The Blender to Unreal Engine Workflow

[@alestoryboards]

Basically model/retopo your stuff in blender and then do the rest in unreal (rigs/animation,render?!)

[@Bulborb1]

Model, sculpt, bake, unwrap low poly/retopo etc in blender. You can even texture procedurally then iterate inn unreal engine.

[@hellerart]

If you have an experimental workflow like me, where modelling and animation is not devided moving to unteal is next to impossible - probably I will use unreal for 10% - I would love to build some scenes specially around fluid ninjas features in unreal. And of course heavy nanite stuff.

[@christiankurschat5292]

​@@Hemlok69 and u6⁷

[@carlosdorantes9792]

Yup

[@swancoffeehouse5983]

​@@Bulborb1I just skip the whole sculp mumbo jumbo. Everything is box modelled. No retopo needed.

[@ThadeousM]

[4:37] If you do want to bring all objects over in 1 FBX file whilst retaining their individual origns: 1. Parent all objects to an empty in blender 2. Select empty last - Export fbx (selection only) 3. Import to UE as a "FBX scene" This will result in a "master" origin point represented by the empty, whilst each individual section retains its own vector data.

[@AlfeYT]

This is the GOAT tip

[@Battleevents]

"Allah! There is no god but He - the Living, The Self-subsisting, Eternal. No slumber can seize Him Nor Sleep. His are all things In the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede In His presence except As he permitteth? He knoweth What (appeareth to His creatures As) Before or After or Behind them. Nor shall they encompass Aught of his knowledge Except as He willeth. His throne doth extend Over the heavens And on earth, and He feeleth No fatigue in guarding And preserving them, For He is the Most High. The Supreme (in glory)." [Surah al-Baqarah 2: 255]

[@TanHanWei]

Thanks a lot for this!!

[@AbyssalSoda]

Haven't tried it but defs an excellent piece of advice

[@GohersWay]

+1

[@Fafhrd42]

For the issue where a person has done scene layout in Blender (or another DCC), and exported the entire scene as an FBX and is importing it into Unreal, the best way to import it into Unreal is to use File->Import Into Level, instead of just dragging and dropping the FBX into the Unreal editor. This preserves instancing, origins, and transforms. (Also, somewhat counterintuitively, you'll want to tick the 'Apply Transform' box when exporting the FBX from Blender, otherwise the meshes will be imported as 1 Blender Unit = 1 Unreal Unit, and an Unreal Unit is a centimeter, so they'll be tiny) The biggest downside to this method is that it *does* make re-importing individual meshes of that scene a little more complicated. You can either make individual FBXes for each of the meshes and import them separately and then change the reference for the mesh actor in the level, or you can go through the re-import dialogue and manually select the mesh you want to re-import.

[@frostydelusions3066]

Error at 2:55 is caused by your static mesh and texture having the same name, use the recommended UE naming conventions in Blender or else you will regret it later. "SM_Skeleton_01" for the Static Mesh and "M_Skeleton_01" for the Material, your maps need proper names too like "T_Skeleton_01_N" for the Normal Map. Also when importing a Normal Map created in Blender make sure you flip the Green Channel in UE.

[@DodaGarcia]

I wonder if that's the reason why a fully rigged character that I imported for Blender became a fucking Skulltula the second I pressed play in Unreal. It was traumatic.

[@ooffs_artflows]

W comment thanks

[@JonMurray]

@@DodaGarciahahaha!

[@sortakalpuyu]

hey where are you learning all of these

[@amosdotl6892]

Blender comment added.

[@NPC_YouTube]

i've been a 3d artist for 3 years now... I now just realized and learned to use boleans as a geometry clean up tool from now! thank you!

[@blwho8881]

Seems a bit tedious just select the faces and delete them

[@RobertVanderStelt]

The lighting you have in your office is soooooo nice.

[@fionahonohan2757]

It's almost been a year since I joined the 3D world by starting with Blender, and then I felt the need to learn Unreal Engine 5 (UE5). The information you shared in the video was very accurate, and I have had the same experiences.

