Recently I decided to move from Maya to Blender and run into strange issue with custom skeletons. Below I attach images of two similar skeletons created in both programs.
I’m not really sure what’s going on here. What bothers me is that both programs depict the skeleton as the same, yet in UE4 the Blender version is clearly a different skeleton. Am I doing something wrong?
BTW, I’m aware of imported leafs in Blender version and that there is a different root (red bone in the images) in both skeletons. The point is only that moving the middle bone in both skeletons creates different results in UE4.
I just tested this and it worked fine for me… Blender 2.78 and Unreal 4.14. Unreal version 4.16 will delete the Armature “bone” for you automatically which is even better.
Thank you for your response. Have you tried to move Bone_001 and Bone_002 away from each other? Like in my fourth image. It is impossible to move them like that in Blender, Maya or in skeleton imported from Maya. Just skeleton imported from Blender gives me such results.
Below I attached the files I used to make the images. You can quickly see the difference importing FBX files to UE4 and moving the middle part of the skeletons. Files for Blender and Maya are also there, for reference.
I’m still not sure this is a bug… I see what you are saying… the bone base and bone end are different than Maya’s joints but they work the same way.
What exactly are you trying to do and maybe I can help more. If you rig correctly in Blender and animate in Blender, you should get the same result in the engine as you are seeing in Blender. Constraints are where you need to be careful. Just make a base deform rig that your constrained bones will bake to and you’ll be fine.
Because as it stands now, I’m not even sure if it’s a bug or not.