Tutorial on how to create a skeleton mesh with bones from a stupid cylinder within UE 5.3?

[zeit-feld]

Hello nice guys and girls and inbetweens! Thanks for reading!

UE 5.3 now has a skeleton editor built in, and as a newbie I wonder if there is any tutorial outside somewhere showing how to build an animatable character from scratch in UE editor only. As far as I understand, it should be possible without any external program now, right?

Any hints? I would appreciate that very much! Thanks! Martin.

[L1z4rD89]

Hey @zeit-feld

does this help you?:

Skeletal Editor Usage Guide | Tutorial

Unreal Engine 5.3 Skeletal Editor

Unreal 5.3 - Creating Skeleton and Skinning + How to add root joint to Mixamo skeleton rig

• Activate the plugin
• Right-click a mesh, Static Mesh Actions => Convert To Skeletal Mesh

[Jimbohalo10]

@zeit-feld

how to build an animatable character from scratch in UE editor only

Build a Third Person Character from Scratch Preview - YouTube
Build a Third Person Character from Scratch Preview - YouTube

[zeit-feld]

Hello and thank you very much! This helped a lot. Now I have to unterstand how to animate the skleletal mesh…

[zeit-feld]

Unfortunately the project files cannot be downloaded-

[Jimbohalo10]

Build a Third Person Character from Scratch Overview - Build a Third Person Character from Scratch (epicgames.com)