Retargeting animation blueprint screws up mesh

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So I added an armature to a lego minifigure model in blender this morning and I went through the process of animation retargeting found here:

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Animation/RetargetingDifferentSkeletons/index.html

First of all, when I imported the .fbx, I noticed the hands look all wonky. It’s almost like they look inside out (see pic). If you have any idea how I could fix that, please let me know.

39330-hands.jpg

But here’s my real problem: After I used the retarget manager to set up the rig using the humanoid pre-set, and retargeted the ThirdPersonAnimBlueprint to the minifigure, the minifigure’s mesh got all messed up. Basically, it looks like a little exclamation point.

39331-wanimationblueprint.jpg

I can run and jump all over the default level just like I should be able to, but I just look like a ridiculous punctuation mark jumping all over the place. Any idea what I did wrong?

Just to make I had the procedure right, I went thought the process of retargeting the SWAT skeleton from the mixamo character pack. I had no problem retargeting the third person animation blueprint to the SWAT guy.

Any help you could give me would be very much appreciated.

Thanks!

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Just experienced the same issue with a character imported from Blender 2.76. It looks like a scaling issue, but I don’t know how to fix it in UE4. If you figure out a solution it would be much appreciated!

The hands looking inside out is an easy one though, their normals are just inverted.