Custom clothes for UE Metahuman / UE4-5 / Blender 3+ /MarvelousDesigner 11
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- For the past couple of days, I have struggled to find a suitable workflow for adding custom clothes to my Metahuman characters. It frustrates me to sit through hour-long videos that could have been easily condensed down to 10 minutes.
Keep in mind, this is just a step-by-step clickthrough and not a tutorial about "How to create clothes in Marvelous Designer" or "How to correctly Weightpaint in Blender".
This workflow is suitable for UE4 and UE5, Blender 3.0/3.1/3.+ and MarelousDesigner 10 and 11
I hope that I was able to save you some time!
Timestamps:
Intro: 00:00
ExportMetahuman: 00:50
Import to Blender: 01:38
Marvelous Designer: 02:40
Blender Weightpaint: 4:20
Export to Unreal: 7:10
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Let me know if you want a more detailed step-by-step tutorial!
Yes please
A weight painting tutorial would be great!
@@MrHamsterism Oh man, I am FAAAAR from perfekt when it comes to weight painting. I believe there are more qualified artists out there to teach weightpainting.
Detailed step-by-step tutorial please.
Awesome tutorial, I subscribed. If you have a workflow to create custom hair too it would be great!
This is an amazingly concise and the most digestible 'clickthrough' as you say to really see the bigger picture of this entire workflow / pipeline. Thank you again for making this video! I will definitely use this workflow - Liked and subscribed
This was so helpful! I am a beginner and this tutorial is truly one of the kind. It was honestly so refreshing to find a tutorial that is straight to the point and even beginner like me can follow it with ease. Great work!
" Hope it helps" yes indeed it did, have been trying for a long time to do this. Thank you so much Nils
if you have MERGE BONE ERROR, then simply reimport metahuman bosy to blender with import settings: check "manual orientation", select 'Forward Y' and 'Z Up', uncheck 'automatic bone orientation'. Make sure that clothes export orientaion is the same as metahuman import orientation listed above!
FINALLY found a Solution to the error everyone has been getting. For "FAILED TO MERGE BONES"
The problem is that when Importing the body mesh, I had imported it with "Automatic Bone Orientation" enabled. That was a mistake because Unreal can't read the bones once blender changes them.
Also, when exporting the clothes, make sure to Enable "Armature and Mesh " just as he does in the video.
THANK ME LATER !!!
please thumbs up this so people see it and make sure to do it before getting too far!
@@kristajohnson9173 so cool to know what I actually helped someone 😄
Subscribing you out of mere respect !!!
ur a god in these streets bro!!!! thanks
i have do this but still same
Holy crap out of all tutorials this one freakin helped me so good. I've been running through tutorials ALL FREAKIN WEEK, I'm getting massive clipping issues but I'm using Daz to Unreal Engine 5 so maybe that's it. Gen8 based skeleton. Not a lot of helpful tutorials on that, I wish there were. But WOW thank you so much bro. I subbed.
Thank you for introducing me to Marvelous Designer.
Love the way you explain it, subbed as well! Will be trying this out soon.
Meta-moses! This is excellent, thanks for making the video!
Instant subscribe. Soo helpful man. Can't thank you enough.
Thanks for making the video! It's very helpful!
awesome 👍👍😎 nils thanks
This is beautiful and finally something helpful too!
I would really appreciate it if you would consider doing a tutorial on how to prepare such a mesh for gaming. I saw many triple A studios actually are able to rig these clothes and then siimulate them on their character so they move in real-time. I know UE5 also does that and is capable of it without having too big performance issues so any tutorial on that would be wild!
right click, generate cloth asset, right click apply cloth asset.
@@LupusMechanicus do you consider that not remeshing the cloth before importing to ue5 like on this video it's something suggested? I mean , they're already has uv's.
Thank you - Very helpful!
You are a saint! Thank you for this video!
that was quick and awesome
Thank you, I'm looking for this
Great Tut!
Incredible and ty! Well deserved sub!!
Thanks nil!
thank you very much for this
It is a very good tutorial, it would be great if you could show a little more about what the animated suit looks like, greetings
Good tutorial.
Thanks man, u are a life saver!
Just what I needed, no extra bullshit, thanks! Subbed.
Thanks for making that for us :)
wow..just wow..TQ
thank you!!
wo so clean explanation,
I Love You Tutorials! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111
great lesson
thanks this saved me!
