Break skeletal mesh after breaking constraint

[Nobodikilla]

@MostHost_LA

For any dismemberment you need your whole character to be set up for it with a split mesh.

If using mr mannequin you would take it to blender, edit the mesh and separate by loose parts.

Then you could import the parts one at a time associated with the same skeleton.

Then in the character BP you would recombine the parts.

And you need to sync up the animation between all the meshes.

Then, obviously, once you dismember you can disable the sync of the animation and maybe replace the mesh with a different bloody version after some kind of particle effect to hide the switch. Or spawn a decal. Depends on what you are going for.

Many tutorials out there on how to stitch parts together and sync them. Look those up and you should be able to get it rolling

Ps: ita a bit performance intensive, but if fortnite can run on mobile with a fully blinged character this shouldn’t really affect performance at all.

Thanks for a definitive no. It forced me out of my comfort zone and into blender. I will. Just select and delete get it working based on your feedback. So thanks!

For anyone else with this issue this is how I handled it.
tutorial to separate objects in blender. There is one on YouTube that is only two minutes long. I separated the head, saved the dhead as it’s on model and imported into unreal. It was actually pretty easy.

Made the head a bp. When character head hit I “hide bone” head and spawn head BP. This works in my case because I don’t need to separate entire from there if you get creative you will achieve your dismemberment goals.

After exporting the model into blender I had some issues with bones just select and delete. Then there was an issue where blender didn’t recognize imported object as main object right away. Had to hit tab repeatedly or something like that.