have to be baked right?

[@ionthedev]

it does not

[@KUREHA3D]

bless! thank you for this!

[@ws6nick]

Interesting, so does this create proper individual mesh distance fields for each mesh or one big one for everything in the fbx?

[@ytmusic9819]

how do i change the material?

[@fluidexpressions6856]

very helpful

[@bikelife_gus319]

Can I do this on a map I already made ?

[@ionthedev]

Is the map made in blender or unreal. If unreal then most certainly! Blender you will need to do these steps with every object.

[@hireathecho4]

This was amazing! Wish I'd found this before... could have saved me so much time. Thank you!

[@AndrewLyon23]

Doesnt work the same for mine. Once the fbx scene is imported when I drag the elements onto my project it has changed and shrunk them all to a weird degree.

[@davestomper3428]

Smart Polly did a video for an add on that makes things exported from blender to unreal 4 and I believe it works on unreal 5 the work flow looks straight forward and seems to work by even bringing over models textures looks like a pretty good ad on and it might help with work flow if you guys are interested in checking it out but great video thank you

[@wegotguns3325]

Do you have any tutorials about importing into ue with materials intact? Whenever I import an fbx from blender the metal, roughness and the normals will be missing.

[@ionthedev]

I have a video planned discussing this. This has to be done very specifically

[@dacarly1330]

does this work with animation

[@periapsis413]

Wow so insanely useful. I like blocking things out in Blender first so this is perfect for me. Thanks for the video

[@wyattblends7643]

Got my sub. That's for damn sure

[@wyattblends7643]

Cool name btw

[@jacksparrowramirez3312]

thanks!

[@Sir_Loin_]

Genius

[@jannisgnadt2524]

THX such a lifesaver

[@ionthedev]

Glad to have been able to help you out!

[@chumcool]

DOPE!

[@pxrposewithnopurpose5801]

thats insane

[@Andrei-YT01]

thanks. but what about materials? how to make it more efficient?

[@hugochan4309]

Hi Ion, thank you for the tutorial. I also want to ask, is it possible to build nanite to the mesh through this import method? Thank you!

[@bonjourbonjour1008]

giga ultra mega iq

[@Speedy-nq9ro]

Hey how would you do this with UE4?

[@ionthedev]

It should be the same process. I'm not too sure though since I've only used unreal 5

[@rezainjust]

this is a great tutorial.

[@midgetvikinggames924]

Good work.

[@Ex7aSzY]

Broooooooooo 🎉🎉🎉

[@Ex7aSzY]

Thank you so much !!!

[@TRANSISTOOR]

Great tip! Thank you!

[@g0th1cazn]

I was wondering how to do this because I want to make scenes or object in blender and do want to recreate it in unreal.

[@Blue_snapdragons]

What about the blender to UE pipeline addon?

[@stonbax]

Honestly I tried it and I thought it was really good but actually it cost me a lot of time because you still have to check your materials textures and stuff so I still think that classic fbx import is better than the "send to ue" addon. Also I got problems with reimport because it was reimporting the wrong objects everytime. Also It does't support renaming so you have to keep the garbage folder names like "untitled asset"

[@slamotte]

Sweet and simple. Thank you :)

[@JamesClement_DarthDisembowel]

Brilliant! So many advantages to doing it this way. Thanks!

[@tinman3000]

I'm fairly new to UE5 and I'm not sure why but when I import the objects, the gizmo is really far away from them. I did import the textures as well... not sure if that makes any difference though.

[@ionthedev]

This is probably due to the position of the mesh in the 3D software when you export into unreal. One thing you may want to look into is the Send2Unreal blender plugin by Epic Games. I will do a video on this soon.

[@tinman3000]

@@ionthedev thanks... if I can use a plugin to do the heavy lifting, I'm totally good with that. I look forward to the video... until then, I've subscribed to your channel.

[@hasaraka]

So damn good you got me a subscribe and like. Flawless perfect and makes just damn sense.