All morph targets entirely mess up on small scale assets!

[Poet_11 (William K)]

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A 3d program has WAY more resolution then a game engine can - it’s very simple math.
The game engine has to do a TON of things that a graphics program does not do. One of these things happens to be mathematical vertex precision.
The fact that it works in Unity is interesting, but it’s also part of why Unity sucks at graphics when compared to UE4. You end up using resources that are better spent elsewhere.

Regarding your issue and scaling. There is absolutely 0 problems scaling a whole rig in Blender, applying said scale, and having an exported FBX that is the exact size without having to leverage the import settings. Surely this is true for any other 3d software out there if it’s true for Blender of all things.

The question becomes testing how badly shrinking distorts in the end - it should not because calculations are performed before the shrinking - but you still have to test it thoroughly.

Another thing you maybe don’t realize is that you could pull the engine code, modify it, build it, and use a custom version of UE4 that does what you need - almost like every AAA game out there does in the end.

i do not think finding excuses for ue works here, i understand very well an engines limitations but this is not one of them. Proof unity works and i would bet you cryengine may work just as well.

also scaling a rig is not an option especially if your rig is anything decently complex for proper custom character animation. Also building scaling functions in the rig is a large task of its own and not recommended for most cases. I know because i have been rigging for 15 years. If a rig can be scaled in blender then it is either relatively a simple rig or a stock rig used for multiple purposes similar to CAT in max but start adding more functions and no.

the only way to scale it in that case is to scale the fbx export rig itself which i am already doing as a workaround.

lastly i disagree completely of unity being an inferior graphic engine its slowly proving to be the contrary just wait and mark my words when in a few years unity develops their visual scripting how indie devs will start flocking there. If you think it slows down something else in the engine then i believe the best judge of that is the dev not the engine, the engine should provide the options and we choose the compromise.

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this is a problem in ue, again sorry no excuses i am raising it here becuase it is and causes headaches. If Epic cares fine if they dont we have to live with it and i dont have the resources to dig its core looking for solutions and most other indies don’t either.