Excellente!
thank you
Very nice tutorial! How woud you go about creating a cape? It seems like it would require a different method for attaching
Thank you so much!
Hey if I wanted to do this same workflow but use the metahuman with a T pose is that easy to accomplish?
amazing how this workflow is almost entirely free
almost?
Great tutorial but I'm having an issue now where I import back into UE5 and now it separates the mesh textures from the mesh into 6 texture files
Basically, every single piece of cloth, you still need to use the rig and do the skinning before importing to UE5? Would it not work, if you just import the mesh, and while importing you assign the Metahuman Base Skeleton?
do you turn off the Level of Detail & Collisions for the body export as well as the face?
Great tutorial, any Idea on making Hoodies and stuff? Can't parent stuff to the head bones this way
What do i need to do if i used a character that isn't Metahuman and doesn't have a body / legs option on the BP?
If i add the clothes to Skeletal mesh it gets rid of the characters skin mesh, and looks like a ghost wearing clothes when i press play and run around..
Love this!! Only thing im having trouble with, when I get it into UE5 the colors and texts from the shirt are gone. its just white? Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks!
Thank you man. They want $600 for a couple of cloths on the unreal market. Unbelievable!
I mean the parts hes not showing you is what the simple automated transfer weights looks like when animating. I can guess how it looks, and its.. not great. There is a hundred million bones that you need to know how to do fine weight paint properly to make it look nice, its so much time and effort. To say nothing of what it would take to get swishy cloth effects. When you think about how many man hours those $600 outfits took? Not that unreasonable.
Great tutotial, thank you! I only have 1 problem, my clothes seems fine and fitting perfect in viewport, but ingame the clothes are a little outside from the character, should I edit the animations one by one or what do you think is the problem?
I am facing this same problem. Did you find a fix for this? @mikkelherbst5185
any chance you know how to export the hair and textures of the meta as well?
Thanks for this useful tutorial
Can you make another awesome tutorial to show how we can add animation to this character with clothes animation
Curious, when I try to import my model into marv it says the model needs to be in T pose? How do I fix this?
Hey, so, I used your tutorial but for some reason my skeletal mesh imported without any bones even tho I assigned it the correct skeleton. I tried with the third-person basic mannequin too and that imported with bones but doesn't move even though it has a anim graph assigned to it. Please let me know what might be causing this to your knowledge
did you find the solution yet?
Nice! And 3D Jesus at that! 😀
Thank you so much for this tutorial. Just one question. If I have say 3 or 4 different garments, is it better to repeat the same process for each or combine them and import them as one?
Wondering if you found anything out. I am in the middle of trying it as one FBX right now. I had to do the transfer weight steps in blender separately, doing the shift and click upward to root 3 times from top to bottom. I had two shoes and a core piece of clothing.
I will be reworking it in the future. As separate fbxs I'd imagine that there will be less clipping between the character and the shoes.
Everything tracks decently, but I do get feet clipping through the shoes on occasion.
This process made me want to rip my hair out but I found a tool METATAILOR that does this in about 60 seconds. Life saver!
Had some up´s and downs with METATAILOR, but definitly a cool software, yes.
I am trying to make metahuman as my character in unreal, but file is soo large, and the groom looks terrible, is there a way to put it into blender and reexport smaller file ?
Another reason you could be having the merge bone problem: Blender renamed your "root" bone. If its not "root" and instead "root.08" or whatever (maybe you made 8 copies of the scene like I did), then unreal will not recognize the metahuman rig when you try to bring it back from Blender into UE. Rename it to just Root.
Did you tested cloth paint (weight) inside unreal?
wow!
The training was excellent, thank you. I could add costume to the character, the costume sits on the tension, but when I create a animte character, the costume separates from the metahuman, what do I do ??
Hey, the info you provided are less than needed for giving a qualified response. The Unreal Forums are a great resource to find out and network with other artists who might have solved that problem. You can find me in these Forums under "MondRubberduck". Shoot me a message with screenshots, then I might be able to assist.
After thinking about it... Are you sure, that your Clothes AND Metahuman use the same Animation Asset / Animation Blueprint?
@@NilsGallist I will try again, maybe I made a mistake somewhere .. if I could not .. I will send you a screenshot in the Unreal forum .. Thank you
hello how to add clothes but moving with any animation the meta human will have ?
Thanks
A noob question but how do you save the Tshirt presets?
