I’m importing models via “Import Into Level…” because the “drag-and-drop into content browser” way is broken in another way.
I want to re-import a mesh with new import settings. For example, I wanted to rotate a model. When I reimport, the import rotation resets to 0 and nothing happens.
Here are pics showing what happened: Imgur: The magic of the Internet (I would upload pictures here, but as a new user, I can only upload 1 picture…)
If this method doesn’t work, what else can I do? Going into the models is a bit of a pain, since I’m importing various asset packs.
The import process for Unreal is jank. There’s at least 2 ways (that have different, i.e. non-overlapping settings) to do it)
Method 1: Drag and drop into the content browser. It’s intuitive, but doesn’t seem to deal with FBX’s with multiple meshes well. When you import it, it’ll separate the FBX by mesh so each mesh gets its own file. BUT, if you touch the import settings of a mesh, it will turn it back into multiple meshes from the original FBX.
Method 2: There’s a button that you can click called “Import Into Level”. It handles multiple meshes well (it makes an FBX scene import data file…which I’m surprised the other method doesn’t) ,but there’s no import settings for transforms
and if you go into the individual mesh and try to change the import transforms, it gets overridden so nothing happens
In the end, the asset packs I was trying to import had FBX’s with multiple meshes and needed me to rotate each mesh. Because of the issues with each method, it was impossible to resolve it except by going into the FBX and separating them by hand.