This is an amazingly concise and the most digestible 'clickthrough' as you say to really see the bigger picture of this entire workflow / pipeline. Thank you again for making this video! I will definitely use this workflow - Liked and subscribed

This was so helpful! I am a beginner and this tutorial is truly one of the kind. It was honestly so refreshing to find a tutorial that is straight to the point and even beginner like me can follow it with ease. Great work!

" Hope it helps" yes indeed it did, have been trying for a long time to do this. Thank you so much Nils

what a phenomenal in depth tutorial, thank you so much!!

if you have MERGE BONE ERROR, then simply reimport metahuman bosy to blender with import settings: check "manual orientation", select 'Forward Y' and 'Z Up', uncheck 'automatic bone orientation'. Make sure that clothes export orientaion is the same as metahuman import orientation listed above!

Holy crap out of all tutorials this one freakin helped me so good. I've been running through tutorials ALL FREAKIN WEEK, I'm getting massive clipping issues but I'm using Daz to Unreal Engine 5 so maybe that's it. Gen8 based skeleton. Not a lot of helpful tutorials on that, I wish there were. But WOW thank you so much bro. I subbed.

Let me know if you want a more detailed step-by-step tutorial!

@olastalmach4278

2 жыл бұрын

Yes please

@MrHamsterism

2 жыл бұрын

A weight painting tutorial would be great!

@NilsGallist

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrHamsterism Oh man, I am FAAAAR from perfekt when it comes to weight painting. I believe there are more qualified artists out there to teach weightpainting.

@kennetherhabor5543

2 жыл бұрын

Detailed step-by-step tutorial please.

@illie6051

Жыл бұрын

Awesome tutorial, I subscribed. If you have a workflow to create custom hair too it would be great!

Thank you for introducing me to Marvelous Designer.

Meta-moses! This is excellent, thanks for making the video!

Amazing tutorial! Thanks a lot

FINALLY found a Solution to the error everyone has been getting. For "FAILED TO MERGE BONES" The problem is that when Importing the body mesh, I had imported it with "Automatic Bone Orientation" enabled. That was a mistake because Unreal can't read the bones once blender changes them. Also, when exporting the clothes, make sure to Enable "Armature and Mesh " just as he does in the video. THANK ME LATER !!!

@kristajohnson9173

Жыл бұрын

please thumbs up this so people see it and make sure to do it before getting too far!

@bryanodhiambo5518

Жыл бұрын

@@kristajohnson9173 so cool to know what I actually helped someone 😄

@cgioverloaded2589

Жыл бұрын

Subscribing you out of mere respect !!!

@zurasaur

Жыл бұрын

ur a god in these streets bro!!!! thanks

@eunachaanakya

Жыл бұрын

i have do this but still same

awesome 👍👍😎 nils thanks

Thanks for making the video! It's very helpful!

Instant subscribe. Soo helpful man. Can't thank you enough.

that was quick and awesome

You are a saint! Thank you for this video!

Thank you - Very helpful!

Love the way you explain it, subbed as well! Will be trying this out soon.

Thank you, I'm looking for this

Great Tut!

Incredible and ty! Well deserved sub!!

Thanks nil!

Thanks man, u are a life saver!

thank you very much for this

wow..just wow..TQ

Thanks for making that for us :)

Just what I needed, no extra bullshit, thanks! Subbed.

This is beautiful and finally something helpful too! I would really appreciate it if you would consider doing a tutorial on how to prepare such a mesh for gaming. I saw many triple A studios actually are able to rig these clothes and then siimulate them on their character so they move in real-time. I know UE5 also does that and is capable of it without having too big performance issues so any tutorial on that would be wild!

@LupusMechanicus

Жыл бұрын

right click, generate cloth asset, right click apply cloth asset.

@WolfGuy1

Жыл бұрын

@@LupusMechanicus do you consider that not remeshing the cloth before importing to ue5 like on this video it's something suggested? I mean , they're already has uv's.

It is a very good tutorial, it would be great if you could show a little more about what the animated suit looks like, greetings

wo so clean explanation,

great lesson

thank you!!

Thank you so much!

thanks this saved me!

I Love You Tutorials! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111

amazing how this workflow is almost entirely free

@AdamButler664

10 ай бұрын

almost?