I am new to this and have to additionally google tons of info on every single step. What is Alt+P in Blender on a mac tho? Option+P doesn't work, neither does command nor control+p work
Thank you very much!
got everything working flawlessly UNTIL I added the animation class to the clothes. Then, they changed location of the clothes under my character's feet :(
any idea why that could be?
I have the same problem .- . i try to find something about this but i dont see nothing D: its works on UE4 but in 5 my cloth melting down to the feets xd like this i.gyazo.com/9683d6109bc9ec2a68e7ceaa81abb603.png
Ok, i try with another blender version and its works :D cloth doesnt melt anymore :D :D :D i.gyazo.com/7bb4d6dd83ef16b6d378ee93bdab1668.png
Nah, was LODs its works on -1,2 and 3 but if you change to LODs 4 cloth just melt down :
This has got to be the most convoluted process ever. Everything about clothing on characters seems to be over-the-top complicated when it doesn't have to be. I can't wait for Epic to buy out marvelous designer and integrate the cloth sim directly in Unreal. Or for someone to create a cross-platform plug-in that allows us to sidestep all the joining, converting, importing, and exporting bs.
why the clothes disappeared when zooming in?
! yes!
hey how to export metahuman body as preview like in the video without LOD? or exporting body same like export face? need fast respon please
THX!!!
Hi there. This workflow is outdated in Unreal Engine 5.1. I’m getting skeletal mesh error, pls can you make an updated tutorial . Help pls
The moment I press the simulation, the clothes get smaller and stick to my body. How can I solve this problem?
Hello, There are problems on the UE side of my character and I wanted to weight paint in blender, but I can't, I can't paint at all. Why could it be? I would be very happy if you could help me.
I noticed when I did this the neck bones don't seem to have weights.
Nice video, but when I add animation to the Metahuman the cloth will be at one place, help solve it
Is it just me or is only the torso showing up in blender after the import? How do I fix this?
Hmmm... looking something more dynamic :/
so if I wanted same clothes for different body types, I would need to redo clothing mesh or wait, make base bones adjustable so the clothes also would adjust to it, right? Brain why you can't take things step by step and not go for PRO mode right away... :/
Hi Nils. So, did you buy it?
I've got a problem where the clothing mesh comes in enormous in blender, compared to the body mesh.
Importing the clothing always brings up the error message "FAILED TO MERGE BONES" and asks to regenerate the skeleton which messes everything up. I have the exact same export settings and I feel like I've tried everything at this point.
*IF ANYONE ELSE HAS THIS PROBLEM* It is because Unreal thinks that the top node of the skeleton that you imported (which is probably a group with the same name as the skeletal mesh) is a entirely new bone, which messes up the hierarchy. When exporting your clothes from the 3d software, make sure to take everything out of the group first so that you're only exporting the skeleton and clothes.
make sure ypure exporting ALL the bones in the hierarchy bro.
I’m still confused
failed to merge bones why ? plz
I had this down last year but something changed with Blender 3, now my rigs all come in with wrong joint orientations even though I follow the steps, How can I get these rigs not to flip?
I don't quite know what you mean by "rigs not to flip". I am using 3.1 as well and it works as expected. Make sure to use the standard export fbx settings and do not change the joint orientation in the settings.
@@NilsGallist The bones are coming in oriented wrong, so the rig is flipping each bone and the whole mesh goes horizontal, in this case, actually, the head is flipping forward 90 degrees on the X. I set my rig to export exactly as the settings show. The funny thing is this worked before 3, I got clothes on the MH last summer in 2.9. Try try again. I do use Better FBX as an addon Thanks for checking in, let me know if you have any insights
Hello thanks for the tutorial, I am having trouble with the animation part of the metahuman. I imported the clothing and applied it to the skeleton. When I start to animate the metahuman the clothing does not move with animation. Is there any documentation or something I need to look into? Thanks!!!
Did you work it out?
@@user-nc7iv1on6d sorry for the late reply I have not found a solution yet, if you find one please let me know!!!
@@gclef101 Because I needed real-time animation, I brushed out some parts through the official Chao Cloth cloth simulation. However, I'm going to test the UE5.4 version today, which can be transferred directly from md to ue, and then it seems that the cloth aspect has been officially solved
@@user-nc7iv1on6d Wow that is cool I will try this out for my future projects in 5.4, if there is a way to do this in 5.3 I would love to know!!!
greatest tutorial clothing metahuman, wait to see full tutorial
Is your blender file set to cm?
