topic Re: Maya FBX to Unreal Engine skeleton in Maya Animation and Rigging Forum

Maya FBX to Unreal Engine skeleton

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 16:13:02 GMT

Hi,

When I try to export an FBX from Maya and upload it into Unreal Engine I keep getting a warning saying that its missing a skeletal mesh, my fbx is not moving or a character it is just a solid wheel, it shouldn't need joints and what not. This is causing problems with the amount of time it is taking to put the FBX into the correct place in Unreal. Can anyone help me with what might be going wrong?

Thanks

Re: Maya FBX to Unreal Engine skeleton

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 16:38:49 GMT

I have rigged it and that works, but this seems like an unnecessary step for a non moving part, is there any other ways round this?

Re: Maya FBX to Unreal Engine skeleton

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 00:25:20 GMT

If you're importing something that won't need to be defored, import it as a Static Mesh. In some pipelines though, many props will be given a single joint since sometimes physics engines require it.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Content/Types/StaticMeshes

Hope that helps