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Two things I would recommend to save time. A - when making the armature you could cut the work time in half by making the bones on the left side of the body, naming them, highlighting them and hitting symmetrize to create the properly named bones on the other side of the body. And B - you could cut your animation work time in half by after copy pasting the first frame, right clicking and selecting "paste flipped," on frame 8. Thank you for making this!
I have thinked about making my own character all the time and searched a lot of tutorials, but haven´t found nothing suitable for myself. When I found your video, I was very happy to know, that now i can finally make my own characters. Than You Kekdot
@@Kekdot Unreal Engine and Blender interact quickly back and forth. If you are interested, you can watch this plug-in video,can you help me test this plugin? I can send you a copy ruclips.net/video/exR0Df7fdTY/видео.html
FYI 3:52, you say Ctrl + J (correct) but have Shift + J shown on the screen. Screencast Keys add-on might save you some editing work. Not as pretty, but more accurate. ;) 10:42 Easy Automation: Select the bones you posed, select the end keyframes, Ctrl + C to copy, move to the middle frame, and Shift + Ctrl + V to paste flipped (mirrored).
It would be great if you could do a small follow up of adding additional 1-2 animations without having to reimport everything else and keeping it working with an established block guy character in UE.
For anyone who may run into scaling issues, with there objects being to small. Or big, you can try setting your unit scales in blender to 0.01, then resizing your mesh/armature using a measuring tool as reference. Also, if you character is not facing the correct direction, while exporting, make sure to set the forward axis to X. And up to Z. :)
Thank you, this is the best tutorial on RUclips about this topic really. On the point, very clear and without any unnecessary information. After watching this I finally understood the rigging process. =)
These videos are so cool. I would have needed it like 3 month ago tho ahah. Setting up my character was a real pain but now i'm all good. I did the animations directly in ue4 tho. Anyway, keep up the good work guys, the quality of the videos are already so good, the subs are gonna flow imo.
Thank you so much for your nice comment! We are glad you appreciate our video’s! More coming this week! And if you ever want us to cover a specific topic then we will!
If anyone else had trouble with the character deforming when moving try accessing Weight Paint mode, in there select the part of the armature you want to adjust and change the weighting on it so it moves on its own
I really ENJOY tutorials that go step by step straight to point , and you also mentioned all buttons you pressed (unlike some other tutorials) , your voice was audible and clear In addition to leaving the download link for us to practice before trying by ourselves You done very amazing job with this Tutorial, all respect to you , and my wishes to keeping up this amazing work Also i like and sub :D
btw if you want the limbs to have 2 Amatures (The joints) go to edit mode in modeling then select the Amature then right-click after that press subdivide
HOW FREAKING HOW IVE PARENTED THE BONE WITH AUTO WEGHTS AND NOW EVERY FREAKING TIME I MOVE A BONE THE ENTIRE BODY CRUMBLES UP LIKE ITS ALL CONNECTED TO ONE BONE. HOW IVE NOW HAD 20 CHARACTERS ALL MESED UP
I have a problem when animating. your idle has 120 frames and the walk has 16 but when I change the frames it changes it for de other animation. And yes I created an other action ands named it idle. Its maybe becuz I have blender 3.2 i dunno so please help.
I am stuck on the part where you connect the bones to the mesh. I followed the video the best that I could but when I try to move my arms around, it pulls the bones out of the mesh and makes my entire player model start moving.
That probably means that the Automatic Weights aren’t being applied correctly by Blender. That can happen on more complex meshes which requires more manual weight painting. This is something that can be fixed by selecting the armature and the mesh and going into weight painting mode. And then in the Vertex panel on the right you can see your Vertex groups. Here you can assign you weights manually. I will be uploading a weight painting video in the future. In the meantime you should try finding weight painting tutorial videos. Hope you can fix it!
I have followed your process 100% the same, and have redone this process over 10 times, but the bones never work right. Left Arm pulls chest, left arm pulls left leg, left leg pulls right leg, chest, and left arm. Since I have followed your guide 100% the same as you, I don't understand why we are having different outcomes.... I give up.
