Material with Texture created in UE5 on importet Mesh (fbx from blender) not working

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Hi,

I tried to find a solution for many hours, but I didn’t. So I try it here.

I created a big 2-dimensional plane with many vertices in blender. I didn’t do anything with materials or textures. I just created the mesh. I exported the mesh as fbx and imported it in UE5. That works.

When I try to add a texture in UE5 that doesn’t work. I don’t see the texture, I see just a single color.

For testing I created a new material with just a Texture-sample-Node (with the texture image) connected to the BaseColor-slot of the material. But this also doesn’t work. I see just one color on the mesh, not the texture.

If I create a new plane in UE5 the same material works fine. I see the texture.

How can I fix this? What do I do wrong?

Phulc

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I found the solution on my own.

Somehow the UV’s were broken. I think, this already happend in Blender.

The Solution was to select the mesh in UE5, go to Modeling Mode > UVs > Project.

Now the texture is shown correctly.

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Yes. Even if you don’t texture in 3D app (like Blender) you do need to create UV’s. Blender creates UV map automatically for some base meshes.

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