Maya to ue4 multiple materials Problem

anonymous_user_24570ebd · May 10, 2016, 3:26pm

Hi, I have applied 1 material to the head and 1 to the body in Maya, Importing The skeletal mesh into UE4 IT shows 3 Materials/ elements on the mesh,

I dont know where the 3rd material has come from.

And the 2 materials are not on the faces I chose (head, Body) Instead they are scattered randomly.

VictorBurgos · May 10, 2016, 4:05pm

Show pics please of Maya Model and then inside UE4. You may have had a default lambert hidden in there also.

anonymous_user_24570ebd · May 10, 2016, 4:35pm

Thanks for the reply! the lighter shade is the head material

Luos · May 10, 2016, 5:12pm

You might need to check your material ID’s in maya.

anonymous_user_24570ebd · May 10, 2016, 5:23pm

If checking material ID’s in maya is making sure the faces have the correct material then I have already triple checked,

anonymous_user_24570ebd · May 10, 2016, 5:30pm

I FOUND A FIX!

I turned off triangulate at FBX export options in maya…

And it came out perfect!

Any idea to why this happened? it seemed like triangulating the mesh through the FBX export messed my material ids

Luos · May 10, 2016, 5:51pm

Sounds like an export bug to me

VictorBurgos · May 10, 2016, 6:37pm

Maya(lT) 2016 currently has a bug associated with the Triangulate button on export. Disable it and triangulate BEFORE you try to export it.