Export Rigged Model From Blender To UE4

[VidemusOKC]

You’re following Alimayo Arango’s tutorial for making a mech, which is a good tutorial but isn’t designed with game workflow in mind.

Look up vertex grouping. Join all the object meshes into one mesh. Assign all the vertices that are currently separate objects into their own vertex groups, make the vertex group the same name as the bone you want controlling it. Apply Armature modifier to the one mesh.

That’s the basics of it.

I know this because I was in the same spot a few weeks ago. And he didn’t have any clue what I meant or how to get it working with one mesh. I posted what I had found out about vertex grouping to help any newcomers with the same issue I had, but he said it wouldn’t be useful to beginners (and I think he deleted the post lol).

Anyway, the tutorial was good and I learned a lot from it. I credit him for getting me started. He’s just very helicopter about comments on his videos for some reason.

@OSUNightfall;122460

Okay, this is driving me nuts. I’ve created a model of a mech and rigged it with some bones. All of the pieces of the mech are parented to bones and it animates beautifully - in blender. But I’ve had no luck importing this into Blender no matter how many searches I do or how many tutorials on the subject I read. I’ve spent over a day reading dozens of posts but no single post seems to have an answer that works for me. I can import the mech as a static mesh and it’s fine, but if I try to export the skeleton with the mesh, on import everything is split apart into dozens of parts and skeletons, one for each object or bone in the scene.

Here is an image of my blender mesh with the object hierarchy:

All of the objects in the scene are parented to the armature. each piece of the mech is parented to a bone. So that’s the setup. Does anyone have any idea what is going wrong here?