Exporting a combinedmesh from Maya to UE4 problem

[ArmenB]

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So far i have only combined meshes that use one materials. Objects that require several materials i keep separated. I dont know if its the proper way to do it but i remember reading somewhere
in the UE4 documentation to avoid using several materials on the same mesh if you are making a mobile game.
I think its safer to export all materials to UE4 as basic lamberts or phongs and then create the new material in UE4 as UE4 ,being a game engine it dosent support all the materials in Maya, as Maya is also for film production. Games have a very different approach to how they use light and materials as they need to be real time rendered many times per second where a movie
can have a frame that takes hours or days to render.
Therefore sending over complex materials from maya will probably result in changes to settings and nodes, so even the ones that are supported might still need work after export if alot of work is done to then in Maya. So i think it saves time creting them in UE4
to begin with.

So for this example of a door, you import 3 different models and combine them into a single model in unreal? This is a pure guess, but don’t you think you will slow down the collision detection work?
Regarding the material type, I created 3 different materials in Maya all of them are basic lamberts with different color, so then I can apply the proper textures in Unreal. It’s not so much I care about the material itself, because during import I don’t import the material. However, I do all this in order to maintain the “placeholder” to apply different materials to the object. Maybe this method isn’t the proper way of doing things?