My Blender To Unreal Engine Character Workflow

My Blender To Unreal Engine Character Workflow | Tutorial

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Many of you asked me to make a video about my Blender to Unreal Engine 4 workflow. You ask, I make! Here it is!
In this video I explain how I set up my characters with materials in Blender. I take you through the entire export process and bring it all into Unreal Engine.
We also explore the best way to get the right scale in Blender and how to set up Animation Retargeting in Unreal Engine.
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I had to watch 10 videos on each problem and piece together the information from each to make everything work.. There are no helpful videos lol! I'm looking around for some good ones that will clarify things! Stay patient 🙏🙏🙏
If you have any questions, please drop a comment and I will help you :)
Hope you enjoy! Cheers!
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@jarrodalvarado9315 4 жыл бұрын

If anyone is still having problems with the physics not working make sure before you export to “apply transformations” this is done by pressing “ctrl A” :)

@PlanetComputer 3 жыл бұрын

@benedekudvardi1602 3 жыл бұрын

tysm

@zaidabuzahra0 3 жыл бұрын

that doesnt fix everything no, can somebody help!

@csicee 2 жыл бұрын

@@zaidabuzahra0 Did u find fix

@ASTERisk44946 Жыл бұрын

THANKYOU IM LOOKING INTO NEW TECHNIQUES AND BEFORE I DOWNLOADED IT I NOTED THAT

@unchayndspersonalaccount7690 3 жыл бұрын

0:58 - Basics / Scale setup 1:56 - Materials 3:34 - Rig 5:38 - Exporting 10:35 - Animation 16:02 - Retargeting Animations

@autumnleaves7907 3 жыл бұрын

king

@captainofnumenor8221 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the timestamps! 🙏

@michaelrutter2343 4 жыл бұрын

following someone who started from scratch is helpful when you give the tips that normal tutorials would skip over because its considered normal industry knowledge

@LuanaSouza-fw1iz 3 жыл бұрын

That is so true. I am kinda shocked that this video is so good! I mean.... U AMAZinG

@GAMEBR0VIP2462 3 жыл бұрын

So true .

@TAREEBITHETERRIBLE 2 жыл бұрын

yeah I hate it when they just skip over stuff! so annoying

@ShouriSeifuku Жыл бұрын

Hi from the future! In the future we're now on Unreal Engine 5.1 - If you're wondering how the scale is still getting jacked up with your model, and the capsules aren't lining up or you're getting 2/3 capsules, than fear not! Under the physics asset window where you see the capsules, you will need to go under Tools on the right hand side and under the "Body Creation" drop down go to: "Min Bone Size". My model's bones were too small, so adjusting this down to 0.07 allowed the engine to properly detect my tiny bones and compensate appropriately. Now every bone has a capsule.

@dudechill6057 Жыл бұрын

you are a life saver

@mch43856 Жыл бұрын

Unreal Engine 5 supports GLTF import, you can get correct scale now with a simple export using that format without changing anything in blender! Just export as GLTF!

@Kcuds729 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much

@mch43856 Жыл бұрын

Correction to this, GLTF ain't that good with importing face shading etc in Unreal

@alzearafat Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@Holtingthewalkers 4 жыл бұрын

Explaining nuances "like the blender m vs cm issue" in videos like this is SO helpful!! Great Vid!

@jasonmcdade8837 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this! It’s a big relief having this walk-through. I greatly appreciate the time you’ve spent and the time you’ve saved me. All the best!

@Dilligff 4 жыл бұрын

I love that you showed the actual mistakes and how to fix them. Too often people assume that just rambling off all the "right" things to do in checklist format is the best way to instruct. But more often than not I'm scrubbing through content trying to find where I 'messed' up in the list with no clue what I missed or where I went wrong. Then getting frustrated and having to walk away til my head clears. I really wish more tutorials took into account common mistakes (or even uncommon) during the instruction.

@kevinlaras_album 4 жыл бұрын

You deserve so much more audience. You are helping me so much on my projects, thank you a lot!

@truthhc 4 жыл бұрын

thank you so much man, i’ve been trying so many methods and plugins and this video solved everything

@MichaelKarius 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, this is super helpful and fun to watch. Great channel!Thank you for sharing your hard earned knowledge!

@eego_beego 4 жыл бұрын

This is soooo helpful, I’ve been looking for a video like this for months. Thank you!

@madcio 3 жыл бұрын

This is one of the best tutorials on that topic I've seen. Pretty detailed and with demonstration what goes wrong with invalid setup.

@Rappe96 4 жыл бұрын

This channel just keeps poppin' off! Keep that quality content coming :)).

