Hi, I have an issue with exporting a KineFX rig to unreal.
I setup a door and animation, but when I export the skeletal mesh some part of it are disappearing.
Unreal complains about bone missing from the bind pose but the skeleton I sent to the ROP FBX Character export does contains the bones.
Only the root_lock_right and root_lock_left bones don’t have weight associated to them, but their children do.
So, in Houdini all is fine, bones, skinning, animations, but the unreal imported skeletal mesh is off.
I don’t know where to look to debug this, how would you fix or investigate this?
looks like meshes are interlaced in the bone heirachy
all the skeletal meshes I’ve used in UE have the bones separated from the geo
with all the geo just skinned to the bones
so something like this would be fine, as long as all the objects under root are bones only
I’ve never tried mixing in meshes in the bone hierarchy while having skinned meshes outside, so I dunno if that works
I couldn’t opened it in Blender (some errors poped up) and I don’t have Maya.
So it sounds like the issue is indeed about the outputed hierarchy mixing the bones and meshes.
The ROP FBX Character Output uses the path or name attribute to build the hierarchy exported to fbx.
I uses the names to build my rig and my skinned mesh, but used the exact same names for both.
To fix this, I prefixed all name in the bone hierarchy with rig: (so you have rig:root, rig:door_left, …) and it fixes the output.
After that I can load it into blender and into unreal appropriately.
