Action RPG Inventory System

[Rhynedahll]

@chlballi;482269

I was wondering, can anyone point me to a good set of tutorials (I’d hate to ask for another to add to the queue here) to accurately get an existing mesh to play nice and be built using the existing skeleton so we can add working objects into the system? I’m pretty new to modeling, and I fought with it for a while and managed to either get a mesh that blinks/doesnt show up or get a mesh that is gigantic regardless of import scale or export settings. Rather then banging my head against a wall, only to figure it out by accident, I figured I’d ask on here since I’ve seen other people successfully add other objects. As a note, I have been able to add weapons, since they seem to use a more traditional ‘Attach’ approach rather than a skeletal one. Thanks in advance!

I search for and go through quite a few tutorials every week and as far as I know at this point, a complete tutorial showing a full end-to-end asset pipeline that starts in a 3d program and ends up in ARPGIS does not exist.

However, all the necessary steps are covered (at least for Blender and I would expect the same to be true for other 3d software) in various tutorials that exist on Youtube. A search with the following listed terms should turn up suitable videos.

To my understanding so far, this is the basic flow:

1. Export UE4 Skeletal mesh as .fbx
2. Import .fbx into 3d program (such as Blender)
3. Create model with materials
4. Parent to bone(s)
5. Weight paint model
6. Export model with skeleton and materials to .fbx
7. Export model with materials as static mesh (no skeleton) to .fbx
8. Reimport both 7&8 to UE4.