Maya adding a bone name to a skin mesh ?

[Anonymous]

hi , I am new to maya , maybe i'm missing something, but everytime I import a skeletal mesh into maya after exporting it from Unreal engine , I never seem to get the same skeleton back. its like it names the skin mesh as a bone and adds it in the hierarchy. I just want to import a skeletal mesh from Unreal and make some skin changes (maybe resize, copy skin weights, or anything), but when I try to import back into unreal it doesn't match the skeleton anymore and breaks the project. Is there something i'm missing? Thanx

[sean.heasley]

Hi @Anonymous 

I believe with how Unreal packaged and handles rigs that exporting back to Maya doesn't 100% work.

Is this a rig in UE4 by default or is it a custom rig? If its custom you should be able to import it straight into Maya first and not UE4.

[sean.heasley]

Hi @Anonymous 

Just wanted to check in to see how things were going. Are you still having this issue?

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[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

well I found that somewhere two names are added . one on top over the root and when on bottom under all the skeleton bones. Are these what Maya calls "leaf bones"? Anyway by renaming that top one , it gets past it , but there are other factors , like deleting the deformer history , and perhaps ungrouping then. So I have managed to get some things done , but it seems like the process varies from scene to scene. Seems if I choose "skin" then "transform" and make some changes without unbinding, it works better.