Good tutorial.

Excellente!

Nice! And 3D Jesus at that! 😀

thank you

Thanks!

wow!

Thank you man. They want $600 for a couple of cloths on the unreal market. Unbelievable!

@kristajohnson9173

Жыл бұрын

I mean the parts hes not showing you is what the simple automated transfer weights looks like when animating. I can guess how it looks, and its.. not great. There is a hundred million bones that you need to know how to do fine weight paint properly to make it look nice, its so much time and effort. To say nothing of what it would take to get swishy cloth effects. When you think about how many man hours those $600 outfits took? Not that unreasonable.

Thanks for this useful tutorial Can you make another awesome tutorial to show how we can add animation to this character with clothes animation

Thanks

! yes!

This process made me want to rip my hair out but I found a tool METATAILOR that does this in about 60 seconds. Life saver!

@NilsGallist

5 ай бұрын

Had some up´s and downs with METATAILOR, but definitly a cool software, yes.

THX!!!

A noob question but how do you save the Tshirt presets?

Very nice tutorial! How woud you go about creating a cape? It seems like it would require a different method for attaching

greatest tutorial clothing metahuman, wait to see full tutorial

Great tutorial but I'm having an issue now where I import back into UE5 and now it separates the mesh textures from the mesh into 6 texture files

Great tutorial, any Idea on making Hoodies and stuff? Can't parent stuff to the head bones this way

Hey if I wanted to do this same workflow but use the metahuman with a T pose is that easy to accomplish?

完美

What do i need to do if i used a character that isn't Metahuman and doesn't have a body / legs option on the BP? If i add the clothes to Skeletal mesh it gets rid of the characters skin mesh, and looks like a ghost wearing clothes when i press play and run around..

This has got to be the most convoluted process ever. Everything about clothing on characters seems to be over-the-top complicated when it doesn't have to be. I can't wait for Epic to buy out marvelous designer and integrate the cloth sim directly in Unreal. Or for someone to create a cross-platform plug-in that allows us to sidestep all the joining, converting, importing, and exporting bs.

Great tutotial, thank you! I only have 1 problem, my clothes seems fine and fitting perfect in viewport, but ingame the clothes are a little outside from the character, should I edit the animations one by one or what do you think is the problem?

@aritrachoudhury8409

7 ай бұрын

I am facing this same problem. Did you find a fix for this? @mikkelherbst5185

Basically, every single piece of cloth, you still need to use the rig and do the skinning before importing to UE5? Would it not work, if you just import the mesh, and while importing you assign the Metahuman Base Skeleton?

any chance you know how to export the hair and textures of the meta as well?

do you turn off the Level of Detail & Collisions for the body export as well as the face?

Love this!! Only thing im having trouble with, when I get it into UE5 the colors and texts from the shirt are gone. its just white? Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Another reason you could be having the merge bone problem: Blender renamed your "root" bone. If its not "root" and instead "root.08" or whatever (maybe you made 8 copies of the scene like I did), then unreal will not recognize the metahuman rig when you try to bring it back from Blender into UE. Rename it to just Root.

Thank you so much for this tutorial. Just one question. If I have say 3 or 4 different garments, is it better to repeat the same process for each or combine them and import them as one?

@CryptoManSam20

Жыл бұрын

Wondering if you found anything out. I am in the middle of trying it as one FBX right now. I had to do the transfer weight steps in blender separately, doing the shift and click upward to root 3 times from top to bottom. I had two shoes and a core piece of clothing.

@CryptoManSam20

Жыл бұрын

I will be reworking it in the future. As separate fbxs I'd imagine that there will be less clipping between the character and the shoes. Everything tracks decently, but I do get feet clipping through the shoes on occasion.

Hey, so, I used your tutorial but for some reason my skeletal mesh imported without any bones even tho I assigned it the correct skeleton. I tried with the third-person basic mannequin too and that imported with bones but doesn't move even though it has a anim graph assigned to it. Please let me know what might be causing this to your knowledge

@ErblinAhmeti

Жыл бұрын

did you find the solution yet?

Curious, when I try to import my model into marv it says the model needs to be in T pose? How do I fix this?

hello how to add clothes but moving with any animation the meta human will have ?

