Blender to Unreal Tools, Part 1 - February 6 - Live from HQ

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@Emraj

Just started using Blender more heavily in my pipeline and was thinking about getting a better exporter addon to UE4 since its native FBX exporter leaves something to be desired. And there aren’t really any good options for materials either. Really looking forward to seeing how this works and what it can do.

@IppolitoGermer

Will it be possible to export “eevee” shaders?

We started working on this problem a year ago: share surface materials between Blender and UE4. Use Cycles/Eevee materials directly in Unreal, with a fully editable procedural node network on both ends. And got much of it working!

After interviewing game artists at GDC, ECGC, and SIGGRAPH, we shifted focus to develop kick-■■■ StaticMesh import/export. Something people wanted right away.

Should we dust off the Brigge for Materials prototype since there seems to be interest?