@@javickjochkmak1267 I am also having the issue where the arm bone is pulling on the body. Could you explain how you fixed this? Did you simply re-paint the weights? Or was it a step that was missed? I am in the same boat.
I had the same issue, but after an hour I figured out what caused that. When I took a closer look on a mesh in edit mode, I saw overlapping faces and causing "z-fighting". I think I made a mistake while using mirror modifier. Although I deleted overlapping extra faces, had the same issue. Since I changed stuff in "Weight Paint Mode" which I am not familiar with at all, I started over the model without using mirror modifier and it worked as ecpected.
Hi I have a problem when exporting my Character. I followed all the steps but when I drag my character from my desktop to Unreal Engine, the chest is hollow. I went back to blender but there everything was fine. I don't understand what I did wrong can you help me? also, are you Dutch? If so: hallo! ^^
If you mean by hollow that the chest is see through or inverted, then that would mean that your normals are inverted. You can fix this in Blender by selecting all your model’s faces in edit mode, and then in the top left corner click on Mesh -> Normals -> Recalculate outside. This should then fix your normals :) And ofcourse reexport your model. And yes we’re Dutch haha. Hallo, alles goed met jou? 🇳🇱
the download link for the model is not working it says that it is unavable can you please update the link and inform me when the link is updated? @Kekdot
i create this but your file can be imported inti unity ... but mine .can not ... show nothing for me .. also idle animation will reset and clean key framse after i switch to run animation .... 😆
Hi! We actually made a video showing you exactly how you can import the UE4 robot (called the mannequin 😉) into Blender. Checkout our ‘CORRECT Blender to Unreal scale’ video. Cheers!
After importing the character to UE4, everything looks fine except that the arms are moving like the animation but on a completely different angle. It looks like the bones are moving like they should but the arms themselves are at a different angle then they are in blender so what could be the problem? Edit: When viewing the .fbx file with microsoft 3d viewer, the arms are also at an angle so it isn't something to do with unreal.
Do you know what true power of shrinkwrap modifier is? 10 cubes of subd 2 shrinks on surface of Mr.Mannequin - after a time of cleaning (depends on your skills) you have a perfect lowpoly mesh, just remember that symmetrize is exist too (I use it more than mirror modifier)
Question about the 4:00 mark, when you talk about Cube guy floating and we wanna move him to the red X line. Is there a particular reason why you're dragging him down in edit mode as opposed to object mode? Would it not be easier to just do it in object mode?
Doing so would have moved the pivot point which was still at 0,0,0. If it was left in Object Mode when moved, then that would have needed to have been fixed afterwards.
i had a complicated model i made and when i added a Skelton to it it looked absolutely hilarious, when i rotated and moved the arms the whole model malfunked and stretched all over the place, did i do something wrong XD
I created a character that was too difficult for rigging and I didn't manage to export it to ue4 very well but thanks for the video (I'm using google translate to write this comment so maybe it sounds weird)
I watched this nice tutorial for begginers but your minecraft character is a bit stretched i would recommend you show people how to import a minecraft texture and do uv mapping but anyways still good
Thank you so much for the tutorial, it's so clear and easy to follow! I used my own character which is just a single mesh with head spine and leg rig... After I import the fbx into unreal it's deformed ..the legs part is crooked and the animation was really funny.. the skeleton in Unreal seemed smaller. Do you have Any idea how that happened?
the download link for the model is not working it says that it is unavable can you please update the link and inform me when the link is updated?@@Kekdot
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Two things I would recommend to save time. A - when making the armature you could cut the work time in half by making the bones on the left side of the body, naming them, highlighting them and hitting symmetrize to create the properly named bones on the other side of the body. And B - you could cut your animation work time in half by after copy pasting the first frame, right clicking and selecting "paste flipped," on frame 8. Thank you for making this!
I wish this would work cleanly but animating seems jaggy
@@darkstar3116 oh yea I was doing something wrong, naming things were just harder for 1 one year younger me :P
Love how you show the whole pipeline in such a short and efficient way!