The training was excellent, thank you. I could add costume to the character, the costume sits on the tension, but when I create a animte character, the costume separates from the metahuman, what do I do ??

@NilsGallist

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, the info you provided are less than needed for giving a qualified response. The Unreal Forums are a great resource to find out and network with other artists who might have solved that problem. You can find me in these Forums under "MondRubberduck". Shoot me a message with screenshots, then I might be able to assist.

@NilsGallist

2 жыл бұрын

After thinking about it... Are you sure, that your Clothes AND Metahuman use the same Animation Asset / Animation Blueprint?

@shbhideh6079

2 жыл бұрын

@@NilsGallist I will try again, maybe I made a mistake somewhere .. if I could not .. I will send you a screenshot in the Unreal forum .. Thank you

Thank you very much! got everything working flawlessly UNTIL I added the animation class to the clothes. Then, they changed location of the clothes under my character's feet :( any idea why that could be?

@rafaortiz585

Жыл бұрын

I have the same problem .- . i try to find something about this but i dont see nothing D: its works on UE4 but in 5 my cloth melting down to the feets xd like this i.gyazo.com/9683d6109bc9ec2a68e7ceaa81abb603.png

@rafaortiz585

Жыл бұрын

Ok, i try with another blender version and its works :D cloth doesnt melt anymore :D :D :D i.gyazo.com/7bb4d6dd83ef16b6d378ee93bdab1668.png

@rafaortiz585

Жыл бұрын

Nah, was LODs its works on -1,2 and 3 but if you change to LODs 4 cloth just melt down :

I am new to this and have to additionally google tons of info on every single step. What is Alt+P in Blender on a mac tho? Option+P doesn't work, neither does command nor control+p work

I am trying to make metahuman as my character in unreal, but file is soo large, and the groom looks terrible, is there a way to put it into blender and reexport smaller file ?

hey how to export metahuman body as preview like in the video without LOD? or exporting body same like export face? need fast respon please

Did you tested cloth paint (weight) inside unreal?

I had this down last year but something changed with Blender 3, now my rigs all come in with wrong joint orientations even though I follow the steps, How can I get these rigs not to flip?

@NilsGallist

2 жыл бұрын

I don't quite know what you mean by "rigs not to flip". I am using 3.1 as well and it works as expected. Make sure to use the standard export fbx settings and do not change the joint orientation in the settings.

@LeFantasticPlanet

2 жыл бұрын

@@NilsGallist The bones are coming in oriented wrong, so the rig is flipping each bone and the whole mesh goes horizontal, in this case, actually, the head is flipping forward 90 degrees on the X. I set my rig to export exactly as the settings show. The funny thing is this worked before 3, I got clothes on the MH last summer in 2.9. Try try again. I do use Better FBX as an addon Thanks for checking in, let me know if you have any insights

Nice video, but when I add animation to the Metahuman the cloth will be at one place, help solve it

Importing the clothing always brings up the error message "FAILED TO MERGE BONES" and asks to regenerate the skeleton which messes everything up. I have the exact same export settings and I feel like I've tried everything at this point.

@horizon5431

Жыл бұрын

*IF ANYONE ELSE HAS THIS PROBLEM* It is because Unreal thinks that the top node of the skeleton that you imported (which is probably a group with the same name as the skeletal mesh) is a entirely new bone, which messes up the hierarchy. When exporting your clothes from the 3d software, make sure to take everything out of the group first so that you're only exporting the skeleton and clothes.

@Giga3D811

Жыл бұрын

make sure ypure exporting ALL the bones in the hierarchy bro.

@EmpticStudios

11 ай бұрын

I’m still confused

Hmmm... looking something more dynamic :/ so if I wanted same clothes for different body types, I would need to redo clothing mesh or wait, make base bones adjustable so the clothes also would adjust to it, right? Brain why you can't take things step by step and not go for PRO mode right away... :/

Hi there. This workflow is outdated in Unreal Engine 5.1. I’m getting skeletal mesh error, pls can you make an updated tutorial . Help pls

Is your blender file set to cm? Great video btw

@NilsGallist

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. I didn´t change the "right out of the gate" settings from blender. So as long as you didn´t change it when launching blender, you should be fine.

Can you please make a Update on this video for UE5.4 & MD workflow?

