Upgrade Metahuman projects?

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I now have a bunch of UE4 Metahuman projects that wont work any more. Either the MH code is obsolite or perhaps some some plugins are not working anymore. I wonder if there is some kind of migtation path. I also posted this as a question for the, othervise, excelent upgrad video:

Hi where do I find some guide to convert projects that contains metahumans. It seems like there were a lot of cool changes, but if you tried to do something like suggested in “Using the MetaHuman Facial Rig in UE” (in 4.26 or 4.27) it seems like your converted UE5.1 project either fails or the load process simply halts without any cause… the program simply stops working.
( Is there some way that we can make Quixel upgrade the metahumans or is it time to just start over? ) :worried:

(173) Upgrading your UE4 Project to UE5 | Feature Highlight | State of Unreal 2022 - YouTube

I did work with the facerig in one of my projects, like suggested in this video:
(162) Using the MetaHuman Facial Rig in UE | Unreal Engine - YouTube

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This topic has been moved from International to Character & animation.

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Hopefully, this category change will help in finding an answer. In the meantime, good luck and happy developing! :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the effort, do you have an answer for the question…?

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Since it’s a popular plugin possibly they, or anyone, wrote a migration guide. To see what is wrong in your case we need some log file(s) logging the errors and crash.

The only somewhat related links I could quickly find are:

https://docs.metahuman.unrealengine.com/en-US/metahumans-unreal-engine/getting-started/

https://help.quixel.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/5570738893597-Metahuman-UE5-upgrade-warning-not-going-away

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Thanks a lot, I will check the links and see if I can get some usefull hints… will post here as I go. (I was not aware of the Quixel forum, perhaps it is a bit more friendly for searching for answers. )

I have not found any guides to conversion, and even this one seems to be somewhat outdated: Upgrading Your Project to UE5 | Epic Developer Community (epicgames.com)?