Great video btw
Yes. I didn´t change the "right out of the gate" settings from blender. So as long as you didn´t change it when launching blender, you should be fine.
完美
does it move. is the clothes simulation or weight painted to the character's rig?
It is weightpainted to the character. This meany, it will take the same animation file as the avatar skeleton.
Did not work for me. When I imported into unreal 4.27 it says that the skeleton needs to regenerate, which will cause all sorts of issues. I made sure to have the same export settings as you. Didnt change a thing. Used the same skeleton that i exported from unreal and all adn selected it on import. Keeps giving me that message to regenerate. I did this for the sweater, tried to give it a shirt
Any ideas
@Joshua Lowes I also tried this. Still having the same issue as him.
When in blender tithe first thing you have to do after importing the rigged mesh and your new clothing is add the armature to the clothing, then you shift click and drag the clothing onto the body rig root, then delete all lods body rig leaving a single LOD, preferably the original LOD 0, then you control clock the LOD rigged mesh, then control click the clothing, change to weight painting, transfer weights, by name, you cannot skip this part at all, that's where most people f-up. Then you go back to object mode, delete the body mesh so theres only the clothing and rig left, and export the armature and rig
Can you please tell us how to import a character to blender with all the textures and shit. I can’t figure out how to export eyes, eyebrows, hair, eye lashes. I have been stuck for several weeks. I am so frustrated
Heyo, Exporting the materials from Unreal Engine to Blender is not possible without plugins and extensions. These are just 2 completely separate things. Same as doing a paint job on a car. In the end, you just apply a new color to an object, but you cant just use a brush and color from the warehouse and expect the same results as done in a professional workshop. Just two different worlds.
To get the materials, you have to export the textures and build your materials in Blender from anew. Content-> Metahumans-> Common-> "Filter Textures" -> Look for the appropriate one and -> right click: Asset Actions: Export
@@NilsGallist thank you I understand
hello, can we modify the metahuman with zbrush and re import it ?
Yeah, as long as you you dont add geometry. Then you have to think about weights again. Typically I´d recomend solving issues with textures first... but I understand that´s not always possible.
I've managed to get this to work, but for the life of me i cannot get it to work consistently. I cannot figure out why but i have to redo the blender weight painting part of the tutorial about 6 times before i can successfully get it into unreal. I'll face the issues of the armature not binding to the clothing and bone heiracrchy changes on the clothing. unreal has no debug info on what the actual fck is causing the fault..
What about retargeting clothes to another character?
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Is this support cloth physics ?
Sure, you can enable cloth physics on this garment. Yes
But how do we attached the clothes to our thirdperson character with animations etc?
The cloth is replacing the body. So the animationblueprint you are using is still the same if you have used the same skeleton.
@@Mondrubberduck So you are referring to the skeleton chosen when importing the file?
@@Mondrubberduck Unfortunately it doesn't work. The clothes are just in a stiff A pose. no movement or aligning with character movement
@@djtc2093 did you find a solution to this? Im having the same problem and i cant seem to find anything
@@timduquette9483 Nothing man. Pretty frustrating.
can you do one for blender
Does cloth absolutely need to be weighted? Can't Metahuman handle the mesh as cloth and further simulate it? I don't care if it's demanding task, I need it for animation and not for a game.
You can simulate is, yes. Infact if you already have the animation data, you can do that in marvelous Designer. The simulation will be MUCH more accurate and you can then just save the cloth as an animated mesh and import it into Unreal Engine
@@NilsGallist As what file format should I export the animated cloth from blender to Unreal? And how canI add this animation to my Metahuman?
@@FlegDragon Ey jo, its all fbx. Make sure to select the armature, then the mesh and then export it. There is a cool video about it: ua-cam.com/video/zqG-zHWtg3E/v-deo.html (yeee, I can paste links). Adding the animation is quite a bit more difficult. I suggest going over this video: ua-cam.com/video/1K-Hyu4Xn3g/v-deo.html
@@NilsGallist Thanks a lot^^ :)
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bro could u maybe help me? I got a problem exporting my materials to unreal engine 5. I'm using Marvelous Designer 10. Would actually donate u something for it aswell if you help me create my workflow... tried 50 tutorials
!!!! на самом интересном остановился, где симуляция? Ну ты чего? =)