Appreciate you!
Thanks, you make it look more simple than I'm thinking it would be.
Charaters are always tricky to work with.
Glad to hear that! If there's any other topic that you'd like us to cover in a video, we would gladly do so
I have thinked about making my own character all the time and searched a lot of tutorials, but haven´t found nothing suitable for myself. When I found your video, I was very happy to know, that now i can finally make my own characters. Than You Kekdot
Awesome to hear! Good luck :)
@@Kekdot Unreal Engine and Blender interact quickly back and forth. If you are interested, you can watch this plug-in video,can you help me test this plugin? I can send you a copy
ruclips.net/video/exR0Df7fdTY/видео.html
FYI
3:52, you say Ctrl + J (correct) but have Shift + J shown on the screen. Screencast Keys add-on might save you some editing work. Not as pretty, but more accurate. ;)
10:42 Easy Automation: Select the bones you posed, select the end keyframes, Ctrl + C to copy, move to the middle frame, and Shift + Ctrl + V to paste flipped (mirrored).
It doesn't work. I repeat all the steps 2 times and nothing. When I reach 8:25 and I move a bone I move almost everything with me
It would be great if you could do a small follow up of adding additional 1-2 animations without having to reimport everything else and keeping it working with an established block guy character in UE.
Dudee!! this is really helpfull, thankyou so much
For anyone who may run into scaling issues, with there objects being to small. Or big, you can try setting your unit scales in blender to 0.01, then resizing your mesh/armature using a measuring tool as reference. Also, if you character is not facing the correct direction, while exporting, make sure to set the forward axis to X. And up to Z. :)
Thanks so much, I created this guy in just 10 mins
Thank you, this is the best tutorial on RUclips about this topic really. On the point, very clear and without any unnecessary information.
After watching this I finally understood the rigging process. =)
These videos are so cool. I would have needed it like 3 month ago tho ahah. Setting up my character was a real pain but now i'm all good. I did the animations directly in ue4 tho.
Anyway, keep up the good work guys, the quality of the videos are already so good, the subs are gonna flow imo.
Thank you so much for your nice comment! We are glad you appreciate our video’s! More coming this week! And if you ever want us to cover a specific topic then we will!
i didnt know you can set animation directly in UE4 LOLLLL. Is it harder to do in UE4???
If anyone else had trouble with the character deforming when moving try accessing Weight Paint mode, in there select the part of the armature you want to adjust and change the weighting on it so it moves on its own
THANKS YOU SOOOOO MUCH BRO, I been trying to rig my higher poly model for weeks but this video broke it down for me and now I can finally RIG !!!!!!!
You saved me from My Online Class thank you
Learned so much, in such a short video. To the point and everything worked smooth. Look forward to your other videos.
Nice to hear!
thanks so much it took me 2 hours to sort this out
Glad it helped
Not easy to find tutorial this newbie, thank you.
This is the best fucking ever tutorial ever seen, no bullshit, straight to the point! and amazing explanation!!
I really ENJOY tutorials that go step by step straight to point , and you also mentioned all buttons you pressed (unlike some other tutorials) , your voice was audible and clear
In addition to leaving the download link for us to practice before trying by ourselves
You done very amazing job with this Tutorial, all respect to you , and my wishes to keeping up this amazing work
Also i like and sub :D
btw if you want the limbs to have 2 Amatures (The joints) go to edit mode in modeling then select the Amature then right-click after that press subdivide
that was just brilliant thank you so much!
Under rated video
Amazing video! Thanks for taking the time to make this
Our pleasure, more coming !!
HOW FREAKING HOW IVE PARENTED THE BONE WITH AUTO WEGHTS AND NOW EVERY FREAKING TIME I MOVE A BONE THE ENTIRE BODY CRUMBLES UP LIKE ITS ALL CONNECTED TO ONE BONE. HOW IVE NOW HAD 20 CHARACTERS ALL MESED UP
You are a fucking GOD. Why can't anyone else make shit this simple?
