Import sapling from blender to ue4?

Dante741 · December 7, 2014, 6:37am

I used the sapling add on in blender to make a tree for my game but when I export it as a .fbx all I get when I import it into UE4 is the leaves and no textures or anything. What am I doing wrong?

eXi · December 7, 2014, 8:21am

It would help if you could provide a couple of screenshots from:

The Sapling inside Blender
Your Export Settings in Blender
Your Material Settings in Blender
Your Import Settings in UE4
The Sapling inside UE4
Your Material Settings in UE4 for the Sapling

Dante741 · December 7, 2014, 5:08pm

here is what happens

anonymous_user_923c79df · December 7, 2014, 8:34pm

Before exporting you have to convert it to a mesh → select the entire tree - space - convert to - mesh For the textures: The best way is to import them manually - go into the uv editor and save your texture as a picture - import it - right click onto it - create material - assign it to your tree

Dante741 · December 7, 2014, 8:51pm

Would that allow me yo use the animations still? And thanks for the help I’ll try it and see what happens tonight

anonymous_user_923c79df · December 7, 2014, 9:00pm

Oh, you want to use an animation with that tree ^^ → no, this wont work, but what kind of animation do you want to use with your tree? Before you made the animation, have you combined both parts (this will prevent some problems)? Enable “import animation” in your import settings and check if you can probably see the trunk in one of the anims. Otherwise, would it be possible for you to upload the mesh somewhere so that we can take a look at it?

Dante741 · December 7, 2014, 9:02pm

It has a wind blow animation and no they are not connected as one object

Dante741 · December 8, 2014, 2:45am

still not working on importing. I joined them and tried still same thing

Dante741 · December 9, 2014, 5:32am

Ok got it to work now. I get the tree and the leaves are now on it and I can texture them but the textures don’t come in at all it just solid white.

anonymous_user_923c79df · December 9, 2014, 3:01pm

Nice to hear that it’s working now → what was the solution? The easiest way is to import the textures manually → so export them from blender and import them into the UE4 - add them to the material

Dante741 · December 9, 2014, 4:05pm

Changed in export on blender from binary to the other option and now it works. But I get a UV error of 100% overlap

anonymous_user_923c79df · December 14, 2014, 11:17am

After you rebuild the light? → make sure that you have a proper lightmap: (not the recommended way) → ://

Vasquehaal · December 25, 2015, 6:18pm

You says you fixed the problem… but you don’t says how exactly. Getting the tree is easy once converted to a mesh. How do you succeed in exporting the tree + the armature + the animation…
I succeed to get the skeletal mesh into UE4 but no anim. Could you please tell how you do proceed ?

anonymous_user_a346a67f · December 25, 2015, 6:21pm

Attempt the import again but try importing normals and tangents rather than calculating them in ue4.