[@Josh_Alfaro]

Me watching this not knowing how to use either

[@Taggedaslitho]

Same

[@Chillobserver]

You can always learn

[@FizzleStudiosLtd]

4:33 IF you are importing entire scenes / sets of meshes from blender you can quite easily change the pivot point for each object as needed. After importing, in the unreal editor modeling mode select your object, select the pivot option in the menu and select center. This will modify the pivot points for all instances of this mesh. Great tutorial, cheers!

[@sd.creative]

Glad to hear that I’m not the only one that doesn’t know which program to use and for what.

[@AeleksDesigns]

If you want to keep the origins of multiple meshes within a single exported .fbx file intact, make sure you select ".fbx scene" when in the "select asset to import"-window (unreal), not just .fbx ... it not a bug, its a feature (seemingly nobody knows about) ;)

[@NilayEmrah]

Their tech setup for bets is so advanced yet so user friendly, love it 🖥️💕

[@musashidanmcgrath]

A tip for the pivot offset when you import a full scene: you can hold Alt+MMB to move the pivot independently of the mesh. This is a one-time effect(good for a single translation) You can set the new pivot location permanently by right clicking the static mesh in the viewport>pivots>use one of the options.

[@facepunchoclock2878]

You casually revealed the solution to a problem I‘ve been having for weeks. Subscribed!

[@asr59]

4:28 that's not the only problem. Another problem is that will import the same mesh several times, instead of importing it once and instance it on the level.

[@Thesupperals]

Hey, just a helper here! Try to export with the USD file extension. It'll save you a lot of time. Also, lastly- you need to set each individual game object with individual origins. This is why you have the issue found in 4:55.

[@PrawnKing89]

Dude this is scary. I was literally looking for this EXACT topic and your video posted WITHIN THE HOUR. Awesome content. You have a new follower

[@shivendrapawar9618]

Same here!

[@coltish]

How did you know this is the content I needed right now?

[@Yeye10000]

I’m barely getting in to blender don’t know anything at all but still seeing this video as if I understood anything you go over haha

[@krystoferbelknap806]

Bro this video really just confirmed all my hopes for adapting to UE5 with a blender/c4d brain. Thank you...

[@bazebaze2657]

there is also a blender to unreal plugin that is really useful when correctly setup

[@timothycook]

Yeah, Unreal's official "Send to Unreal" add-on is pretty powerful.

[@josephdungan3566]

Thanks for sorting that all out on video. I'm trying to teach high school film students both programs so they can get more creative with what they create. This video is something I can definitely share with them.

[@armondtanz]

Ypu should look at reallusion. Im not very good a some things and that program helps me beyond all. CC4 & IC8 is a lifesaver ;) Theres a ic8 to unreal plug in that makes all the complex materials connect automatically (saving valuable time). Animation is sweet. Mocap clean up. Character Creator for creating humans and monsters.

[@RinaldoPalazuelos]

1:55

[@RinaldoPalazuelos]

🎉 2:25

[@jasoncourrau]

If you want to make complex materials in blender and import them to unreal, just bake the different PBR "slots" before hand. You can do it in blender, and there are nice plug-ins for it

[@ribthiefz8283]

Which one do you recommend?

[@scrunkus]

@@ribthiefz8283 Principled Baker is what I use, great quality bakes that are easy and fast to do. It's also free

[@PythonArms]

really cool! Thanks for making this video!

[@TheHassoun9]

for the 4:35 you can separate by loose part in blender, and do origin to geometry, now every object have its own parent bone and rotate around itself

[@LearnAsUGrow501]

Hello everyone. I am still green. I used to play around with Blender. Also used to play around with Unreal Engine 2 4 So much has changed I am sure. Looking forward to taking the next 2 years in Learning both. Namaste Dave Ross

[@christiandebney1989]

datasmith for 3dsmax is great as you can select all your objects and it brings them in exactly where they were so you can alter and swap out.

[@RealSpacial]

thank you for this, i was debating on which platform to start with and this video gave me a really good POV

[@keeleycarrigan]

Wanna hear more about what is best for each program. Keep it up

[@trunks2713]

Welp, I needed this video. thank you!

