Import Character in Unreal Engine - Maya to Unreal | Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial | Sonali Singh

[@SonaliSingh]

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[@maurobotero8646]

Great video!! Something that I was looking for when learning how to prototype animations at college. Looking forward to seeing more awesome Unreal stuff!!

[@SonaliSingh]

Awesome, thank you! 😊

[@LongestYardstick]

Thanks!

[@SonaliSingh]

That's so nice of you. 😊 Infact that's my first ever Super Thanks on KZbin. 🥳

[@PankajKumar-ej5dt]

Thanks for this. It was very helpful. Finding someone like you is good because there's a sea of information out there just not what we really need.

[@SonaliSingh]

Thanks for the kind words. Do share with others if you found this video useful. 😊

[@henri2d2]

this video helped me a lot to understand about Game ready rig, I've been trying to understand why some more common rigs we don't see in Unreal for some time. Thank you very much for this video =)

[@LiborCevelik]

Hello , i would like to ask you why wont you export animation from Maya as Alembic and Import to UE and render there ?

[@sangamyadav3290]

Hi, I have tried importing alembic files. Yeah you can import animations as alembic file but for every changes you have to revisit the maya files and bake the animation again and again as per changes and reimport them. But the method she talked about is mainly for game ready Charecters. So the perpose is to import and use them as player Charecter in games. Alembic files doesn't have that flexibility it will be just like an animated static mesh only can be used for rendering. By her method you can bring multiple animations which will follow the same skeleton. If I am not wrong you can even use the control rig animation tool to make more animation on the same Charecter inside unreal engine.

[@SonaliSingh]

Thanks Sangam for such an awesome explanation. 😊 I really appreciate viewers participating in these kind of discussions and helping each other.

[@sangamyadav3290]

@@SonaliSingh Thanks Sonali ! You are doing great, keep it up.

[@WhiteBossGamerYT]

Mam superb explainesion and your room lighting was also fantastic

[@SonaliSingh]

Thanks a lot 😊

[@playerankushnaruka4534]

@@SonaliSingh Aapki jab kaha lagi he kis desh me

[@raphcrafter]

Thank you ! I was looking specifically for exporting Zelda ! Great tutorial !

[@ballcake.8698]

I love how you keep it light an fun :)

[@alw7202]

Just what I needed to understand more about the rig setups & info for importing into UE4 from Maya..... and thank you for the extra "Manny" rig for Maya, it will come in very useful, Sonali... I bought you a "Ko-Fi" in appreciation...... Keep up the superb work, Sonali, and "Thank You!!". :))

[@SonaliSingh]

Glad it was helpful. Thank you so much for my first ever "Ko-fi". 😊 It means a lot.

[@iDidntAskToBeBorn765]

TO As Ref Pose was the settings that i needed , thank you

[@SonaliSingh]

I know how many people miss these settings hidden under the Advanced category and only a few will explain the significance of them. Glad it was helpful 😊

[@sunny99179]

im curious. what is the good rig method to make it from maya to unreal? i learned using both 'creating from scratch' on blender and using the blender metarig,but i would like to know if i can use the blender's rig when i import to maya and export to unreal, OR i need to learn all again on maya? i just discovered right now i need to learn maya due to unreal live link that is something amazing for me that want to use unreal engine and blender always get me out of nerves with the material not exporting correctly. so thank you

[@LongestYardstick]

this video was a massive help to myself and my team -- I really appreciate you and the work you do, and will be sponsoring you through the "$ thanks" link -- thank you so much!

[@SonaliSingh]

Glad it helped. 😊 Do share if you like so more people can take advantage of this information.

[@worbarry9735]

really straggling trying to get animations exported from a rig using Advanced Skeleton the imported animation to unreal are the right length but there is no joint movement, i dont understand what i am supposed to bake or how to do it i have tried Animation > Bake Simulation but it does not work?

[@jonathandong1422]

Whenever I make a root control if I bring in the animation to unreal the object doesn't move. It only moves if I put animation on the joints themselves or the object. Do you know what I'm doing wrong?

[@tinglin9731]

Sonali Singh, I have some question, I usePowder in AdvancedSkeleton as my character, and I want to export the rig to Unreal, I've follow all the tutorials, my fbx always broken after I export it from maya2022, I have no idea what's going on.

