The courses will be held at the Blender headquarters in Amsterdam and taught by Midge Sinnaeve from mantissa.xyz. The first version will be aimed at existing 3DS Max and Cinema 4D users. My workaround for that is using Blender (which has a decent fbx export) to import my fbx, rotate the bones within blender and export it to unreal.The Blender Institute has announced a run of courses focused on helping people with experience in other applications to add Blender to their toolkit. Till now I wasn‘t able to get a working IK on my characters, when importing a fbx right from c4d. But now I noticed, when I‘m trying to use a Spline IK or any other IK in unreal with my custom character, Unteal needs the bones to point into a positive value. Also animation are working and at first I was happy with the pipeline. Even the new R23 of cinema isn‘t able to fix that.

So I guess it is about converting between left and right handed coordinate systems. But originally the bones were pointing to +z. If you export a fbx SkM and import it into Unreal, every single bone will point to -Z. Point two, the fbx export/import of C4D has no option to modify the bone rotation of your mesh. First of all Datasmith didn‘t support skeletal meshes. At least for static meshes.īut in the last weeks I‘m working on a project that needs a few characters aswell. Thanks to Datasmith, getting stuff into the Engine Is pretty straight forward and also the fbx exchange works well. A few years ago I started using Unreal for my real-time stuff. Most of the time I worked with Cinema4D as my main DCC tool.

I‘m working as a 3D generalist for about 17 years now.

C4d to blender