@TheCreator1337 4 жыл бұрын

Words can't describe how helpful this is! I struggled with importing multiple animations correctly and your tips saved me a lot of time! Thank you good sir :D

@CosmicComputer 4 жыл бұрын

Your channel has kicked me into gear to get back to work on my game! Thanks man, love seeing your progress!

@Pontypants 4 жыл бұрын

That's awesome! So great that you are back in bizz!!

@Palexite 3 жыл бұрын

I was so puzzled with character setup in unreal engine 4, this broke things down and made things so much more understandable, thank you for this tutorial. This is extremely helpful! 😊

@spring3281 4 жыл бұрын

Dude the quality of your videos & thumbneils are way ahead of your channel I seriously thought you got a lot of subscribers or something, keep up the great content & you'll deflintly get there 👍😀

@Nernage 3 жыл бұрын

Coming back to this for help, and man this is still very helpful. Thank you very much Ponty.

@Ren_Taylor Ай бұрын

I’ve referenced these videos so many times and only just learned you’re the one behind A Difficult Game About Climbing! Congratulations man!! 🥳 Thank you for giving us all so much!

@Dikkedimi 4 жыл бұрын

nice video, very well structured, very comfortable pace. Thanks for making this helpful video!

@tetragony 4 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial. I'm a blender user for a long time and I'm learning unreal for some month. I started right now with characters and animations in unreal. Your tips will save me a lot of time. Thanks for sharing your workflow.

@timsonss 3 жыл бұрын

I dont know how I found this, I searched every single video for my problem. I couldnt export from Blender to Unreal... And I found this video! You are the God!!! I cant explain how happy I am right now. I spent hours trying to fix it and all I had to do is just to watch this video!

@rhombus8283 2 жыл бұрын

i loveeeee you man, i struggled so hard with this root thing and you just came out of no where and help me sooooo much, thank you man, for real, thank youuuuuuuu

@Joshua_Pratt 3 жыл бұрын

Killllled it! Such a good tutorial with a lot of small hints that save a HUGE amount of time 👏🏼

@EDBass 4 жыл бұрын

BRILLIANT! Who doesn't love lessons that lessen "arrgh-time"? Thanks for going through the suffering so we don't have to!

@rotcivsi 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! Like a lot! by showing the little steps helps out so many people, and with good cuts as well. Again thank you! :D

@tajaloe5920 3 жыл бұрын

This is genuinely the most useful and straightforward video I have ever watched you have saved my ass

@thetentaclemonsters 8 ай бұрын

This is the video I've been looking for a loooooong time. Neat and right to the point. Thanks!

@ElGermanyHitsNukes39 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro! I needed a good tutorial to make a video game! You are a lot of help!

@FlorianEagox 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I've seen many tutorials on how to do some of these things individually, but this is a very good, comprehensive overview.

@Dhieen Жыл бұрын

Woooow best tutorial ever, super short and perfect for what i needed, explains really well I will fix alot of problems I had when importing and even for retargeting, its super fast! Before i was doing that all manually

@pygmalion8952 2 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THIS IS THE ONLY PROCESS THAT I HAD NO ISSUE WITH IMPLEMENTING. U LITERALLY COVERED EVERYTHING. SUBBED

@chimeron260 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this. Thought I was gonna have to buy a bunch of other stuff to use blender with UE4, gonna have to rewatch this step by step again but this is the best video I've seen so far!

@superkalio 6 ай бұрын

Thank you bro!!! you helped me a lot in creating my own character's rig workflow! Stay blessed!🔥🔥🔥

@RattleSnake2028 6 ай бұрын

Best tuto ever and still perfect for UE 5.3 ! Thank you so much

@darkerthendeception7211 2 жыл бұрын

Honestly love you man. I was so hung up on so many things while trying to export to unreal that I nearly gave up. You are the gigachad of blender and unreal lol.

@wmka 2 жыл бұрын

Searched for "character blender to unreal workflow". This is first in the list. Thank you and have a good one.

@garethanderson6980 2 жыл бұрын

THIS 8 MINUTES OF MY LIFE WAS THE BEST THING I HAVE SEEN ALL DAY ON HOW TO GET MY MESH TO UNREAL ENGINE!

@badanos 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome tutorial and a huge time saver. Thank you so much for spending the time making this!

@PinkPeachBell 11 ай бұрын

Ponty, I don't usually comment on videos but I love you. I'm currently working on my first game and this was the first time I ever animated something myself. The whole day I've been sat here trying to figure out settings and nothing worked. Now, renaming the Armature to root solved everything. Thank you!!!!

