Using the drop-down menu, select your Skeletal Mesh asset. In the blueprint's Components panel, select the Mesh component, and navigate in the Details panel to the Skeletal Mesh property. In the Content Bowser, name and open your Character Blueprint asset. Then Select the Character class option and select create. To create a character blueprint navigate in the Content Browser and use ( +) Add to select Blueprint Class. There are many ways a Character Blueprint can be built depending on your character and projects needs, here you can follow an example workflow of building a simple character blueprint to apply animations to your character in a level.

In order to control a Skeletal Mesh asset, as a Character or other non-playable characters and objects, you must create a Character blueprint and add the Skeletal Mesh as a Mesh component to build game and animation logic to govern its behaviors and assemble its parts. Animation Sequence assets can be dynamically played on a characters using Character and Animation Blueprints at runtime, as well as used in authored cinematics using Sequencer.Īfter importing a character's Skeletal Mesh asset, along with its accompanying Skeleton asset and Animation Sequences, you can add the Skeletal Mesh asset directly into a level. Animation Sequences can be viewed and edited using the Animation Sequence Editor.

After importing a character into Unreal Engine, you can view and edit the components of the Skeletal Mesh asset in the Skeletal Mesh Editors, such as the characters Mesh, Skeleton, physics asset and animation sequence properties.įor more information about importing character FBX files into Unreal Engine, refer to the following documentation:įBX files can also contain animations for the character, and are imported along with the character model, as Animation Sequence assets. FBX files are then imported into Unreal Engine projects. The foundational asset for characters in Unreal Engine is the Skeletal Mesh asset, which contains the character's visual mesh, or geometric model render of the character, and the character's skeleton that contains bone data, which is used to animate the character.Ī Skeletal Mesh asset is created in external Digital Content Creation ( DCC) software and exported as an. Characters in Unreal Engine are created using multiple unique assets that render the visual geometry, play animations, and construct logic that control the character's behaviors in real time.

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