[@tungishgarg8530]

great video just one question when i am importing my charachter i am facing a problem of my textures not getting imported instead i am getting blank material with same name please reply at earliest i have a competition tomorrow everything else is working great thanks for the amazing video

[@kyleashley]

thank you very much for your clarity and explanations of each of the options.

[@SonaliSingh]

You are welcome! 😊

[@CHITUS]

Great video!!

[@ambiencescene]

So much good input! Thank you!

[@ocimarcardoso847]

Hello Sonali, how are you? Is it possible to export the rig with IK AND FK CONTROLS?

[@sawomirszostek3118]

Great video! do you happend to know why my textures are not showing up on model in Maya viewport? I can't get to get this right

[@jonathanwennstromm1578]

Appreciate it, worked like a charm :)

[@SonaliSingh]

Awesome!!! 😊

[@davidtadic4716]

I think that can be done in UE to work as correction blend shapes, just need to be set up manually.

[@kurushmasalawala2852]

Hie this Video is surely Helpful , but the problem which i am facing is whenever I am importing my character in Unreal One of my object is missing , i dont know what to do to reslove it .

[@arshankhan6833]

Whenever I try to import two different characters from mixamo but I can't able to put in sequence because one of the character is automatically apply second character animation but my second character mesh or texture not showing

[@syaorandarkfire]

Thanks for the video.

[@specieficdemon3902]

Can I import a character with the advanced skeleton rig? And if I can how do I create the root bone for the motion and stuff?

[@dpredie]

Sonali, is it possible to drive an epic skeleton as a target if i have a non epic skeletal animation as the source? ( the plugin that im working with drives VRM bones in UE, i would like it to drive epic skeleton instead). all tutorials are the other way around ( epic anim retarget to drive non epic skeleton)

[@stefanomattianardi91]

You can definitely animate any rig in maya, make an alembic cache of it, smooth it and bring it in UE4 to make a video.

[@SonaliSingh]

Haven't tried Alembic yet. But thanks for the tip. 😊 Maybe I'll give that a go to render all the body mechanics shot.

[@stefanomattianardi91]

@@SonaliSingh Next Monday I'm going to publish an animation I rendered this way. I felt like a pioneer, because I didn't see many experimenting with alembic cache, but it's doable and you can find a good tutorial here on KZbin. Search for "exporting alembic animation to unreal the correct way". Be sure the alembic doesn't have any face with more then 4 edges and it comes in smoothed, otherwise perform a clean up, smooth it manually in Maya and save it again. Unreal wants quads and can't really smooth a mesh, if I got it right.

[@reke9942]

The only problem is materials and textures don't always work correctly with the alembic approach.

[@stefanomattianardi91]

@@reke9942 You need to create new materials for Unreal Engine, of course. You can't expect to convert the materials. I'm not sure for the textures, I think the UVs are kept intact, so somehow you should be able to reuse the textures or convert them. I didn't do that tho. What did you mean by "don't always work correctly"? Is there any other problem?

[@princeraghav5849]

Love you ❤

[@jonathanwennstromm1578]

Is this still the same process for UE5?

[@Dae-hyeon]

EEEEEExtremely helpful THX

[@romulino]

Makes me think about all the time it took for me to be able to do this in blender... 😮

[@furyodev1842]

Thanks, great video. I have a question tho, I see on every Unreal/Maya tutorial that they say you should have the up axis as Z in Maya in order to export your character to Unreal. Why in your case you didn't need to do that?

[@AGDTamilGamer]

you teaching so sweet,,, i love

[@SonaliSingh]

Thank you! 😃

[@AGDTamilGamer]

I'm new to unreal engine, so how to start this field, pls tell the way to success full game build.

[@silmusashi]

Great video. Are you going to talk about how to import animation cycles to the imported rig in Unreal next? That would be great series.

[@SonaliSingh]

Good Guess! That's what I intend to post next. 😊

[@cutatube]

Great tutorial! Unfortunately, Unreal crashes everytime when I import the .fbx. Any thoughts?

[@SonaliSingh]

Try and check if you can open the exported character in FBX Review. There might be an error in exported file.