[@Gordoxgrey]

5:26 If you want any interactable cloth Simulation (Like cloaks or hair) it's best to do the cloth simulation in Unreal Engine and not have things in the sequencer

[@Battleevents]

"Allah! There is no god but He - the Living, The Self-subsisting, Eternal. No slumber can seize Him Nor Sleep. His are all things In the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede In His presence except As he permitteth? He knoweth What (appeareth to His creatures As) Before or After or Behind them. Nor shall they encompass Aught of his knowledge Except as He willeth. His throne doth extend Over the heavens And on earth, and He feeleth No fatigue in guarding And preserving them, For He is the Most High. The Supreme (in glory)." [Surah al-Baqarah 2: 255]

[@zerefdragneel661]

​@@Battleeventsk

[@BluesBlueable]

Can't wait for the movie: The Sword In a Stump 😜🔥🔥🔥

[@6Four6666]

I started mixing the blender with the unreal engine month ago and I thought I was the only one doing this!!!

[@sysghost]

Interesting to see how two different branches of the entertainment industry start to merge. Meet in the middle. Game engines are capable enough to be a viable option in the movie industry, and software from the movie industry can be used for games.

[@ToddSiechen-ud3et]

"And some fun foliage over there"... this is exactly my thought process when Im walking through the forest, "Oh look, some fun foliage over there.... and right here is some fun foliage, and FF EVERYWHERE!!"

[@Supreme-Emperor-Mittens]

All I know is this ... If EPIC ever decided to add a Full 3D Modeling Suite into UNREAL BLENDER could be in some trouble. 😨😱

[@PolyCharmStudios]

Even more powerful with high poly generator 😎

[@eric24g]

Crazy bc I was looking at unreal videos and said to myself. Im going to start modeling everything in blender and render in unreal engine. I downloaded unreal and haven't used it yet. Then this video showed up on my feed. I gotta get going now. Lol

[@aCrimsonMonarch]

to be honest, you dont need to thank us for watching, me myself watching you because i need to know and some advise for which one is better between unreal and blender, turnout combining them is the best choice, thank you for the vid sir

[@j.m5888]

Great video, very clear! Thanks a lot!

[@mergimdemkuanimationstudio4671]

one Word "DATASMITH", it is not perfect but works very good. I use it in Unreal 5.1 and i get all materials and textures into Unreal. As you said we need to prevent over work for nothing. The only Nodes that can be imported actually are the texture (image) nodes. Thats why i try to keep my uvs clean and for large areas i use cube map projection. For me Datasmith is actually better than using fbx for unreal imports. I hope it gets better :D

[@Viscte]

Thank you. Not enough people seem to be aware of datasmith

[@Covidcola]

I believe you can change the origin of the mesh in Unreal through the Modeling Mode, however it is best to do it as you mentioned.

[@JonathanWinbush]

Very informative 👊🏾

[@AmIAFilmmaker]

👊 Thanks! I've been learning from the best 😉

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@AmIAFilmmaker Appreciate it buddy, we should collab on a tutorial as I get a lot of questions about Blender but I barely know it

[@studiodevis]

@@JonathanWinbush Todd & Jonathan, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship ...

[@AmIAFilmmaker]

Oh man I'd be all about that! Down to collab any time.

[@MMALAB]

Great information here.

[@codes4046]

been needing a video like this! This clears up a lot of confusion about blender to UEFN (The Unreal Fortnite Editor) as well!

[@ahsanulhasanturzo8015]

Very nice video. It feels so nice to see people getting up-to-date by learning blender.

[@joseruano539]

Please SOM make a blender course and i'm 100% sure I'm gonna buy it, I need it so bad!

[@TonyTheYouTuba]

Great overview, these higher level view workflow videos are very useful, thanks.

[@joespadaford8736]

My biggest issue with unreal is that it is always crashing on me and I have a decent cpu. I hired a guy to do a set for some development and it just crashed all the time. He constantly had to optimize to add more foliage on his cpu because he was always running out of space. Also the files project file sizes were huge. I love the way unreal looks and I want it to be what I use but I can’t work on something that crashes all the time. A friend has a show that is all unreal. They had to hire a coder to make software to make it usable. I love that it’s working for you. I just don’t get how you get it to not crash all the time.

[@Native_Creation]

You need a decent GPU as well.

