Custom clothes for UE Metahuman / UE4-5 / Blender 3+ /MarvelousDesigner 11

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For the past couple of days, I have struggled to find a suitable workflow for adding custom clothes to my Metahuman characters. It frustrates me to sit through hour-long videos that could have been easily condensed down to 10 minutes.
Keep in mind, this is just a step-by-step clickthrough and not a tutorial about "How to create clothes in Marvelous Designer" or "How to correctly Weightpaint in Blender".
This workflow is suitable for UE4 and UE5, Blender 3.0/3.1/3.+ and MarelousDesigner 10 and 11
I hope that I was able to save you some time!
Timestamps:
Intro: 00:00
ExportMetahuman: 00:50
Import to Blender: 01:38
Marvelous Designer: 02:40
Blender Weightpaint: 4:20
Export to Unreal: 7:10
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#UnrealEngine #UnrealEngine5 #ue5 # ue4 #metahuman #blender #blender3.1 # blender3 # marvelousdesigner #custom #clothing #turoeial # short

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@gab3d233 2 жыл бұрын

This is an amazingly concise and the most digestible 'clickthrough' as you say to really see the bigger picture of this entire workflow / pipeline. Thank you again for making this video! I will definitely use this workflow - Liked and subscribed

@ondrejgavenda4417 Жыл бұрын

This was so helpful! I am a beginner and this tutorial is truly one of the kind. It was honestly so refreshing to find a tutorial that is straight to the point and even beginner like me can follow it with ease. Great work!

@katek1366 Жыл бұрын

if you have MERGE BONE ERROR, then simply reimport metahuman bosy to blender with import settings: check "manual orientation", select 'Forward Y' and 'Z Up', uncheck 'automatic bone orientation'. Make sure that clothes export orientaion is the same as metahuman import orientation listed above!

@visualsbybo Жыл бұрын

FINALLY found a Solution to the error everyone has been getting. For "FAILED TO MERGE BONES" The problem is that when Importing the body mesh, I had imported it with "Automatic Bone Orientation" enabled. That was a mistake because Unreal can't read the bones once blender changes them. Also, when exporting the clothes, make sure to Enable "Armature and Mesh " just as he does in the video. THANK ME LATER !!!

@kristajohnson9173 Жыл бұрын

please thumbs up this so people see it and make sure to do it before getting too far!

@visualsbybo Жыл бұрын

@@kristajohnson9173 so cool to know what I actually helped someone 😄

@cgioverloaded2589 Жыл бұрын

Subscribing you out of mere respect !!!

@zurasaur Жыл бұрын

ur a god in these streets bro!!!! thanks

@eunachaanakya Жыл бұрын

i have do this but still same

@ravnOne65 Жыл бұрын

" Hope it helps" yes indeed it did, have been trying for a long time to do this. Thank you so much Nils

@thomasblackfire2119 Жыл бұрын

Holy crap out of all tutorials this one freakin helped me so good. I've been running through tutorials ALL FREAKIN WEEK, I'm getting massive clipping issues but I'm using Daz to Unreal Engine 5 so maybe that's it. Gen8 based skeleton. Not a lot of helpful tutorials on that, I wish there were. But WOW thank you so much bro. I subbed.

@EnterMyDreams 19 күн бұрын

what a phenomenal in depth tutorial, thank you so much!!

@NilsGallist 2 жыл бұрын

Let me know if you want a more detailed step-by-step tutorial!

@olastalmach4278 2 жыл бұрын

Yes please

@MrHamsterism 2 жыл бұрын

A weight painting tutorial would be great!

@NilsGallist 2 жыл бұрын

@@MrHamsterism Oh man, I am FAAAAR from perfekt when it comes to weight painting. I believe there are more qualified artists out there to teach weightpainting.

@kennetherhabor5543 2 жыл бұрын

Detailed step-by-step tutorial please.

@illie6051 Жыл бұрын

Awesome tutorial, I subscribed. If you have a workflow to create custom hair too it would be great!

@beyondcinema Жыл бұрын

Love the way you explain it, subbed as well! Will be trying this out soon.

@TLabsLLC-AI-Development Жыл бұрын

Thank you for introducing me to Marvelous Designer.

@Fafmagic Жыл бұрын

Meta-moses! This is excellent, thanks for making the video!

@conbuch9758 2 жыл бұрын

Instant subscribe. Soo helpful man. Can't thank you enough.

