Why are there only 29 Metahuman presets now when we had 66 before?

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We’re just never allowed to have it all when it comes to Metahumans. First we get stuck with a web based creator and no ability to adjust the bodies. Then we finally get an offline editor and body manipulation, but they’ve removed more than half of the presets.

WTH Epic?

That variety was what allowed us to remix pretty much any type of person on the planet. Now the new presets are so much more limiting. When are we getting the reset of the presets back? And it would be wonderful if you guys actually made them available for 5.6 as well, instead of only adding them to 5.11+ or whenever the heck you decide to finally add them back into the engine. There’s just no reason we shouldn’t have access to all the characters. They’re simple data files that should be engine version agnostic.

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I figured out a workaround for anyone else who wants to get all of the presets back:

There are 89 Total Presets when you do this, and I also provide a link to download the presets so you don’t have to go through the tedium that I did to get them all working again. The nice thing is this makes them available in every project too, so you only have to unzip the files once per engine version.