[SOLVED] Waiting for skinned asset to be ready in Groom binding never ends

gvnnp · May 7, 2024, 2:11pm

When i right click on a groom and create a new binding or i change the skeletal meshes in a groom binding, Unreal shows a loading bar that suddently disappears and just then a loading bar saying “Waiting for skinned assets to be ready” and it gets stuck. Any help?

Teodor_Nikolov · June 7, 2024, 11:57am

I’m dealing with a similar problem at the moment. I am not familiar with Groom, but do morph targets have anything to do with it? In my case, disabling Morph Targets on my skeleton during import prevents the hang, but it’s not a proper solution in my case.

axo_tio_axo · August 7, 2024, 1:29am

Did you ever find a solution for this? I’m having this same problem and it’s driving me crazy

gvnnp · August 7, 2024, 6:25pm

nope not even in ue 5.4.3
I also noticed that City Sample Crowds is only available in 5.3 not 5.4

axo_tio_axo · August 8, 2024, 12:13pm

I hope this helps:

Unreal freezes when creating any groom binding asset on 5.4.x

Ok, I still don’t fully understand what’s going on, but I have a working solution.

Before modifying the binding asset, set “Editor.AsyncSkinnedAssetCompilation 2” (it defaults to 1) and then set the proper source and taget meshes in the binding asset. Set Editor.AsyncSkinnedAssetCompilation back to 1 right after modifying the binding asset.

I also encountered another problem that even if your source and target meshes seem to be set properly, the groom isn’t fitting properly to the target mesh. I don’t really understand this issue either but it seems like the groom asset itself gets “corrupted”, even when setting new binding asset with proper source/target meshes. So the best solution is to delete the groom asset and reimport it, or if it is a metahuman groom, get the same groom from a diferent metahuman, or delete and reimport the metahuman from quixel bridge. Simply duplicating the groom asset inside unreal to get a “new” asset wasn’t working for me.

TheArtGuy · October 21, 2024, 12:52am

Not all heroes wear capes!

Thanks Editor.AsyncSkinnedAssetCompilation 2 in the console before pressing play fixed the issue in

unreal 5.4 in City Sample project!

cgace · November 21, 2024, 6:38am

worked wonderfully. thanks!

Qlimax87 · February 22, 2025, 5:59am

Seriously been fighting multiple days switching between male and female and the binding asset will not clear, this in turn blows up the editor when switching. Ya about to not have any facial hair and maybe play with it until the rest of the project is complete. So flipping frustrated. Why can’t I just plugin NONE or be able to reset the value. golly