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An oldie but a goodie! Glad it helped, thanks!

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Correct, only the low poly.

Thanks! Glad to help

Thanks! Glad it still helps

In UE5, yes, you have to make some changes.

Lol that's because this is an old version of the addon and UE4. The settings are mostly the same, just a few more options.

@@ryanz2814 not that ...the real problem are the characters we chose to do ....because each one is diffrent (on the examples youtube chose one simpliest character posible ,,a bald 1 piece mesh) but when we chose a character there a tone of difrences on them ...like milion meshes splitted ,or sketchfab not equal with mixamo characters diffrent types , or no A or T pose characters , or clothes on wich give more problems .... or other things that differs from the videos .....so we get stuck mostly event at starting :)))))) ...(mentioning we= noob blender users like me) so any tutorial i chose not propper for my chosen characters :))))) ......i done a few from mixamo wich are better to do because they come with T pose and just drag them intoo blender and do those steps ....but mixamo char are ugly mostly :)))) ....so external ones are more complicated etc ...so for example today the hole day i have imposting .blendering and exporting to fbx ,,,, (sketchfab) not even one i got to work properly inside unreal .... :)))) the result is always funny as fk :))))

@MaxStudioCG2023 ahhh I got you. Yeah, I could go into depth about that. If rigging a mesh with lots of parts is giving you fits, let me know and I can offer you some pointers.

@@ryanz2814 yeah .thnks ...i usualy try remove some unnecesary parts from it ,then i join other parts to 1 entire mesh :))))) so i can do the rig haha ... (then only left you dont get A or T pose on all characters ...i noticed some of sketchfab chars (free ones) the ones with bones already those can remove the bones and able to redoo A or T pose and from there rigg as normal ....the ones that are twistted in diffrent posses with no bones those kinda canot do rig on them ...i gues require more blender skills wich i dont have haha ....but i just playing around and test diffrent ones to see wich i can grab for now .

Yes, just select the "full facial" option when you export. If you import this rig as the ue skeleton, it will add the bones (since they are outside of the main hierarchy like IK bones). If you're doing facial mocap, however, you'll want to use shapekeys/blend shapes/morph targets instead of a rig.

Thank you@@ryanz2814

Hey thanks man glad it helped!

It's getting better for real. it still can't handle near the vert count that zbrush can, but they've added vdm support in the latest blender version and that helps a ton.

Glad to help! Also, it should be noted, you can use materials instead of vertex colors to do this as well!

​@@ryanz2814 Yeah that's what I might have to end up doing again. I was trying to avoid it because I need it all to be one material when imported to Unreal. However, now I'm dealing with too many of those nasty artifacts all over my model. Not sure the cleanup time would be worth it.

Are you importing to ue4 or ue5?

I honestly don't remember where I got those alphas at all, but shoot me an email and I will dig around for some for you on my hard drive

As far as I know, you need a dedicated GIS software, like arcgis to do this. The other option would be to convert it to a .png or other color file. This can help. kanae.net/secondlife/bil2bmp.html

So with the armature selected, in the ARP menu under rig, you'll see a drop-down to add armature. Select the bone group you want to add (arm, head, spine, leg, tail, spline ik, bendy chain, etc.), place where you want. In edit mode, parent the root of that chain/bone group to the root in the armature (or to whatever other bone you want the new bones attached to), then match to rig. Go through all the same export steps for unreal, and when you import into UE, your rig will be fully compatible with the ue skeleton, but still have the added bones attached. Note, if you import directly onto the ue mannequin, those bones will be on the ue mannequin now, which could possible cause issues later down the road

@@ryanz2814 Thank you so much for the details instructions, it will help me out a lot !!!

@@user-not-found. Anytime!

Hey thanks Zick I'm always glad to help when I can

Hope it helps!!

Thanks a bunch man. I was uploading the ID Mask tutorial and noticed some timelapses were marked as unlisted. Thought I'd share them.

Thanks Vizzi! Yeah in the past, I had just used the ID maps to mask out individual high poly meshes that had equivalent low poly geometry, and it just felt like an unnecessary step, as I could fill mask layers by mesh piece or by uv island instead. Driving home from work last week I was thinking about it had an epiphany. When I got home and tried it they way I showed in the video, and it worked so well, I had to share hah.

Glad to help!

Hey man glad to have helped!

The image you bake always comes out blank?