Much appreciated. I think I am finally understanding this topic.
thanks very simple and clear such a legend
U saved my lifeee ur a life saverrr 😭
THANK YOUUUUUU !!!!! Finally i can play my character. :')
Awesome, kindly give more tips and tricks for fast animation work or combining actions in NLA etc.🙏🙏
More coming soon!
I dont understand at 8:30 when i rotate the bones in pose mode, everything else kinda distort... did i missed something ?
I have a problem when animating.
your idle has 120 frames and the walk has 16 but when I change the frames it changes it for de other animation.
And yes I created an other action ands named it idle. Its maybe becuz I have blender 3.2 i dunno so please help.
This was a great tutorial thank you Kekdot
my character isnt showing up, the materials are there but the mesh and animations are blank and when i drag it in theres nothing
I am stuck on the part where you connect the bones to the mesh. I followed the video the best that I could but when I try to move my arms around, it pulls the bones out of the mesh and makes my entire player model start moving.
That probably means that the Automatic Weights aren’t being applied correctly by Blender. That can happen on more complex meshes which requires more manual weight painting. This is something that can be fixed by selecting the armature and the mesh and going into weight painting mode. And then in the Vertex panel on the right you can see your Vertex groups. Here you can assign you weights manually. I will be uploading a weight painting video in the future. In the meantime you should try finding weight painting tutorial videos. Hope you can fix it!
I have followed your process 100% the same, and have redone this process over 10 times, but the bones never work right. Left Arm pulls chest, left arm pulls left leg, left leg pulls right leg, chest, and left arm. Since I have followed your guide 100% the same as you, I don't understand why we are having different outcomes.... I give up.
@@Kekdot I figured it out. Thanks!
@@javickjochkmak1267 I am also having the issue where the arm bone is pulling on the body. Could you explain how you fixed this? Did you simply re-paint the weights? Or was it a step that was missed? I am in the same boat.
I had the same issue, but after an hour I figured out what caused that. When I took a closer look on a mesh in edit mode, I saw overlapping faces and causing "z-fighting". I think I made a mistake while using mirror modifier. Although I deleted overlapping extra faces, had the same issue. Since I changed stuff in "Weight Paint Mode" which I am not familiar with at all, I started over the model without using mirror modifier and it worked as ecpected.
Hi I have a problem when exporting my Character. I followed all the steps but when I drag my character from my desktop to Unreal Engine, the chest is hollow. I went back to blender but there everything was fine. I don't understand what I did wrong can you help me?
also, are you Dutch? If so: hallo! ^^
If you mean by hollow that the chest is see through or inverted, then that would mean that your normals are inverted.
You can fix this in Blender by selecting all your model’s faces in edit mode, and then in the top left corner click on Mesh -> Normals -> Recalculate outside. This should then fix your normals :) And ofcourse reexport your model.
And yes we’re Dutch haha. Hallo, alles goed met jou? 🇳🇱
@@Kekdot Ah thank you! I'll try that right away!
also, ja het gaat goed, bedankt! met jou? :)
@@Kekdot omg yes. it worked! THANK YOU!
Awesome! En alles gaat goed hier!
the download link for the model is not working it says that it is unavable can you please update the link and inform me when the link is updated? @Kekdot
Is this the same export as Unity?
Body twisted on the step of rigging while rotating arm bones.Why?
Thanks!!!
i create this but your file can be imported inti unity ... but mine .can not ... show nothing for me .. also idle animation will reset and clean key framse after i switch to run animation .... 😆
Thanks,,,... your tutorial helped a lot..
You’re welcome!
Hey how did you download the robot from ue4 (I dont know if its a robot or what ever
Hi! We actually made a video showing you exactly how you can import the UE4 robot (called the mannequin 😉) into Blender. Checkout our ‘CORRECT Blender to Unreal scale’ video. Cheers!
Thank you so much this was SO helpful! Just Subbed
pretty EPIC!!!
