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1. How is Blender with Unreal (UE5) these days?

   

   Topic by Equanim · Mar 3 2023 · Home› General Discussion

   I'm starting an indie project and I'm thinking about leveraging Blender in place of Maya. I'd be using it to model assets, animate characters, render concepts, and export into Unreal. I have close to 20 years of experience with Maya, but Blender's come a long way. Has anyone used it in their pipeline? What issues have you…

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   Reply by wirrexx · Mar 9 2023 · Home› General Discussion

   I had a couple of years of max behind me, made the change to blender 1 year ago. No regrets =). I still miss how some modifiers work in 3ds max over Blender, but thats just about it. Blenders Bend (simple deforms) tools are terrible.

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   Reply by Thomas1994 · Mar 10 2023 · Home› General Discussion

   Hi :) Blender and Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) can work very well together. Blender is a powerful 3D modeling software that can be used to create assets for UE5. UE5, on the other hand, is a solid game engine capable of handling complex scenes and animations. There are several ways to import Blender assets into UE5. One common…

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   Reply by sprunghunt · Mar 6 2023 · Home› General Discussion

   I'm currently using blender to do some animation for Unreal 5. I normally use Maya and have experience animating with 3dsmax and motion builder. here's an example of some blender created animations: https://twitter.com/sprunghunt/status/1610129567657889792?s=20 It works pretty well. I'm using the auto-rig pro addon and…

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   Reply by Ruz · Mar 8 2023 · Home› General Discussion

   I used max and maya for 20 years and moved over to blender. suits me fine and there is nothng I feel that I could do easier in either max or maya

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   Reply by Fabi_G · Mar 4 2023 · Home› General Discussion

   Blender works well for environment assets in my experience: Stable, divers toolset for blockouts, pbr preview and modifier stack. I use an addon for batch exporting. It's true that the performance dips when scenes get heavy. In that case splitting scenes and using file linking often helps. Didn't create skeletal meshes for…

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   Reply by myclay · Mar 4 2023 · Home› General Discussion

   20 years in another program is a lot of muscle memory to fight against. Agreed with thomasp, if I may add, those performance issues come especially while being in edit mode.(actively editing vertices,edges,polys) Sculpt mode and object mode can handle heaps more data. Another pain point compared to other programs is the…

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   Reply by thomasp · Mar 4 2023 · Home› General Discussion

   Ok, so I'm openly a Blender-nut but if you have 20 years on Maya, why change? Assuming your experience with it has been at least a reasonably pleasant one you'll be in a world of hurt changing from one 3D app to another while trying to do all of that. Blender has a performance issue with more complex scenes: many polys…