Hey I managed to get this to work for now using Blender and Maya. Can probably do it all in one but I couldn’t figure out how to. Its not like PERFECTLY exact but pretty much good enough, you could play with the mesh orientation a bit to make it fit the mesh more if you want at the end. I wrote it as I did it so I could refer to it later. If you want to to do it here’s the instructions.
**Get the Mesh only (blender)**
1. Export FBX from unreal to a folder
1. Import into fresh Blender project (delete any blender default stuff)
1. Click the hand anywhere and in the top right open the first in the tree
1. Click the mesh (triangle looking icon)
1. Then in the main window press ALT+P and choose clear parent
1. Then in the top right, RIGHT click on the skeleton and DELETE
1. Now you should just have the MESH
1. EXPORT it and call it whatever_meshOnly
**Apply to UE4 skeleton (maya)**
1. Open Maya project supplied [here](https://www.dropbox.com/s/hetilo6vxr8h96m/hand_meshMove_base.mb?dl=1) (I prepped the epic skeleton already)
1. Click File > Import and import the Blender exported Ironbelly fbx_meshOnly into project (dont drag and drop, use file > import)
1. You’ll now have a mesh sitting beside the skeleton
1. Click hierarchy view (General (top left) > 7 from the end little boxes icon)
1. Click the Mesh off to the side of the sekeleton to highlight it
1. Set the location as follows (top right box first tab translate X, Y etc..)
*Copy and paste wont seem to work*
b. Translate Left to right
13.107
-0.476
-6.324
c. Rotate Left to Right
177.056
58.488
5.782
.
1. Back in the hierarchy view (step 12) click the root hand_r and while holding SHIFT click the MESH so both are selected
1. Under the animation tab (where general etc is) click the smooth bind icon (skeleton overlapping human beside split head)
1. Export all >Save FBX as mesh_DefaultSkel whatever you want
1. Import to unreal > choose the default epic hand skel
1. Cry over how much time you had to waste on this
Hopefully Ironbelly still fixes this as its not a nice way to do this