[@Johnyazell-r2f]

Your computer is prob at fault unreal is GPU dependent

[@Ahtisham]

Man this comment section is as helpful as this video was, this is so cool.

[@intr4]

im confused why u used booleans to clean up the photoscan mesh

[@zaks7]

4:48 I work with FBX imports to blender sometimes at work, and from what I've found, that's a limitation of the filetype. I don't know if its different in other software like 3ds max, but every time I import something as an FBX into blender, I have to deal with a whole host of messed up origins and relationship lines all leading to one random point. At least in blender you can just right click and set origin to geometry in all of them. It's slightly better when going from blender to unity because of the native .blend support. Maybe that's what a future update may bring us.

[@janvollgod7221]

yes, FBX is a pain in Blender. They improved it over the years, but its still not user-friendly. For concepts, i always use OBJ instead. Especially when exporting object with boolean and cutting on it. FBX mess, for no reason, randomly points up.

[@done.6191]

WONDERFUL. Thanks!

[@katbmwh1101]

Amazing stuff

[@missbootleg]

This was awesome thank you

[@saemranian]

It was so helpful and thanks for your sharing.

[@mipe7755]

Actually, you can use Datasmith to transfer pretty much the entire scene from Blender to UE, along with lights and some shader nodes, but I don't know if they ported the bridge to UE 5 yet.

[@janvollgod7221]

Datasmith don't work with Blender 3.xx and UE5.x as far as i know. Correct me if i am wrong please.

[@DavidBoura]

@@janvollgod7221 i'd like to know too.

[@Viscte]

There's an experimental version that's released for 5.2

[@GohersWay]

Hmn

[@cristhianferreyra610]

Buenísimo!!!🎉🎉🎉muchas gracias!!

[@framex_media]

Excelent, thanks for the insights!

[@skeletonking4119]

THIS!! IS! POWERRRRR!!

[@bigtoebennie]

Awesome thanks!

[@2009heyhow]

5:50 Would be great if we could use some live link plug in boft software packages. And that Blender or Unreal has a texture node system that works with the other software. This way you can texture your objects in Blender and see the real time result in Unreal. This already excists with Substance Painter but i left this texture package since Adobe took it over...

[@junito1957]

very very true , best with the best

[@rezainjust]

Great Video

[@VorpalForceField]

Great info .. Thank You for sharing .. Cheers :)

[@currenluna]

THANK YOU!

[@PERRIERhp]

UE5 supports GLB as far as i know, and GLB retains those PBR parameters so you might want export in GLB format. Or better use USD ( Universal Scene Descriptor) because it's the new industry standards and it just works, like everything without tweaking a bit.

[@wallacesousuke1433]

Blender doesn't support USD does it?

[@PERRIERhp]

@@wallacesousuke1433 it fully supports USD import and export, use newer version of blender

[@meme_tunnel]

Dat skeleton in thumbnail was actually my pc after watching this💀⚰️

[@DaveCastillo-t3c]

Hello! Love your page's concept. I’m interested in buying your artwork. Thanks! ❤️🙏

[@massivetree7937]

You can move the origin point in Unreal.

[@emilemassie]

Please take a look at USD (Universal scene description)

[@TheElephantRoom1]

exzzzzellent video

[@billymidnite]

Anyone have advice on animations/rigging? Should I rig and animate in Blender and bring that exported animation to Unreal? Or instead, should I create the mesh in Blender, bring it to Unreal, and rig/animate/pose within Unreal?

[@santiagocamino9324]

you can change temporaly the origin with Alt+middle click

[@vikentijslauruts2153]

hey man thanks, this helped me :)))

[@AviusL]

Excuse meeee?... Superinflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man*... Ty. Great video!

[@ZephyrofGale]

Thank you this helps a lot. I was worried all the time i spent in Blender would of been wasted if unreal engines 3d was better since I plan to use the unreal engine for my game/skills devleopment. It's nice to know it will still be useful.

