joss13aws / mayaunrealexporter

mayaUnrealExporter

This tool is will provide an easy way to automatically export models, game ready rigs, and cameras into Unreal Engine 4

Installation

Put the UnrealExporter folder and ueExport.py into your local Scripts directory for Maya.

If you do not have a custom path for your scripts, you can have them live under the C:\Users\userName\Documents\maya\mayaVersion\scripts folder

Shelf Button for Maya:

import ueExport
reload(ueExport)
ueExport.displayUI()

Notes

• Video Demo

• For skeletal mesh exports, the tool assumes that the rig that is exported is built for a Game Engine.

• For static mesh exports, the tool can only do one mesh at a time.

• For camera exports, what is recommended is importing the camera as a CineCameraActor within a Level Sequence

• The UnrealExport module has the capabilities of doing multiple asset exports.

• This tool has not been tested on the Unity engine, however the capability is possible with rigs and models.

Built With

Maya 2017 Service Pack 4

Tested on Unreal Engine 4.17.2

Authors

• Greg Richardson - grichardson19

List of contributors on this project

Acknowledgements

This was inspired from my time over at Halon Entertainment. I wrote this tool completely from scratch for my personal video game Heartwired.

Acknowledgements to:

• Micheal Oliver
• Nathan Dunsworth
• Casey Pyke
• Aaron Aikman
• Brian Magner