Blender animations to unreal: Unreal engine completely ruins animations

anonymous_user_7a63b3ff · October 23, 2016, 7:01pm

Hello, i have been animating in blender for a couple of days now on a 2D-3D Stick Figure. Animations and Rigging works completely fine in Blender, but when i export (FBX) my project into Unreal engine, it completely messes everything up. I have been looking this up since yesterday and haven’t found anything, so i decided to post it. Is there anyway for Unreal not to mess with anything from blender? Thanks for reading.

anonymous_user_b9532c9a · October 24, 2016, 6:42pm

Hi busterwackycrash,

What export and import settings are you using when attempting to import your animations?
Are you attempting to use them on a specific model or are you using the unreal mannequin? If you are using the unreal mannequin, did you use the rig for it initially or have you re-targeted your animations to be compatible with the UE ?
What steps can I take to reproduce this in a clean, blank project with no additional content?
What Blender version are you using?
I see you have posted the product version as 4.10, is this the version you are currently using? Have you tried a later version to see if the error still occurs?

anonymous_user_7a63b3ff · October 28, 2016, 1:12am

Hi, sorry for the late response. Have you checked the Image?

I don’t touch my Export/Import settings really. I export using FBX.

I am doing this on a model i created on blender. Its a 2D flat model i created. (I wonder if rigging with 2D planes causes it to become glitchy.)

Steps you could take probably is recreating this by using 2D planes and rigging them. After that i would hope you would be able to export your model to UE4 via FBX without any random problems occur (Like this question i am asking)

Version: Blender 2.75 a

Yes, i am using version 4.10 on Unreal. I have not tried to downgrade onto a later version. I feel like if i did that, Unreal would lose any new features previously installed that might have been useful. (I basically mean i’d rather stay on the latest UE4 version for the newest content and bug fixes.)

So yeah, that it. Thanks again!
P.s Is there like anyway Unreal could just not totally mess with the blender files making them worst?

anonymous_user_b90d4050 · October 28, 2016, 5:35am

When I first started I had a problem similar to this for a really long time. Blender to Unreal can be a real pain. What I found that fixed it was just to make sure the scaling for the mesh is all set to 1,1,1 and the scaling of the armature is also set to 1,1,1.

A_GUPTA · October 28, 2016, 6:52am

https://www…com/watch?v=NkJPfGEcrrA

in the following vid U go to 1:20 You will seee the settings
in 1:40 change the scale to … 0.010 “metric”
I know it is a flat object that U created yet I submitted the answer of how import is done.
hope this helps if not I will try something to help again.

anonymous_user_7a63b3ff · October 30, 2016, 4:32pm

Yes, i scaled my mesh which was 0.125 to 1 but, i am still having the same problems, all that did was just scale up the mesh and it also made the animating/armature problems look larger. I also made sure my mesh was scaled to 1. Thanks.

anonymous_user_7a63b3ff · October 30, 2016, 4:39pm

Okay so i tried what you said, and basically the same thing happen to what i said to the previous comment above. All it did was this time, it scaled my mesh down super tiny, but the problems were still there. Thanks

Geodav · October 30, 2016, 5:28pm

this might help
Blender setup

skelmesh + anim

btw i don’t come here often so catch me on the forums if your still stuck

A_GUPTA · October 30, 2016, 4:56pm

ok I’ll have a look

A_GUPTA · October 30, 2016, 4:59pm

Your animation goes in a different direction than what rendered in blender

anonymous_user_7a63b3ff · October 30, 2016, 5:07pm

Hmm okay, so how would i fix that?

A_GUPTA · October 30, 2016, 5:12pm

one question have you set the root bone

anonymous_user_7a63b3ff · October 30, 2016, 5:20pm

No i have not set the root bone? What is that, and should i do that? Thanks.

A_GUPTA · October 30, 2016, 5:35pm

if not set a root bone on import ue4 seeks for a root bone .first. then what U can do is create the mesh rig with the bones . do not create the animation yet. export as .fbx select default in .fbx with only armature and mesh selected so that the mesh will be imported first without destroying the mesh(but,check to see if the bone roll axis is oriented correctly in blender)
fbx 7.4 binary
T0As Ref Pose should be selected at import into UE4.

now come back to blender and create a small animation export it now in the export settings select export armature only as .fbx. During import select the mesh to which U wanted to add the animation.

A_GUPTA · October 31, 2016, 4:25am

did U check the bone orientation . also have a look at the tutorial series posted by GeoDav

A_GUPTA · October 31, 2016, 4:29am

another question in the first step when U import only the mesh and armature is the body deformed ?

anonymous_user_7a63b3ff · October 31, 2016, 4:22am

Yes i just imported my mesh, then i imported the animations and it still did not work. Also i tried to look up the root bone option but i didn’t really see that. Hmm i thought this would be an easy fix, i literally just have a 2D figure with a rig and unreal is messing with everything. XD Thanks. Anything more?

anonymous_user_b9532c9a · October 31, 2016, 7:23pm

Hi busterwackycrash,

Do you have a sample asset I can take a look at that is reproducing this error?

anonymous_user_7a63b3ff · November 1, 2016, 2:21am

Actually, no it’s not, the mesh seems to operate and rotate just fine. That might have helped alot, maybe it is just the animations with a 2D model causing the model/animations to look bad.

anonymous_user_7a63b3ff · November 1, 2016, 2:24am

Yea i am still searching for that, his tutorials are 20 minutes long, and i have trying to search for the specific part, it’s just i wish he would have told me the part of the video it was on. I am still looking.