@trentriley3645 4 жыл бұрын

absolutely tops, this answered so many questions and that star thing I KNOW would have got me, thank you for saving me alot of stress.

@nelskowronek331 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, first time here, but I'm sure I'm gonna stick a while. I love your charisma and the way you explain stuff! Keep up the great work:)

@eduardoparente3756 2 жыл бұрын

Man, i'm so greatful for this video! I've ben passed many and many hours trying to import from blender to unreal! The solve was only to change the name "armature" to "root"! Thats a really good Tip! God Bless you! Thank you!

@Kholaslittlespot1 4 жыл бұрын

Wow my friend you have saved me a lot of time. I like your style. Subbed!

@MrShizzr 4 жыл бұрын

Yooo, these are a lot of super helpful tipps! Thanks so much for the video! 👍

@jessemalisa6804 8 ай бұрын

Top tier tutorial! I usually watch tutorials on 1.5x speed and skip ahead but not on yours as it is jam packed with info! You're funny too! Rock on!

@I-VisiBomb-I Жыл бұрын

this video is gold. sure it misses some stuff, for example you need to have very specific conditions to be met with your characters rig in order to make the export work, but i tackled that problem with a different video, and after that, your tutorial went butter smooth. thank you!

@457Deniz457 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome Video :) Bcs of you I started even as Unity Fan Boy a new Unreal-Engine Playlist ☺️

@Manim8 3 жыл бұрын

21:33 "and the good thing about this is, ummnn... Anyways..." lol That made me laugh!

@GBFallenDreamers 3 жыл бұрын

Same, and apparently wasn't even supposed to be that way, but I'm glad it made it in lol, had the perfect amount of comedic pause.

@chanolongo 6 ай бұрын

Just….thanks! The tutorial is perfect and covers all the main issues regarding the workflow blender-UE

@mclow100 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro! This is exactly what I've been trying to figure out for the past 3 days!

@Laerei 2 жыл бұрын

It's so well explained that it's really a simple! Thanks for the video!

@unallocated3029 4 жыл бұрын

Great walkthroug probably saved me a week of work. Wish tutorials like these existed when I started out in unreal. You're doing a great job! Looking forward to future videos :)

@Pontypants 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you found it useful ^^

@LazyDev27 Жыл бұрын

Like your style bro, keep it up! Solid tutorial, I've been a blenderer for a while and want to try my hand at UE5, I figured knowing how to create your own assets is a huge thing with that.

@joshf6386 3 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU for not making me watch you model something in blender for the first 15 minutes of this video. Straight to the point, great.

@herretixx1759 4 жыл бұрын

Man, this tutorial was spot on, very well done. What version of blender are you using? I have been using blender and unreal for about a month but have mainly been focusing on blender due to not having a great setup for hardware. Point being, I really appreciate watching other people’s workflow and this was perfect. Thank you! Got yourself a sub here, keep it up. 🤙🏼

@Pontypants 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! :D I am glad you enjoyed the video :) I am using Blender 2.82.7 -> I am a bit behind, I need to update to the latest

@bookittysdad 4 жыл бұрын

You sir have a new Sub here! Awesome tutorials!!!! Keep them coming! these Tuts are very informative, easy to follow, and have a very high production value. You sir should make tutorials like this and your Farty Bird tut your main focus now. You could easily be the next Big Tutorial Channel for Unreal and Blender. (I rang the Bell icon too!)

@discountgamervids 2 жыл бұрын

This is helping me weed through the intel i've gotten from other devs. THANKS BRAH!

@sqwert654 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. your explanations have fixed all the the problems I was having with my Control Rig in UE4 yesterday Love you long time

@shamzfk 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! That is valuable! One piece of advice - in Blender you can just hover over an object and press "L" it will select the whole piece under the cursor, no need to select poly and ctrl-L, it speeds up things considerably

@Pontypants 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir! You get an honorable mention in the next video :D Such an awesome tip!! I use it all the time now!

@Matteo10R 2 жыл бұрын

Man wish I saw this video a few days ago, so many hours of headaches great vid!

@silvaright 4 жыл бұрын

This was immensely helpful, thank you so much.

@toapyandfriends 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much just just works...😆'you just got a subscriber from this awesome video!

@cupcake_lover_69 23 күн бұрын

Great video, very helpful, keep up the great work.

@ericmatthews9894 2 жыл бұрын

Finally a tutorial that explains exactly whay I was looking for. Thank You

@TheMagnel777 2 жыл бұрын

This is a gem of a video! Thanks a lot for posting.

@glennbrink1751 3 жыл бұрын

Wow just wow. Thank you for this video!

