I have a modular character, and when creating a control rig for the character mesh, I’m unable to display the additional meshes in the preview scene of the control rig.
The initial mesh appears fine in the viewport, but when adding the additional meshes in “Preview Scene Settings” > “Additional Meshes”, the viewport stays the same. I tried compiling, saving and restarting UE4.26.
Has anyone else experienced this issue or is this a known bug?
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers!
Update: So there is an issue with saving the mesh collection inside the control rig.
When I open the control rig, I’m able to add the additional skeletal meshes to the preview, and save it as a mesh collection. But after I close the control rig and open it back again, I am unable to load the mesh collection. Nothing happens when I load it. The viewport only shows the initial mesh.
This issue occurs in 4.26.2, 4.27 and 5.
It looks like this bug hasn’t been fixed for aeons(!):
I’m in UE5.1 and it still happens, it’s very annoying, it is not just the fact that it does not save the collection, which would be anecdotal, but when you start using a collection that replaces the default transient one, you will no longer be able to preview any additional mesh, not without having to restart the engine to restore the default transient collection.
I’ve found a very clunky workaround, you can copy the array of skeletal meshes from your saved collection, then, in the array “skeletal meshes” bellow the additional meshes section in the controlRig editor, add the same number of entries by clicking the plus icon, and then you can paste the copied values. If the entries don’t match, the out of bounds elements will not be displayed, even when they are being added as well.
Edit: This workaround doesn’t solve the main problem at all, but it’s useful if you need to preview a very large collection.