@Violin_Sherry 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for making the video! It's very helpful!

@user-do4gg8gb1c Ай бұрын

Amazing tutorial! Thanks a lot

@adamordway1597 Жыл бұрын

You are a saint! Thank you for this video!

@jandosk1586 Жыл бұрын

This is beautiful and finally something helpful too! I would really appreciate it if you would consider doing a tutorial on how to prepare such a mesh for gaming. I saw many triple A studios actually are able to rig these clothes and then siimulate them on their character so they move in real-time. I know UE5 also does that and is capable of it without having too big performance issues so any tutorial on that would be wild!

@LupusMechanicus Жыл бұрын

right click, generate cloth asset, right click apply cloth asset.

@WolfGuy1 Жыл бұрын

@@LupusMechanicus do you consider that not remeshing the cloth before importing to ue5 like on this video it's something suggested? I mean , they're already has uv's.

@sotasounduk 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you - Very helpful!

@luminegamedev6875 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm looking for this

@krushnachaudhari2174 2 жыл бұрын

awesome 👍👍😎 nils thanks

@ARMORHOUS3weplay 2 жыл бұрын

Incredible and ty! Well deserved sub!!

@chadyonfire7878 2 жыл бұрын

that was quick and awesome

@marioperez1720 2 жыл бұрын

It is a very good tutorial, it would be great if you could show a little more about what the animated suit looks like, greetings

@neXib Жыл бұрын

Just what I needed, no extra bullshit, thanks! Subbed.

@Democracyphobia Жыл бұрын

thank you very much for this

@brianchristopher5976 2 жыл бұрын

Great Tut!

@viz972 Жыл бұрын

Thanks man, u are a life saver!

@bigdaddystrokes Жыл бұрын

Thanks for making that for us :)

@officepassenger Жыл бұрын

I Love You Tutorials! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111

@otherworldsAI 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks nil!

$@fracturedreality88$

@fracturedreality88 2 жыл бұрын

thanks this saved me!

@paulschengber9352 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@DLVRYDRYVR 2 жыл бұрын

Excellente!

@AmranSidek 2 жыл бұрын

wow..just wow..TQ

@devromeo4158 2 жыл бұрын

great lesson

@terrablader 2 жыл бұрын

wo so clean explanation,

@Somordorp 3 ай бұрын

thank you!!

@FPChris 3 ай бұрын

Good tutorial.

@ninomancuso7021 8 ай бұрын

Very nice tutorial! How woud you go about creating a cape? It seems like it would require a different method for attaching

@sarashatnawi8756 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this useful tutorial Can you make another awesome tutorial to show how we can add animation to this character with clothes animation

@ChuckDebWood 10 ай бұрын

Nice! And 3D Jesus at that! 😀

@alan112223 Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@pandaslovecake2020 2 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial, any Idea on making Hoodies and stuff? Can't parent stuff to the head bones this way

@supremebeme Жыл бұрын

amazing how this workflow is almost entirely free

@AdamButler664 11 ай бұрын

almost?

@joshuagatlin3931 Жыл бұрын

Great tutorial but I'm having an issue now where I import back into UE5 and now it separates the mesh textures from the mesh into 6 texture files

@trending895 6 ай бұрын

thank you

@Instant_Nerf Жыл бұрын

Thank you man. They want $600 for a couple of cloths on the unreal market. Unbelievable!

@kristajohnson9173 Жыл бұрын

I mean the parts hes not showing you is what the simple automated transfer weights looks like when animating. I can guess how it looks, and its.. not great. There is a hundred million bones that you need to know how to do fine weight paint properly to make it look nice, its so much time and effort. To say nothing of what it would take to get swishy cloth effects. When you think about how many man hours those $600 outfits took? Not that unreasonable.

@jonlicht1826 Жыл бұрын

Hey if I wanted to do this same workflow but use the metahuman with a T pose is that easy to accomplish?

@jomaxz89 5 ай бұрын

This process made me want to rip my hair out but I found a tool METATAILOR that does this in about 60 seconds. Life saver!

@NilsGallist 5 ай бұрын

Had some up´s and downs with METATAILOR, but definitly a cool software, yes.

