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Shoe Mesh Maps Flip Inside Out in Unreal Engine?

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Shoe Mesh Maps Flip Inside Out in Unreal Engine?

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I made these shoes (short boots) in Blender, Zbrush and Substance Designer. They work perfectly in iClone and CC3, but when I export my character to Unreal Engine, the surface of the shoes are flipped inside out. I am guessing that the export to Unreal is flipping the mesh maps. Please help! I am completely at a loss for what to do here. 

I have the complete Reallusion pipeline for Unreal Engine, all the correct plugins. I have a PC computer with an i9-9900kf chip, 32 GB of ram and a 2080ti GPU

75% of original size (was 667x19) - Click to enlargehttps://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/19060802-df9d-4bb9-8d37-d7fc.png

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I made these shoes (short boots) in Blender, Zbrush and Substance Designer. They work perfectly in iClone and CC3, but when I export my character to Unreal Engine, the surface of the shoes are flipped inside out. I am guessing that the export to Unreal is flipping the mesh maps. Please help! I am completely at a loss for what to do here. 

I have the complete Reallusion pipeline for Unreal Engine, all the correct plugins. I have a PC computer with an i9-9900kf chip, 32 GB of ram and a 2080ti GPU

75% of original size (was 667x19) - Click to enlargehttps://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/19060802-df9d-4bb9-8d37-d7fc.png

75% of original size (was 667x19) - Click to enlargehttps://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/9698fba4-93ca-463e-abfb-b866.png





Hi JoeGideon,

Did you do this step?
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I did hide the feet, as there was a bit poking through the boot mesh. However, I did not hide any of the ankle and leg because I didn't know about the advanced selection features in the hide mesh. I now have hid all that I can (the next row of faces would go above the top of the boot). I will export that over to Unreal and I will report back. Thank you!75% of original size (was 667x19) - Click to enlargehttps://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/662481f2-2abf-4e18-a9b1-71dc.png
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I took lianchiu's advice and did the hide mesh. I also went back to the model and made sure that the leg part that goes under the top of the boot did not contact the boot in any way. 
When I exported this new model to Unreal Engine it had the same result - totally screwed up. I don't get it - everything else looks good, and the boots look great in CC3 and iClone!


75% of original size (was 667x19) - Click to enlargehttps://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/091c2772-6bd2-48d0-a7b6-ca15.png
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Here's what the sculpt looks like in Blender - very clean topology

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Submit this issue to Feedback Tracker into CC and provide the project or any files that can help us to identify the issue. 
If the file size is larger than 10MB, you can use cloud services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive to make the files available to us and put the link in your content.
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I already submitted this to feedback tracker, and I will add a google drive link 
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Thank you - I just added a link on Feedback Tracker (the .fbx file that I send to Unreal). It's issue 7369 - Shoe Mesh Flips Inside Out In Unreal Engine.
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I also imported the boot mesh with no texture into Unreal Engine and it looks fine. 75% of original size (was 667x19) - Click to enlargehttps://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/5d797f2e-27ae-4328-8fce-a111.png

Here's a close up of the top of the CC3 exported boot in Unreal Engine

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This might not help much, but regardless it needs to be rectified. The rim at the top of boots is a separate mesh and there is a gap. I do not believe there is a valid reason to have that gap.
You need to bridge those 2 edge loops on each boot:

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