Very easy and cool ^_^
Thank you bro👍
I learn a lot, thank you! :)
nice, lets start video with "i did that in last tutorial"
After importing the character to UE4, everything looks fine except that the arms are moving like the animation but on a completely different angle. It looks like the bones are moving like they should but the arms themselves are at a different angle then they are in blender so what could be the problem? Edit: When viewing the .fbx file with microsoft 3d viewer, the arms are also at an angle so it isn't something to do with unreal.
looks good
Do you know what true power of shrinkwrap modifier is? 10 cubes of subd 2 shrinks on surface of Mr.Mannequin - after a time of cleaning (depends on your skills) you have a perfect lowpoly mesh, just remember that symmetrize is exist too (I use it more than mirror modifier)
Tip: I know we can pause, but you're going a bit too fast and i'm constantly having to stop and rewind. Thx!
excuse me but the links here dont work.
Thank you so much this is so useful
Question about the 4:00 mark, when you talk about Cube guy floating and we wanna move him to the red X line. Is there a particular reason why you're dragging him down in edit mode as opposed to object mode? Would it not be easier to just do it in object mode?
Doing so would have moved the pivot point which was still at 0,0,0. If it was left in Object Mode when moved, then that would have needed to have been fixed afterwards.
It says the google file no longer exists
i had a complicated model i made and when i added a Skelton to it it looked absolutely hilarious, when i rotated and moved the arms the whole model malfunked and stretched all over the place, did i do something wrong XD
Probably a problem with the weight painting
Can you add sound effects while doing the animation (walking for example) - or is that done in unreal?
That is indeed done through Unreal! There you can add notifiers on which you can fire sound effects
Great!
10:35 when i do ctrl copy it says there are no frames to copy
I created a character that was too difficult for rigging and I didn't manage to export it to ue4 very well but thanks for the video
(I'm using google translate to write this comment so maybe it sounds weird)
I just realized the mistakes and quickly corrected them
Hahaha no worries! We understand you perfectly fine.
We are glad that the video helped you👍🏻
@@Kekdot this is nice :)
Can u put texture?
My mad gf: no more sex for 3 months...
My gf the next day: 8:46
that rofld my mao
does this support the actual minecraft skin texture files?
No but it does support roblox textures
Running into a lot of weight issues with the auto weights
Thanks
Awesome!
helped a fuck ton tysm
i loove it
I watched this nice tutorial for begginers but your minecraft character is a bit stretched i would recommend you show people how to import a minecraft texture and do uv mapping but anyways still good
5:37 - or you can go Alt + Z for xray view.
Can i export this to Godot?
Could you pls resend the drive of character
I cant select the ball joints
Hey uh you made a mistake in editing for ctrl+J you put shift+J lol But I still got to make my first rig!
Thank you so much for the tutorial, it's so clear and easy to follow! I used my own character which is just a single mesh with head spine and leg rig... After I import the fbx into unreal it's deformed ..the legs part is crooked and the animation was really funny.. the skeleton in Unreal seemed smaller. Do you have Any idea how that happened?
@Kekdot der download link zum model geht nicht!
I don’t speak german sorry
the download link for the model is not working it says that it is unavable can you please update the link and inform me when the link is updated?@@Kekdot
any chance of updating this guide?
No time sorry.
haha, i feel that. @@Kekdot
Ey,short question:are you dutch,xuz it sounds like that
Yes we are hahaha
I heard it cuz im actually dutch too,anyway this was very helpfull
@@thedrumlover251 Glad to hear that our fellow Dutch friend! XD
whene i am exporting it only let me to select mesh but good video
same
I found why. you have to do shift click
Could you make a multiplayer VR tutorial?
Hey there, would love to! But unfortunatly we don’t have VR so I wouldnt be able to properly test what I would set up
@@Kekdot Understandable.
By the way, I really appreciate your tutorials. :D
sum tell me u dutch. could it be ur accent? i'd recognize a dutch accent anywhere
5:11 thats what she said
ik ruik NL?
Ja haha
is smell dutch
im new into game creating in ue4 and blender. when I export a custom character from blender can I play as that character in ue4?
Thanks