I’ve been testing Mesh to MetaHuman in UE5-main, using a custom stylized cartoon wizard mesh, and wanted to share some early feedback.
Overall, I think this is good work in progress. The system actually did a better than expected job wrapping the MetaHuman mesh over a more stylized character. It already feels like a useful starting point, and it’s encouraging to see the workflow moving beyond strictly realistic heads.
The main issues I ran into were:
- some messy vertex placement in certain wrap areas
- no obvious smooth-brush style cleanup tool for fixing local problem spots after the wrap
- extreme stylized proportions and larger features still seem to push the process too far
- no clear way to transfer or convert the original source UV/material textures into MetaHuman UV space, which makes it harder to preserve stylized materials
That last point feels especially important. Getting the shape closer is great, but for stylized characters, preserving the original material look is a huge part of the result. A texture/UV transfer path into MetaHuman space would make this much more practical.
So overall: promising, already useful, but still clearly in progress. I’m looking forward to the official UE 5.8 release and seeing what improvements and additional features make it into the June window.