@jessicabovee4441 8 ай бұрын

Love this!! Only thing im having trouble with, when I get it into UE5 the colors and texts from the shirt are gone. its just white? Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

@TheOneAndOnlyThumper 9 ай бұрын

This has got to be the most convoluted process ever. Everything about clothing on characters seems to be over-the-top complicated when it doesn't have to be. I can't wait for Epic to buy out marvelous designer and integrate the cloth sim directly in Unreal. Or for someone to create a cross-platform plug-in that allows us to sidestep all the joining, converting, importing, and exporting bs.

@mikkelherbst5185 Жыл бұрын

Great tutotial, thank you! I only have 1 problem, my clothes seems fine and fitting perfect in viewport, but ingame the clothes are a little outside from the character, should I edit the animations one by one or what do you think is the problem?

@aritrachoudhury8409 8 ай бұрын

I am facing this same problem. Did you find a fix for this? @mikkelherbst5185

@jxhao8430 2 жыл бұрын

wow!

@EmvyBeats Жыл бұрын

What do i need to do if i used a character that isn't Metahuman and doesn't have a body / legs option on the BP? If i add the clothes to Skeletal mesh it gets rid of the characters skin mesh, and looks like a ghost wearing clothes when i press play and run around..

@ayaz1979 Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@pongthronjapan7078 2 жыл бұрын

greatest tutorial clothing metahuman, wait to see full tutorial

@BernhardRieder1 Жыл бұрын

Basically, every single piece of cloth, you still need to use the rig and do the skinning before importing to UE5? Would it not work, if you just import the mesh, and while importing you assign the Metahuman Base Skeleton?

@lanvinpierre Жыл бұрын

any chance you know how to export the hair and textures of the meta as well?

@borisstengele5389 Жыл бұрын

THX!!!

@robertcrystals Жыл бұрын

do you turn off the Level of Detail & Collisions for the body export as well as the face?

@asciikat2571 2 жыл бұрын

! yes!

@ruyabaraz Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this tutorial. Just one question. If I have say 3 or 4 different garments, is it better to repeat the same process for each or combine them and import them as one?

@CryptoManSam20 Жыл бұрын

Wondering if you found anything out. I am in the middle of trying it as one FBX right now. I had to do the transfer weight steps in blender separately, doing the shift and click upward to root 3 times from top to bottom. I had two shoes and a core piece of clothing.

@CryptoManSam20 Жыл бұрын

I will be reworking it in the future. As separate fbxs I'd imagine that there will be less clipping between the character and the shoes. Everything tracks decently, but I do get feet clipping through the shoes on occasion.

@naruto102030100 Жыл бұрын

Hey, so, I used your tutorial but for some reason my skeletal mesh imported without any bones even tho I assigned it the correct skeleton. I tried with the third-person basic mannequin too and that imported with bones but doesn't move even though it has a anim graph assigned to it. Please let me know what might be causing this to your knowledge

@ErblinAhmeti Жыл бұрын

did you find the solution yet?

@jionnihamilton Жыл бұрын

Curious, when I try to import my model into marv it says the model needs to be in T pose? How do I fix this?

@DeclanLangenfeld-zu5hc 7 ай бұрын

Another reason you could be having the merge bone problem: Blender renamed your "root" bone. If its not "root" and instead "root.08" or whatever (maybe you made 8 copies of the scene like I did), then unreal will not recognize the metahuman rig when you try to bring it back from Blender into UE. Rename it to just Root.

@user-mp1sp7uq7u 2 жыл бұрын

完美

@LuciousKage Жыл бұрын

I am trying to make metahuman as my character in unreal, but file is soo large, and the groom looks terrible, is there a way to put it into blender and reexport smaller file ?

@hotbergina Жыл бұрын

hello how to add clothes but moving with any animation the meta human will have ?

@AlexisRivera3D 11 ай бұрын

A noob question but how do you save the Tshirt presets?

@eunachaanakya Жыл бұрын

hey how to export metahuman body as preview like in the video without LOD? or exporting body same like export face? need fast respon please

@Tenchinu Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! got everything working flawlessly UNTIL I added the animation class to the clothes. Then, they changed location of the clothes under my character's feet :( any idea why that could be?