Hi Nils. So, did you buy it?

why the clothes disappeared when zooming in?

I noticed when I did this the neck bones don't seem to have weights.

The moment I press the simulation, the clothes get smaller and stick to my body. How can I solve this problem?

Hello thanks for the tutorial, I am having trouble with the animation part of the metahuman. I imported the clothing and applied it to the skeleton. When I start to animate the metahuman the clothing does not move with animation. Is there any documentation or something I need to look into? Thanks!!!

@user-nc7iv1on6d

3 ай бұрын

Did you work it out?

@gclef101

2 ай бұрын

@@user-nc7iv1on6d sorry for the late reply I have not found a solution yet, if you find one please let me know!!!

@user-nc7iv1on6d

2 ай бұрын

@@gclef101 Because I needed real-time animation, I brushed out some parts through the official Chao Cloth cloth simulation. However, I'm going to test the UE5.4 version today, which can be transferred directly from md to ue, and then it seems that the cloth aspect has been officially solved

@gclef101

2 ай бұрын

@@user-nc7iv1on6d Wow that is cool I will try this out for my future projects in 5.4, if there is a way to do this in 5.3 I would love to know!!!

Is it just me or is only the torso showing up in blender after the import? How do I fix this?

Can you please tell us how to import a character to blender with all the textures and shit. I can’t figure out how to export eyes, eyebrows, hair, eye lashes. I have been stuck for several weeks. I am so frustrated

@NilsGallist

2 жыл бұрын

Heyo, Exporting the materials from Unreal Engine to Blender is not possible without plugins and extensions. These are just 2 completely separate things. Same as doing a paint job on a car. In the end, you just apply a new color to an object, but you cant just use a brush and color from the warehouse and expect the same results as done in a professional workshop. Just two different worlds. To get the materials, you have to export the textures and build your materials in Blender from anew. Content-> Metahumans-> Common-> "Filter Textures" -> Look for the appropriate one and -> right click: Asset Actions: Export

@TheFunDimension

2 жыл бұрын

@@NilsGallist thank you I understand

failed to merge bones why ? plz

Did not work for me. When I imported into unreal 4.27 it says that the skeleton needs to regenerate, which will cause all sorts of issues. I made sure to have the same export settings as you. Didnt change a thing. Used the same skeleton that i exported from unreal and all adn selected it on import. Keeps giving me that message to regenerate. I did this for the sweater, tried to give it a shirt Any ideas

@horizon5431

Жыл бұрын

@Joshua Lowes I also tried this. Still having the same issue as him.

@MasterPiffy

Жыл бұрын

When in blender tithe first thing you have to do after importing the rigged mesh and your new clothing is add the armature to the clothing, then you shift click and drag the clothing onto the body rig root, then delete all lods body rig leaving a single LOD, preferably the original LOD 0, then you control clock the LOD rigged mesh, then control click the clothing, change to weight painting, transfer weights, by name, you cannot skip this part at all, that's where most people f-up. Then you go back to object mode, delete the body mesh so theres only the clothing and rig left, and export the armature and rig

does it move. is the clothes simulation or weight painted to the character's rig?

@NilsGallist

5 ай бұрын

It is weightpainted to the character. This meany, it will take the same animation file as the avatar skeleton.

Hello, There are problems on the UE side of my character and I wanted to weight paint in blender, but I can't, I can't paint at all. Why could it be? I would be very happy if you could help me.

I've got a problem where the clothing mesh comes in enormous in blender, compared to the body mesh.

hello, can we modify the metahuman with zbrush and re import it ?

@NilsGallist

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, as long as you you dont add geometry. Then you have to think about weights again. Typically I´d recomend solving issues with textures first... but I understand that´s not always possible.

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I've managed to get this to work, but for the life of me i cannot get it to work consistently. I cannot figure out why but i have to redo the blender weight painting part of the tutorial about 6 times before i can successfully get it into unreal. I'll face the issues of the armature not binding to the clothing and bone heiracrchy changes on the clothing. unreal has no debug info on what the actual fck is causing the fault..

Is this support cloth physics ?

@NilsGallist

2 жыл бұрын

Sure, you can enable cloth physics on this garment. Yes

can you do one for blender

What about retargeting clothes to another character? 👁️👁️👃👁️👁️