UE to Rigify is a Blender add-on designed to streamline the animation workflow for skeletal meshes between Blender and Unreal Engine. It provides users with the robust control rig inside Blender based on Rigify.
Rigify is Blender’s built-in auto-rigging system.
UE to Rigify Overview
UE to Rigify works with UE4 and UE5 mannequin skeletons using pre-built Templates shipped with the addon. Custom rigs can also work with the addon after a manual setup.
The primary function of the addon is to transform a basic UE game rig (just bones, no controls) into a fully functional Rigify control rig for easy animation inside Blender.
The add-on enables a seamless round-trip workflow.
In Blender, keyframes from the source rig's animation are automatically copied to the new Rigify control rig. This allows the user to polishing an existing animation using Rigify as a control rig.
As a safeguard, the original imported animation is preserved as a copy. Once animation edits are complete, users can easily Bake the newly created animation down to the original source bones. This results in a final animation that is ready to be exported back into Unreal Engine, using FBX or the Send to Unreal addon.
Send to Unreal and UE to Rigify are part of the same suite of Blender tools.
UE to Rigify Templates
An important feature of UE to Rigify is its sharable Templates. Templates contain all the critical bone relationships and mappings necessary to convert specific source rigs to a Rigify rig.
There are several default templates shipped with the addon allowing you to easily convert the default UE4 and UE5 Mannequins to Rigify. Users can also create new Templates from scratch.
Download info
UE to Rigify was originally developed by the creators of Unreal Engine (Epic Games)
Unfortunately, the official development seems to have been discontinued without an explanation.
However, thanks to GPL license, the project was revived by a community member.
Poly-Hammer version of Send to Unreal
This updated version of the addon works with newer Blender versions such as 3.6, 4.x and it will hopefully keep getting updates.
Original version of Send to Unreal
Below, you’ll find the original addon by Epic Games.
