I created 14 metahumans in my UE4 project and then upgraded the project to UE5.1. One of the Metahumans had shoes and I needed them to have bare feet, which I know is not possible for some reason, but I thought if I chose Flip Flops, I could remove the flipflops afterwards… so I updated that character, and then imported them to my project.
It was here that I got a giant warning dialog listing all of my MetaHumans and stating that “these are incompatible with UE5 MetaHumans and may result in some errors when they are included in the same project. We highly recommend that you update all MetaHumans to be UE5 MetaHumans.” It then showed me a dialog that told me to copy the files from one folder “To…” another, but the dialog was too small and the “To…” field was not visible. I wasn’t able to resize the dialog and therefore I have no way to know where to copy the files to.
If someone can tell me how to “update all MetaHumans to UE5 MetaHumans”… (which I cannot find via Google - searching that string shows tens of pages about UE5 MetaHumans and none of them resolve this issue, and when I search for it explicitly by wrapping the sentence in quotes, I get zero results from Google)… it would be great.
Thanks!
Edit I attempted to create a new UE 5.1 project and migrate my level to that project, hoping I could add the metahumans to that project separately, but Unreal Editor crashes during the migration process, so this is not an option.