Full Blender support for UE4 in 2019?

[neighborlee]

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Maybe I’m spoiled by having a good computer with 64gb of ram to boot, but I have never found the blender UI to be slow in the past year.
Even faster since I started using the gfx studio drivers.

I’m normally working tons of polygons, and an unwrap of 30k tris or more does take 20 to 30 min. The trick is to work in such a way you never need to unwrap 30k tris or quads actually at once.

Regardless of that. I made my own tools for compatibility, and the FBX format is anything but Close.
you can find all the specs you need to integrate things (like I did for animation curves).
What’s more is that most of the work is pre-done in the exporter for anyone wanting to take the time to modify it.

LODs are essentially already there too. They just work awkwardly, and it’s best to my workflow to script them in as only taken into account when ans empty is starting with LOD_

that’s actually precisely what my curves plugin does.

Is it a nuisance to have to export to FBX and manually import? Sure.
is it a game changer to your workflow?
absolutely not.

In fact, I don’t even import materials, often I create the proper material instance before import using the correct variety of automated material, and the import process just assigned the correct unreal material for me based on name alone.

Having Materials come in from blender is bs anyway. Half the textures would be missing as I believe only the diffuse is packed to the FBX. Naturally, that’s also something easy to change, I for one (probably like many blender coders) do not see a point.

All that in mind, I have to admit that I was so disappointed over the lack of tools that I spent my first month coding said tools to achieve a stable production environment.
And I do offer said plugins free of charge despite the obvious cost to me of doing so.

And speaking of free stuff, having Mr. Lima in this thread (yet terribly OT), what’s the status of the community ocean project with .24 ?

Oh, and adding on to the topic at hand, keep in mind that Epic seems dead set against publishing my plugin for blender in a similar fashion as they do with their ArtV2 plugin. I take this to mean they intend to create their own set of tools.

Lucky you, but your experience is not that common, hence the issue . Blenderartist KNOWN issue, has been for a very long time. You must admit, having that much ram while cool and awesome, you don’t represent a large majority, hence why blender dev, faik, last I knew said the viewport ‘fix’ may not come until a few more versions. Blender users admire blender fortons of reasons, but atm , 3ds max 2020 blows it out of the water on viewport performance, but I hope that fact is shortly , if ever, a thing of the past.

Blender Edit Mode Performance

Nov 4
Bought new PC, R7 3700x, 64GB RAM, 2070 Super, new M2 drive. Performance is still bad especially using subdivision surface or undo. It’s hard to work on high detailed models.

In 2.79 modeling (with subdv) and undo was faster, but object mode with hundreds of meshes was very problematic,
in 2.81 modeling (with subdv) and undo is really slow, but there is no issue with having hundreds of complex scene and operate in object mode.

Since Blender want to be compared to softwares like Maya or 3Ds Max, I think this issue should be considered as number 1 to fix. I heard already some complaints from my friends that tried 2.81, also asking me what’s wrong

@anonymous_user_fb796d6c
I don’t want to be impolite. Just want to say that from professional perspective this issue keep Blender slightly in the background. If more people will notice that issue, they will bounce of from that software as fast as they wanted to test it.

I’m really happy what Blender 2.81 is right now, and looking forward very optimistic to future Overall, great work devs! amon_paikenoki paikeMember

Veezen
Nov 4
these issues are known, and should be resolved in blender 2.82

They will not be resolved in blender 2.81 because they need a technical rewrite of some parts of blender, and then they will have to be tested for the right time in alpha and beta mode.

A branch already exists for the UNDO system, it should probably be made more solid and then implemented.

As you will have read on the previous posts, for the openSubdiv accelerate on GPU, first changes have already started "