@keharacek 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, I was having the exact same issues, and you adressed every single one of them in this video, great job!

@Pontypants 4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!! :D

@jonathanparlane1 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, so helpful...A "minefield" sums it up perfectly. I'm not there yet, my character was bigger in the final retargetting attempt (maybe the animation scale was not needed?) but in the process this helped me clean my character animation shape, clothing intersections also cleaned up, those two things were huge. I know I can go back and find the sizing error. So happy. Subbed.

@Weckmuller 4 жыл бұрын

Great content mate! Keep up doing this great work!!

@soirema 2 жыл бұрын

Extremely useful, thank you so much !

@gamedevwithabhi 3 жыл бұрын

Bro this the one thing that worked for me. Earlier whenever I imported my character , only one lod loaded which proved very hectic for texturing it. Now I have imported my character with the textures and lods itself thanks for this man

@Bilal112ify 3 жыл бұрын

Boy I’ve searched 6 month for guy, who can explain everything U’re the one mate And btw Thanks for advice bout bens tutorial Mate that’s the best shit in the internet bout bp Long live mate Peace

@JordiPorrasArt 4 жыл бұрын

FANTASTIC video. Thanks to you I have achieved a correct workflow.

@patrickory1 3 жыл бұрын

Holly smokes this is super useful and nutrient-dense! Thank you!

@COSMICAMISSION 4 ай бұрын

Outstanding tutorial. Thankyou!!

@cursedbishstudio 2 жыл бұрын

wondering how i missed this video.. it is fantastic. wish you still made content like this. the PP quality videos.

@adrienhartman6811 4 жыл бұрын

You literally saved my game. I was ready to give up. Thank you so much.

@RookSoto 4 жыл бұрын

Great video! I subbed up, and I look forward to future content.

@peterlantz7966 3 жыл бұрын

This is a super helpful! I found the animation export settings part extremely helpful since that was tripping me up. After watching and seeing how blender decided to export animation, I personally turned off both "NLA Strips" and "All Actions" so Blender just exports 1 animation: whatever the result looks like when pressing play on timeline. That way I can export out animations into separate files. I sometimes have to reimport specific animations after some polish, so I needed that.

@DJM3D 4 жыл бұрын

Great video, nice work!

@bataraza2 15 күн бұрын

wow brother, thank you so much for this tuto.... it helped me a lot

@smalllixin 4 жыл бұрын

I have to say thank u. Very very useful. Save tons of time

@GranokGab 4 жыл бұрын

Nice, is always so good to have these little advices. I will add a big one that solved a HUGE problem I was having with the Blender -> UE4 workflow: sometimes the animations will have minor jittering going from blender to ue4, this is particularly noticeable on the foot of the characters. To solve this, the SIMPLIFY option on Blender needs to be set up to 0.0, on the UE4 side you can also improve the quality of the animations by changing the compressions, but UE4 compression on animations are known to good, saving memory without changing the final result of the animation. These problems of jittering animations are caused by Blender exporting and compressing animations like a butcher.

@ManAtPlay Жыл бұрын

IT IS SO SO HELPFUL INFORMATION THNX!

@Joshuahendrix 4 жыл бұрын

Straightforward and informative 👌 thanks!

@monishdhayalan2552 4 жыл бұрын

this one's solo useful, I have been always frustrated why the mesh is not like it was in blender. Thanks

@CalixRomeroOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

I subbed! This is so helpful!

@ronioclarenzo6137 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic tutorial! Thanks for your help!

@user-vu3kk2fm2j Жыл бұрын

OMG, THANKS SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS TUTORIAL

@hervus2 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, super useful !!!

@deunank 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Very helpful and straightforward to follow.

@JeremySeiner 4 жыл бұрын

This was great! Thanks for the great video! Learned a lot!

@pelakalion 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! is very helpful. It resolve many problems. I had fear to do the export process due all this xDD. Well earned like. See ya

@JonathanWinbush 4 жыл бұрын

I'm not a Blender user but as a C4D user I can still appreciate this video good stuff 👊🏾

@SneakyKittyGameDev 4 жыл бұрын

tip when exporting animations, export only the armature to prevent the mesh/materials being exported/imported alongside it.

@TheGamingExpert 3 жыл бұрын

Very helpful video, thank you!

@basilegger8277 4 жыл бұрын

OMG! Thanks I was really struggeling with my physics bodies just yesterday. This helps alot.

@Pontypants 4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad it was helpful :)

@megtwin 3 жыл бұрын

Lots of great info, thanks so much!

@GalaxyDeveloper_ 3 жыл бұрын

Sir You Are Really "AWESOME!" 😎😎😎