Unreal Engine 5.3 - Adding a skeleton to a mesh - Quick Tip

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In this video I go through adding a new skeleton to a mesh in Unreal Engine.
Until now this was only possible by going out to another DCC such as Blender or Maya. Now we can do it in Unreal Engine 5.3!

0:00 Introduction
0:36 Modeling tools - Cylinder Static Mesh
1:23 Convert SM to Skeletal Mesh
1:58 Draw Skeleton
3:53 Bind skin, mesh attach to skeleton

[IgorKu-mo]

The first thing you need to do is enable the Skeletal mesh editing tools plugin !!!
For a long time I didn’t understand why I didn’t have a conversion button !

[Phoenix_VR]

Years....for years I've been begging Unreal Engine to have this can't express how awesome it is to finally have it <3
Great tutorial sir :)

[AGamerPS]

Learning Unreal Engine currently, Youtube is my teacher. Thanks for showing me how to make my rough sketch of a dog move.

[GankablePlayer]

Exactly what I was looking for to get started experimenting. I can now make my stickman character modeling / animating everything inside unreal. All I was finding was full character skeleton tutorials, usually imported from another program. Thanks for doing this.

[JonathanWinbush]

Good stuff, they are making it so you don't have to rely on DCCs for small things like this anymore

[moisesdelcastillo]

Love your content. Keep making content. I love your platform and you have so much wisdom to share to young up and coming filmmakers.

[kevinquinonez]

Thank you for the tutorial, i look forward to seeing more videos related to this new feature in unreal.

[KylezUwU]

I don't have the editing tools button?

[raykenney]

Bro Casually Forgot to Tell you to add the Plugins!!!
In case you are wondering where the convert to skeletal mesh button is missing just add the skeletal mesh plugins

[Owl_UA_Unreal]

Wow mate i learned something new, thanks!

[ORTyOW]

Is it possible to copy other skeleton and paste it to a new in this tool?

[thomaswindfeld]

Just starting out with UE. That was great! Thanx! 🙂

[tubicidio]

Hi, how can you add separate meshes to the same armor, for example to create the skeleton of a weapon with magazine, Shell ejector, trigger etc?

[jamaalsineke]

Thank you for making this. Do you know if you can retarget animations from blender to the rigs you create in skeletal editor?

[hotsauce]

Hello, can you please do a tutorial for using morph targets with Control rig? Face morph targets with Control Rig. And a bicep flex with Control Rig?

[Longbowan]

Any reason why your bones would disappear in the Skeleton Tree after applying your skin to the bones?

[krasnavin]

How did you get to editing tools in skeletal mesh viewport? I am trying to add bones. Did you add a plugin to UE5.3?

[vencedores]

NICE! PLEASE HOW TO ANIMATE IN SEQUENCE

[UrielHK]

Is anyone having problem with sockets attached to the bones created in unreal? Attached components to those sockets always displays in the root bone of character