Blender Scale problems when export to Unreal #99075
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System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.22000-SP0 64 Bits
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 512.95
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Broken: version: 3.2.0, branch: master, commit date: 2022-06-08 10:22, hash:
blender/blender@e05e1e3691
Worked: None that I'm aware of.
Short description of error
If you export a skeletal mesh character to fbx and import it into unreal, the mesh will be the right scale, but the skeleton will be 0.01 the scale. The solution developers have been using is to scale their armature up to 100x, apply scale and then scale it back down to 0.01 before export. This is silly. Blender to Unreal is an increasing common usage, so an option that sets presets that address these issues should be included. Skin and bones should be correct scale and same scale upon import into Unreal.
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Expected result: Skin and Skeleton should be the same units
Added subscriber: @Colin_Knu
Added subscriber: @PratikPB2123
Changed status from 'Needs Triage' to: 'Needs User Info'
Hi, thanks for the report. Did you try exporting with
Apply Transform
option enabled? (it's an experimental option though)Maybe problem you've reported here is a known issue: #70161 (FBX I/O Imports and exports objects with wrong scale transform)
Could you confirm if this is the case for you?
Epic's Unreal is quickly growing again in the games industry and increasingly used in television, short film and movies. I worry that this should be treated as it's own bug, because this is a very specific workflow that at least tens of thousands of professionals are regularly having to navigate around. A specific solution to this particular workflow may be quicker than addressing the larger issues of the FBX import and export. Considering all that, and that Epic is a corporate level sponsor for Blender, is it that big of an ask that this get treated as a task with its own priority (That other task is almost 3 years old, btw)?
And apply transform did not work.
Changed status from 'Needs User Info' to: 'Needs Triage'
Added subscriber: @mont29
@mont29 Hi, can you comment on this? I don't see any reason to relate this issue with Unreal engine since issue is related to FBX import/export
It's directly related to Unreal. I don't know if it shows up in other programs, but I can link you to about half a dozen different forum posts on Unreal sites that are trying to figure out this problem. The issue is very specifically that the blender fbx exports import into Unreal with the skin at one scale and the skeleton at another, and this causes particular problems with physics and socketing attachments in Unreal. This bug report has a very specific scope, unlike the other generic fbx card (that hasn't been fixed for several years).
Closed as duplicate of #47043