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I recommend not moving the bones around in Edit mode or Pose mode or it might confuse Unreal (Edit mode it definitely will, Pose mode might impact retargeting). You probably want to replace the mesh with your own. Instead, select the “root” armature, then click (with the cursor in the 3D view window, and do this in Object mode) ALT-P, then select Clear and Keep Transformation. Don’t just delete it, that will not keep the transform of the children. The empty is a problem: when you export from Blender and re-import into UE4, the empty turns into a new root bone and that fouls everything up.

There is an SK_Mannequin empty, and its child is the “root” armature, and its child is the SK_Mannequin.001 (or something like that-the.

In the Outliner view, if you expand a couple levels, you will see the hierarchy with an empty having an armature child, having a mesh child. The importer parents the armature to an empty. Also, while the bones are parented correctly, they are not actually connected-leave it like this, since “fixing” it will cause problems, as I was able to verify. Annoyingly (and I know no workaround), the left-side bones are oriented in the opposite direction from the right-side bones.

Verify the skeleton is correct by selecting one of the bones (there are a few huge IK bones that are easy to select) to select the armature, and then in the Properties panel (by default to the right) with the Armature tab (looks like a little man with arms stretched out and a wide stance) selected, check the X-Ray box in the Display section. You might have to zoom to see it: It is 1.927 blender units high.

Navigate to the file you just exported from UE4 and select it, then click Import FBX.

Then henceforth you can load the settings instantly by clicking on Operator Presets and selecting UE4 or whatever you named it.

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Optionally, click the plus sign (+) to the right of Operator Presets to save these settings, giving it a name like UE4.

Of course, later when you export FBX from blender, make sure the axes settings are the same as the import axes settings! Note changing the axes is optional-you might actually prefer the defaults! (I actually do, but googling shows many don’t). A few settings do have to be changed from the defaults: UE4’s bone axes are a little different from the Blender default.

Select the Main tab in this panel and keep the default values, which look like this.

You will see a screen with (by default at the lower-left corner) an Import FBX panel.

In the menu bar at the top (assuming the default layout), select File→Import→FBX (.fbx).

Open Blender to a new scene and delete the default cube.

Unchecking Level of Detail and Collision should be harmless (I don’t think they have any effect on a skeletal mesh). All other options can be left as default. So, change Fbx Export Compatibility to FBX 2014.

An FBX Export Options window will appear.

Choose an appropriate directory and name (such as SK_Mannequin.fbx).

Navigate to the folder Content/AnimStarterPack/UE4_Mannequin/Mesh, then right-click the SK_Mannequin asset in the content browser.

In the content directory, you should now see an AnimStarterPack folder. In the Epic Games Launcher, find the Animation Starter Pack in your vault and click Add to Project, and select the project you have created or chosen to use.

Pull animations out of fbx unity for free#

Download, if you don’t already have it, the Animation Starter Pack available for free in the Marketplace.Start with a UE4 project, an existing one or create a new one.

Exporting the Mannequin in 18 easy steps! This is not really a quick-and-easy job despite the humor in the next heading. Yeah, that’s 18 steps, but then the other jobs take lots of steps too…. The first job is to export the mannequin so it can be used in Blender. I’m also using Blender 2.79, again should work in recent Blender versions (2.8 and above is supposed to be a major change in Blender so it might fail there). I am using Unreal Engine version 4.18, but it should be similar in recent engine versions. The older versions of Unreal Engine 4 it just doesn’t work, apparently, but the later versions, I got it to mostly work by searching online, through the Udemy Blender Character Creator course, and through lots of trial-and-error. Searching online, I see many (like me) have wanted to work on characters in Blender by exporting the Mannequin skeleton provided by Epic, but there are problems with doing this.