[Blender] Same model but different shading quality?

[TeotiGraphix]

@Awesome_Junior_Miss;198995

Hi, . I’ve been using blender as my modeling workflow for UE4 for months. I found a decent way to export FBX from blender to UE4. When working with smoothing group in blender(Only for UE4 workflow), first, you must all sharp edges which are supposed to be sharp by selecting those edges and Ctrl+E to open the Edges menu then click Sharp command in the menu. Next step, you can just export FBX with setting smoothing mode to “Edge” in exporting settings, don’t apply any Edge Split modifier when exporting, you can preview the smoothing group effect by adding a Edge Split but never actually apply it (Important for UE4 FBX workflow with Blender currenly!). By the way, make sure the entire geometry is smooth shaded, if not, you should select all edges and execute “Shade Smooth” command. That’s all. Good luck.

Thank you for this! I was using the face method when exporting the FBX and was trying to figure out the correct setup.

So basically what I gather is that UE4 is splitting the edges that we sharp correct and adding vertices?