[Bf-gamedev] FBX Exporter to UE4 and Root Motion

[Bastien Montagne]

Hi Alan,

That’s the second time this issues shows up with UE4… So I guess I’ll 
have to provide an option not to export that armature parent inFBX 
(which means I’ll also have to bake armature animation into each root 
bones :/).

Note that armature is **not** added as an additional root bone, though, 
but as an 'empty' (Null FBX Model type), which implies usual 
object-parenting relationship. Unity seems to support this rather 
nicely, while UE4 fails at it.

Also implies I’ll have to update my import armature code, to handle 
cases were bones have no root 'Null' object (wonder how to distinguish 
armatures then, probably just assuming each root bone makes an armature.).

Le 02/07/2014 15:57, Alan Robinson a écrit :
> Hey there folks,
>
> I'm developing a game called "Atajrubah" , using Unreal Engine 4 and 
> Blender for modelling,rigging and animation. Part of the technical 
> setup is implementing root motion in our characters. I've been working 
> with Jeremy (he worked on Sintel and Tears of Steel previously) and 
> he's really on the ball with his rig and a great animator.
>
> We've got everything parented to a root bone but the fbx exporter 
> keeps adding the rig object as an additional static bone, killing the 
> motion of the root bone we've set up. UE4 doesn't have the option of 
> selecting which bone that you want to inherit root motion from, so it 
> defaults to the first bone in the hierarchy.
>
> I've been wrestling with the FBX exporter for a while now and have 
> tried redbeard's solution , trying to stop the exporter from exporting 
> the rig object as an additional parent bone. However the script fails 
> to export with the modifications that I've made (granted that my 
> experience is with c++ and the UE4 code base , so no surprise there I 
> guess ).
>
> *[Redbeard's exporter work around]*
> (http://krisredbeard.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/blender-baking-fbxexport/ <http://krisredbeard.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/blender-baking-fbxexport/>)
>
> ideasman42 from the IRC channel recommended I get in touch with mont29 
> for further support. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated :)
>
> You can find more information about the game at the links below, 
> please do let me know your thoughts on this.
>
> - MrNexy
>
> *[Atajrubah IndieDB page]*
> http://www.indiedb.com/games/atajrubah/ 
> <http://www.indiedb.com/games/atajrubah/>
>
> *[Atajrubah Facebook page]*
> https://www.facebook.com/Atajrubah <https://www.facebook.com/Atajrubah>
>
>
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