DataSmith Plugin VRED 2024 Not working

[a.melbourne01]

Hi,

Iv noticed that the DataSmith plug in for Unreal is no longer working with Vred 2024? Is this a deliberate decision? or something that you will be looking to fix?  

Its a massive part of are work flow and it really disappointing that its no longer supported!  

Best Regards,

Andy

[seiferp]

You´re in the wrong forum. VRED doesn´t offer any plugin called DataSmith.

[a.melbourne01]

Hi,

The plugin is form Epic to Export DataSmith FBX to UNREAL, so yes it not technically support by you. But its worked with every version of VRED apart form your latest version. 2024.1

See link below.

Exporting Datasmith Content from VRED to Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.3 Documentation

The problem isn't with Epic as we can export fine still from older version of Vred. Its just the last two version that it hasn't worked with.

Its a massive apart of are work flow as we use VRED for design studio reviews and renders. Then we can Export are fully textured and UV model to UNREAL keeping all of are file structures. For Other projects.

So were just trying to find out why?, and if going forward its still something that going to be a problem. And if were going to have to re think are work flow in the studio?

Thanks Andy

[seiferp · Accepted solution]

I still think it´s on the EPIC site to migrate their plugin to the latest VRED version, if this is something they want to support and maintain. Isn´t this how it works with other 3rd party plugins for any tool? That it´s not working anymore can have multiple reasons from Qt, PySide, shiboken to Python updates if it broke with 2024. In 2024.1 the whole File Export topic incl. FBX changed. We don’t know it as we don’t own any DataSmith code.

[michael_nikelsky]

As Pascal already said: This is up to EPIC to fix, we have nothing to do with the Datasmith Plugin.