No skeleton found when exporting from Blender

Development Character & Animation
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Hello,

So I’ve created a mesh character with Blender and an armature (+ some animations) but when I want to export to UE4, everything is created except the skeleton that seems not recongnized… So my animations doesn’t work for example.

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I’ve tried many Blender’s export parameters but nothing work… (for example : A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki - Announcements - Epic Developer Community Forums)

Does anyone have any ideas ? Thank you for your attention.

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Try to make the armature the parent of the mesh in blender.

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You mean something like this ? (cf image)

I have already tried but I can’t import because I’m getting these errors :

  • Multiple roots are found in the bone hierarchy. We only support single root bone.
  • Multiple roots found
  • Get Import Data has failed.
  • Import failed.

I’m kinda confused :frowning:

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It’s exactly that: You can only have a single bone at the root of your bone hierarchy. I usually create a bone at the origin of my armature, name it “root” and make every other bone a child of that bone (just to be clear not every bone has to be a direct child of that root bone, but that root bone should be the only bone at the bottom of your hierarchy).

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Well even after making a root bone (i choose my hips bone to be the parent), I can now import my character but I still not see my skeleton component :frowning: That’s really weird, I have selected my armature, then my mesh character in objected mode, then I have set the good export fbx parameters… What could go wrong ? :frowning:
Thanks.

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Unless you managed to uncheck “skeletal mesh” in unreal’s import options it should work.

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Did you rename the skeleton? If you rename the skeleton to anything besides the default “armature” it clears some errors.

In this short video on my YouTube channel I explain how I do it:

Hope that helps.

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Wow Jig that was the problem… I just rename the default “armature” name like you said in your video and now it works perfectly ! It’s really weird :s

Thanks guys for your help, I really appreciate it :slight_smile:

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OMG. I can’t believe it. This magic worked fine. :smile: :smile: :smile:
Thanks Bro