[@RDD87z]

take a look at cascadeur animation software. its an amazing tool for making your animations look realistic ( physics based ), posing characters is rly easy too.

[@SonaliSingh]

Thanks for the suggestion Ruben. I know Cascadeur is really powerful and Efficient at automating the poses based on physics. I tried it during its EA days but haven’t got the chance to explore it lately. Would be lovely to give it a try now.

[@RDD87z]

@@SonaliSingh Ah nice. You know it pretty well, then. Not surprising. I saw your reel where you've some of the ue4 manequinn anims (also first person). You made them with maya i guess, right? in that case, did you use the Animation & rigging Toolset (A.R.T) from epic?

[@bernhard.rieder]

a common problem, exporting character rigs from Maya to Unreal is the different Y and Z axis. When using the Human IK, do you know how to change this when importing to UE4? Thx and keep rocking!

[@whatevr8082]

Thanks for the awesome tutorial! Is there an easy way to export rigs done using Mgear?

[@SonaliSingh]

Thanks. 😊 Haven't used M-Gear yet. But you definitely take a look at the official channel here - kzbin.infofeatured Hope you find what you're looking for. If not then I'll post a video once I get to try it myself.

[@SuperMontana2008]

Any chance of that mgear video​?@@SonaliSingh

[@iDidntAskToBeBorn765]

thank you so much you saved me , here a sub

[@SonaliSingh]

Do share this video! It might be helpful to others and I'll get a few more subs like yourself 😉 Thanks for the Sub. 😊

[@pkanimations3767]

When I try to export Lisa I get many errors. The errors are: Embed Media, Skin Definition, No Morph Target Found, unsupported maps, Constraints export failed. Does anyone know how can I fix these? :(

[@Smartmeer]

great video . please make one video of workflow character animation MAYA TO UE4 with advance skeleton rig. :)

[@SonaliSingh]

Yup, that has been on my list now. I'll make one soon. 😊

[@worbarry9735]

why does no one use the game exporter?

[@Rockingbird221]

谢谢你的视频，学习了不少

[@SonaliSingh]

Glad that you found the video helpful. 😊

[@anchitmathur1816]

I think you can just get the cache from maya and take it to ue4 and render it.

[@rajneeshelectroaxz9293]

how long will take to learn unreal engine ??

[@SonaliSingh]

It totally depends on what you want to learn. Coz learning the whole software by yourself with constant updates will take ages if it's even possible. 😅 Keep small goals and focus on a single feature. Learning the basics and Getting started with UE4 won't take more than a few weeks even if you're new to the engine. If you want to learn something specific then feel free to drop a suggestion in the comments and I'll try to cover the topic if possible. Good Luck 👍🏼

[@kushalbaid]

Nice

[@SonaliSingh]

Thanks 😊

[@stever73]

Didn't work. Sorry about the blunt response, but I'm extremely frustrated because I'm running into constant issues and NOBODY has troubleshooting videos. All of these tutorials run smoothly and perfectly and I can't duplicate the process despite following step by step.

[@SonaliSingh]

Sorry to hear about that. Did you try posting your problem on Unreal Developer Network or Unreal Slackers (now called Unreal Source on Discord). I’m sure you’ll get your answer. You can also share the post link with me so I can take a look.

[@playerankushnaruka4534]

Didi I want to learn complete game development 0 to complete and then establish my own company Plz tell me the best platform and course at affordable price range (right now I am 16 that's why I have to ask my parents and I don't want instant rejection by parents 😂) where I can learn game development Plz plz your reply will mean a lot to me 🥺

[@reke9942]

You want to learn and do the whole game development pipeline on your own? 2D or 3D?

[@timepass9873]

Value for making video

[@SonaliSingh]

Thanks 😊

[@timepass9873]

@@SonaliSingh You are very humble

I'm in love!

[@王温候]

美女的女士，终于看到了新的视频了，你比之前更加的漂亮了，但是有个问题，视频里面没有字幕，无法同步翻译，所以都不知道美丽的女士讲了什么内容。

[@SonaliSingh]

Thankyou :) I've added the subtitles, so it'll all make sense now.

[@王温候]

@@SonaliSingh Thank you, beautiful lady

[@akshaypawar8025]

are you indian

[@NeroForte_]

I got distracted smh

[@SonaliSingh]

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