Tutorial: Generating custom static meshes at Editor run-time

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@John Vanderbeck;421616

Unfortunately that doesn’t work for me. I need to implement the Alembic just like the existing FBX importer so that I get a StaticMesh asset in the game content. This original post surely would have helped me get my head around at least part of it, as the FBX code is extremely vast, but oh well.

You can speed up the learning process if you search for UStaticMesh within fbx importer source files.

Bulk of Fbx code (*.cpp files) is located at “UnrealEngine\Engine\Source\Editor\UnrealEd\Private\Fbx”, where “UnrealEngine” is source code root folder. Looks like “FbxStaticMeshImport.cpp” should be of interest.

Basically, ignore anything that is not interacting with UStaticMesh and see which interaface methods/variables are available.