@rafaortiz585 Жыл бұрын

I have the same problem .- . i try to find something about this but i dont see nothing D: its works on UE4 but in 5 my cloth melting down to the feets xd like this i.gyazo.com/9683d6109bc9ec2a68e7ceaa81abb603.png

@rafaortiz585 Жыл бұрын

Ok, i try with another blender version and its works :D cloth doesnt melt anymore :D :D :D i.gyazo.com/7bb4d6dd83ef16b6d378ee93bdab1668.png

@rafaortiz585 Жыл бұрын

Nah, was LODs its works on -1,2 and 3 but if you change to LODs 4 cloth just melt down :

@cutekittiekittie Жыл бұрын

I am new to this and have to additionally google tons of info on every single step. What is Alt+P in Blender on a mac tho? Option+P doesn't work, neither does command nor control+p work

@shbhideh6079 2 жыл бұрын

The training was excellent, thank you. I could add costume to the character, the costume sits on the tension, but when I create a animte character, the costume separates from the metahuman, what do I do ??

@NilsGallist 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, the info you provided are less than needed for giving a qualified response. The Unreal Forums are a great resource to find out and network with other artists who might have solved that problem. You can find me in these Forums under "MondRubberduck". Shoot me a message with screenshots, then I might be able to assist.

@NilsGallist 2 жыл бұрын

After thinking about it... Are you sure, that your Clothes AND Metahuman use the same Animation Asset / Animation Blueprint?

@shbhideh6079 2 жыл бұрын

@@NilsGallist I will try again, maybe I made a mistake somewhere .. if I could not .. I will send you a screenshot in the Unreal forum .. Thank you

@kingsleyadu9289 Жыл бұрын

Nice video, but when I add animation to the Metahuman the cloth will be at one place, help solve it

@hgahsiea 3 ай бұрын

I noticed when I did this the neck bones don't seem to have weights.

@SoumikProduction Ай бұрын

Can you please make a Update on this video for UE5.4 & MD workflow?

@kayodeoseni2999 Жыл бұрын

Hi there. This workflow is outdated in Unreal Engine 5.1. I’m getting skeletal mesh error, pls can you make an updated tutorial . Help pls

@sunny99179 Жыл бұрын

Did you tested cloth paint (weight) inside unreal?

@gclef101 4 ай бұрын

Hello thanks for the tutorial, I am having trouble with the animation part of the metahuman. I imported the clothing and applied it to the skeleton. When I start to animate the metahuman the clothing does not move with animation. Is there any documentation or something I need to look into? Thanks!!!

@user-nc7iv1on6d 4 ай бұрын

Did you work it out?

@gclef101 3 ай бұрын

@@user-nc7iv1on6d sorry for the late reply I have not found a solution yet, if you find one please let me know!!!

@user-nc7iv1on6d 3 ай бұрын

@@gclef101 Because I needed real-time animation, I brushed out some parts through the official Chao Cloth cloth simulation. However, I'm going to test the UE5.4 version today, which can be transferred directly from md to ue, and then it seems that the cloth aspect has been officially solved

@gclef101 3 ай бұрын

@@user-nc7iv1on6d Wow that is cool I will try this out for my future projects in 5.4, if there is a way to do this in 5.3 I would love to know!!!

@horizon5431 2 жыл бұрын

Importing the clothing always brings up the error message "FAILED TO MERGE BONES" and asks to regenerate the skeleton which messes everything up. I have the exact same export settings and I feel like I've tried everything at this point.

@horizon5431 2 жыл бұрын

*IF ANYONE ELSE HAS THIS PROBLEM* It is because Unreal thinks that the top node of the skeleton that you imported (which is probably a group with the same name as the skeletal mesh) is a entirely new bone, which messes up the hierarchy. When exporting your clothes from the 3d software, make sure to take everything out of the group first so that you're only exporting the skeleton and clothes.

@Giga3D811 Жыл бұрын

make sure ypure exporting ALL the bones in the hierarchy bro.

@EmpticStudios 11 ай бұрын

I’m still confused

@gamerdweebentertainment1616 Жыл бұрын

Hmmm... looking something more dynamic :/ so if I wanted same clothes for different body types, I would need to redo clothing mesh or wait, make base bones adjustable so the clothes also would adjust to it, right? Brain why you can't take things step by step and not go for PRO mode right away... :/

@LeFantasticPlanet 2 жыл бұрын

I had this down last year but something changed with Blender 3, now my rigs all come in with wrong joint orientations even though I follow the steps, How can I get these rigs not to flip?

@NilsGallist 2 жыл бұрын

I don't quite know what you mean by "rigs not to flip". I am using 3.1 as well and it works as expected. Make sure to use the standard export fbx settings and do not change the joint orientation in the settings.

