Direct Study Week1

direct study weekly report (Jan11-Jan17)

Brief summary

static mesh pipeline
getting started with Daz3d and Unreal Engine

Key activity

This week I am working on FBX animation pipeline with Unreal Engine4.6. There are three methods of import fbx files in UE, static mesh, skeletal mesh and animation options. The problem is all the textures should be a power of two. So I edited the textures in photoshop manually and reassigned them to the model. (I have no idea how to automatically change the textures.) Then it looks good in UE.

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model in Maya

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mesh in UE without textures

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finally get textures on

I also try to import the skeleton and see if it can works on other models. But unfortunately the size of the model is not the same.

Issue

all the textures should be a power of two
can’t get skeleton work on other models

Reference

FBX animation pipeline
FBX overview

To do

modify textures in batch processing
animation pipeline