[@flonkplonk1649]

* have been not "of been" 🤦🏼‍♂🤦🏼‍♂🤦🏼‍♂

[@BilgeSamet]

Can we talk about the speed of placing bets on 4ra? Blink and it’s done! 🌪️

[@janvollgod7221]

the new 5.2 is great. Many good stuff. What i miss is a Live Link Bridge or like Houdini has, directly a Node Access. The Point is, doing modification on the fly, for an already imported object, is a pain in the ass. Especially when positioning and scaling was involved. I know there was a good project for a Plugin, but obviously it's stalled 2015.

[@Viscte]

Like datasmith?

[@AarronChittock]

What scanning app are you using at the moment?

[@AmIAFilmmaker]

Polycam for quick and dirty stuff, and realitycapture for anything that I really want great detail from.

[@512design4]

basically shown how import fbx into unreal

[@dailysmoker4339]

thx bro

[@K2unit3d]

Not to take away from your video as you do have information that helps. There is a Blender to Unreal plugin for Unreal that allows importing of whole scenes. Every object and collection can be imported and uses the PBR workflow node to automatically setup your materials.

[@wallacesousuke1433]

Is it up-to-date? The page date says: July 29, 2020

[@K2unit3d]

@@wallacesousuke1433 As far as I know. I used it with 5.2 for work and it did everything properly. I can say the only thing it doesnt do is bring textures in that arent setup with the principled shader

[@wenstelowarm3036]

great

[@MrInnovativeEnergy]

no SendToUnreal?

[@laf0106]

Haha all thw comments are just telling him how to do it correctly lol love it

[@ez6314]

Should you rig in blender or unreal engine?

[@Go_Reala]

New sub

[@o7z-o7z]

5:55　物理演算などをalembicファイルで出力しueに持っていく

[@noushinpourmirza3054]

Thank you so much. I imported the USD file into Unreal, and the first time, my mesh appeared without the curve modifier. After applying the modifier in Blender and re-importing it into Unreal, nothing showed up. Could you please help me figure out how to fix this? Thank you.

[@prototype9000]

it would be to powerful if blender had a better interface and wasnt so damn slow to develop on

[@FruitZeus]

What about character animation? I am not that interested in performance capture. I still like the idea of using traditional keyframing and crafting out character animations. That being said, I AM interested in unreal's renderer. A huge reason why I love staying inside of blender is that you can stay pretty non destructive if you choose to. The minute I start exporting to .fbx files and having different versions of things that way. I am concerned that my process becomes destructive in some way. Any tips on that workflow? I'd love to hear the best way of tackling this process

[@wereissankofa]

I definitely have faced the same issue. Something I once tried was exporting my character to character creator 4 then sending it to iclone 8,applying all my animations and sending it to Unreal using live link. The process is painful 😅.

[@Battleevents]

"Allah! There is no god but He - the Living, The Self-subsisting, Eternal. No slumber can seize Him Nor Sleep. His are all things In the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede In His presence except As he permitteth? He knoweth What (appeareth to His creatures As) Before or After or Behind them. Nor shall they encompass Aught of his knowledge Except as He willeth. His throne doth extend Over the heavens And on earth, and He feeleth No fatigue in guarding And preserving them, For He is the Most High. The Supreme (in glory)." [Surah al-Baqarah 2: 255]

[@wallacesousuke1433]

@@Battleevents 💩🤡💣💣💣💣💥

[@jasonsharp8621]

I'm curious about vfx effects transferring in to UE5 from Blender.

[@MrWizarddog]

So only use Blender for modeling. Got it.

[@Mr.Indiyaah]

better than C4d + Aftereffects

[@_S_P_A_C_E_M_A_N_]

I wouldn't say this workflow replaces after effects

[@Mr.Indiyaah]

Project avalanche

[@KillAllCommies2]

Nothing about characters with characters with skeletons and poses... onto the next video

[@A.P.0000]

I am pretty sure youtubes algorithm is psychic. Yesterday i downloaded ue5 to test it out. Today i tried exporting my models to unreal and got some errors. I opened youtube and the first thing it suggests is this video. What the actual f...😂. Thanks for the video by the way.

[@chelo111]

whats going of with black magic-JOHN OWENS

[@SamBenPro]

Hey great video thanks, how about you make scene comparisons? Render times, quality, path tracing etc..

[@slycreature972]

"Send to Unreal" plugin is MUCH more comfortable than exporting .fbx!