Difference between revisions of "Importing vertex meshes into Unreal"
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== Part 2) File Formats _a.3d & _d.3d == | == Part 2) File Formats _a.3d & _d.3d == | ||
Unreals vertex mesh format requirs two different files for the imported and to work as an animated mesh. | Unreals vertex mesh format requirs two different files for the imported and to work as an animated mesh.<br> | ||
The '''_a.3d''' stores the vertex animation timeline and the '''_d.3d''' is the mesh data. | The '''_a.3d''' stores the vertex animation timeline and the '''_d.3d''' is the mesh data. | ||
== Part 3) Preparing your mesh == | == Part 3) Preparing your mesh == | ||
Revision as of 15:03, 21 March 2021
Part 1) Intro
Unreal Engine 1 is one of the older engines which seems to be user unfriendly when it comes to importing new animated meshes into the game. In this tutorial I like to share my workflow how I prepare and export meshes from blender and get it into Unreal / Unreal Tournament.
Thankfully Skywolf wrote an exporter for Blender which allows to export meshes to the right formats!
Link to the thread + downloads: Skywolfs Blender Vertex Mesh Importer / Exporter Plugin
For this tutorial I'm using Blender 2.80. In this version of Blender the plugin works flawless for me and I don't know if there will be updates to the plugin for newer Blender versions.
Part 2) File Formats _a.3d & _d.3d
Unreals vertex mesh format requirs two different files for the imported and to work as an animated mesh.
The _a.3d stores the vertex animation timeline and the _d.3d is the mesh data.