@@ryanz2814 yea but I think I know why (sort of). First of all I haven't been following your tutorial from the beginning. Instead I am trying to do something slightly different. I was trying to find a tutorial for baking a texture onto a plane. Essentially I have a texture atlas of leaves/branches I've put together..then in blender I cut them out individually and make larger branches with them. From there I try to print the object onto a plane. The issue I think has to do with trying to print the diffuse while it contains an alpha channel. I tried messing with the shader settings and when I turned the emissive to 0 I was able to bake the texture...HOWEVER where there is opacity it does not properly transfer the color and you can see the outline of the meshes

Glad you like it!

I've noticed that's just Unreal in a nutshell. Nothing works as advertised, and their documentation is laughable at best.

Hey thanks man! I record these for guys on discord or in our studio, and just started sharing on CZcams. I've been getting the bug to do something else. Anything you want to learn?

Absolutely

Sorry I just saw this!!! I use uefy to pose my rig for unreal if I need it. As for the ue rig, it is just the built in ue4 mannequin (sk_mannequin_skeleton in ue5).

I set the grid system in 3ds max to unreal grid settings. its just cm instead of inches. And scaled it by eye based on the building an average car size block as reference. its not perfect. but I was able to round it off to a certain percentage that it connects an snaps together in unreal. I think the real size scalling in games looks smaller, or maybe we are so used to seeing worlds more expanded. For example in GTA building doors are nearly 3 meters tall and 1.5 meters wide.

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Are you pulling into a project that has the ue skeleton in it?

@@ryanz2814 actually I have created a rig in blender and want to check the working in ue 4 .....so I am importing the blender fbx file into new ue project

@@himanshupalsingh1366 yeah so there is no skeleton in the project, just import your model without choosing the rig and it will crate its own. Later, if you add animations, you can either retarget or just assigne the skeleton.

Just so I don't have to double up, look at the comment from Sam Kostos, I answer this at length in that thread, so go there for the long answer. Short answer? no, I can't get it to work and I feel like I'm missing something silly.

Ok if anyone encounter this you have to choose the UE5 skeleton preset to get rif of this error

Often this can be from a scale issue, or there a multiple meshes, or bones way outside a mesh. generally, the scale fix option in the skinning usually fixes this. Otherwise, what's the topology look like? is it clean and even or is it say, a decimated sculpt?

@@aabb6116 I choose the UE5 preset and i still get this error. Did you have to rename any bones?

@@thesomantics normally no, just make sure that the number of spine bones (5 if i remeber correctly) is correct and you should be good to go

I still get this error even though I changed the number of spine bones to 5. I have no idea what the problem is, or what bones it thinks it's missing. I also have no idea where the "UE5 preset" is he's referring to.

I can't remember exactly where it is but if you dog around there is a switch for ik/fk

@@ryanz2814 Thank you very much ( i already find it by my self ) Is in ,, tool ,, ( right side of the window , after you push N key if you r in skinning mod . Like you see ... I am ready to teach , teachers ..... Hi,hi,hi,hi

@@UNKNOWN-kb4hh Thanks for sharing! I wasn't at my computer when I replied and couldn't remember exactly where it was. I appreciate you helping the rigging community!

This tutorial is for ue4. So I've tried with ue5 (you need 6 spine bones and two neck bones, there is a preset for it), I haven't been able to get this to work. I reached out to the creator and he told me it was a pose issue, so I pulled out the ue5 manny in the exact pose, rigged, reimported, and still get weird deformations. I will keep playing with it and when I figure it out I'll reply, might even make a follow up video

@@ryanz2814 You're amazing.

@@samkostos4520 I still haven't gotten this to work right. I can tweak the poses and such in engine and make things look right, but having to do that for every animation isn't really a viable long term solution. I've tried placing and rotating bones a million different ways, messed with scale, removed certain bone groups from the mesh, with twist, without twist, extra twist bones, all the different control bones turned on and off, pretty much everything, and I feel like i'm missing something stupid simple. I got on their Discord, and for the most part, pretty useless, so I'm still at a loss. If you have figured this out and want to make me look like an idiot I am 100% prepared for the knowledge lol.

I have the same issue. My characters shoulders are scrunched in, the middle of his torso bulges out, and even his eyebrows (wtf?) are disconnected from his face and spin around as he runs.

I've got the same issue with my characters mid section. Squished, looks like she's pregnant haha. Any fix yet?

Likely a version issue. This happens to me when I am using a version of ARP that doesn't match my blender version.

@@ryanz2814 what version u used for blender and tool, i am not able to follow in video after pressing go

@@ashwinj9879 I am currently using Blender 3.1.2 and ARP 3.65.24. I just used last night and worked flawlessly.