@LeFantasticPlanet 2 жыл бұрын

@@NilsGallist The bones are coming in oriented wrong, so the rig is flipping each bone and the whole mesh goes horizontal, in this case, actually, the head is flipping forward 90 degrees on the X. I set my rig to export exactly as the settings show. The funny thing is this worked before 3, I got clothes on the MH last summer in 2.9. Try try again. I do use Better FBX as an addon Thanks for checking in, let me know if you have any insights

@user-yd1di3zo7j Жыл бұрын

The moment I press the simulation, the clothes get smaller and stick to my body. How can I solve this problem?

@tadavis 2 жыл бұрын

Is your blender file set to cm? Great video btw

@NilsGallist 2 жыл бұрын

Yes. I didn´t change the "right out of the gate" settings from blender. So as long as you didn´t change it when launching blender, you should be fine.

@ozss3539 2 ай бұрын

Hello, There are problems on the UE side of my character and I wanted to weight paint in blender, but I can't, I can't paint at all. Why could it be? I would be very happy if you could help me.

@ThamanVlogs 4 ай бұрын

Is it just me or is only the torso showing up in blender after the import? How do I fix this?

@seanmccabe4653 5 ай бұрын

I've got a problem where the clothing mesh comes in enormous in blender, compared to the body mesh.

@halo1of1the1sun 2 жыл бұрын

Did not work for me. When I imported into unreal 4.27 it says that the skeleton needs to regenerate, which will cause all sorts of issues. I made sure to have the same export settings as you. Didnt change a thing. Used the same skeleton that i exported from unreal and all adn selected it on import. Keeps giving me that message to regenerate. I did this for the sweater, tried to give it a shirt Any ideas

@horizon5431 2 жыл бұрын

@Joshua Lowes I also tried this. Still having the same issue as him.

@MasterPiffy 2 жыл бұрын

When in blender tithe first thing you have to do after importing the rigged mesh and your new clothing is add the armature to the clothing, then you shift click and drag the clothing onto the body rig root, then delete all lods body rig leaving a single LOD, preferably the original LOD 0, then you control clock the LOD rigged mesh, then control click the clothing, change to weight painting, transfer weights, by name, you cannot skip this part at all, that's where most people f-up. Then you go back to object mode, delete the body mesh so theres only the clothing and rig left, and export the armature and rig

@Luigi-rq4xg Жыл бұрын

why the clothes disappeared when zooming in?

@hjk1945 5 ай бұрын

does it move. is the clothes simulation or weight painted to the character's rig?

@NilsGallist 5 ай бұрын

It is weightpainted to the character. This meany, it will take the same animation file as the avatar skeleton.

@davjan-am Жыл бұрын

Hi Nils. So, did you buy it?

@SLAPMYGORILLA Жыл бұрын

I've managed to get this to work, but for the life of me i cannot get it to work consistently. I cannot figure out why but i have to redo the blender weight painting part of the tutorial about 6 times before i can successfully get it into unreal. I'll face the issues of the armature not binding to the clothing and bone heiracrchy changes on the clothing. unreal has no debug info on what the actual fck is causing the fault..

@TheFunDimension 2 жыл бұрын

Can you please tell us how to import a character to blender with all the textures and shit. I can’t figure out how to export eyes, eyebrows, hair, eye lashes. I have been stuck for several weeks. I am so frustrated

@NilsGallist 2 жыл бұрын

Heyo, Exporting the materials from Unreal Engine to Blender is not possible without plugins and extensions. These are just 2 completely separate things. Same as doing a paint job on a car. In the end, you just apply a new color to an object, but you cant just use a brush and color from the warehouse and expect the same results as done in a professional workshop. Just two different worlds. To get the materials, you have to export the textures and build your materials in Blender from anew. Content-> Metahumans-> Common-> "Filter Textures" -> Look for the appropriate one and -> right click: Asset Actions: Export

@TheFunDimension 2 жыл бұрын

@@NilsGallist thank you I understand

@hotbergina Жыл бұрын

hello, can we modify the metahuman with zbrush and re import it ?

@NilsGallist Жыл бұрын

Yeah, as long as you you dont add geometry. Then you have to think about weights again. Typically I´d recomend solving issues with textures first... but I understand that´s not always possible.