Action RPG Inventory System

[The_Simon_Sez]

@Rhynedahll;482287

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.

That definitely gives me a good starting point. There are so many different tutorials floating around out there, and it is a bit daunting for me without a real direct path moving forward. This should help me, and probably others, get started. The only one, at least in the case of ARPGIS, that strikes me as odd, is number seven (7). How would I use the item without a skeletal mesh? Or would that be part of number eight (8): importing it as both a static, then a skeletal mesh? That seems to be the majority of my issues at the moment. Thank you again!