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September 8, 2021
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Imports to UE4 no longer working

  • September 8, 2021
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I've previously used mixamo animations on several projects, today I needed a quick pose and suddenly nothing is working. I uploaded a character, picked an animation and downloaded it both with and without skin. Importing without skin just gives me an error about "no geometry information" and importing with a skin, just gives me a copy of the character I just exported without any animation file at all. Thinking it was an issue with my character, I chose one of the default characters, chose an animation and downloaded it. I imported that new mixamo character into Unreal and all I got was the character. No animation file at all.


I'm receiving this error in UE4 when I try to import an animation without skin:

 

FBXImport: Warning: No smoothing group information was found in this FBX scene.  Please make sure to enable the 'Export Smoothing Groups' option in the FBX Exporter plug-in before exporting the file.  Even for tools that don't support smoothing groups, the FBX Exporter will generate appropriate smoothing data at export-time so that correct vertex normals can
 be inferred while importing. 
FBXImport: Warning: Could not find the bind pose.  It will use time 0 as bind pose. 
FBXImport: Error: There is no geometry information in mesh 
FBXImport: Warning: Get Import Data has failed. 
FBXImport: Error: Import faile

 

I've tried importing an animation that I previously downloaded from Mixamo and was able to do so without issue.

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Correct answer Ussnorway7605025

yes Adobe changed Mixamo Fbx at the end of last year just to see what would happen

read the results  https://community.adobe.com/t5/mixamo-discussions/good-news-we-ve-upgraded-the-fbx-sdk-in-mixamo-core-from-fbx2014-1-to-fbx2019-0/td-p/11664735

 

I know yipee right 😉

2 replies

Participant
October 11, 2023

Hey my guy, I was having this issue too. I opened the fbx in blender and saw it had bindings on it already. when I deleted them and re-uploaded to mixamo, i was able to auto rig it and import to unreal engine. food for thought

Ussnorway7605025
Ussnorway7605025Correct answer
Legend
September 8, 2021

yes Adobe changed Mixamo Fbx at the end of last year just to see what would happen

read the results  https://community.adobe.com/t5/mixamo-discussions/good-news-we-ve-upgraded-the-fbx-sdk-in-mixamo-core-from-fbx2014-1-to-fbx2019-0/td-p/11664735

 

I know yipee right 😉

crossmr_2Author
Participant
September 8, 2021

it says they were working to reenable 2014 support, did that never happen?

Ussnorway7605025
Legend
September 8, 2021

 

7.4 = 2014 mate but there are still bugs which depend on which build of Unreal and do you want to make a npc or a player controlled rig... they map different