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Tutorial: Character Editing Cavats; Step 3.

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Generate a Mirror Table in Unreal Engine

Launch Unreal Engine 4.18.3 and create a new blank project. Remember the folder location that you entered where the project will be stored. In my case, it's located at X:\BloodstainedMods\CharacterEditing\CharacterEditUnreal.

After the project is created an Unreal Engine loads, immediately close Unreal Engine. Navigate to the folder where the project is stored. It should have “Config”, “Content”, “Intermediate”, etc. folders inside of it already. Create a new folder in this directory and name it Plugins.

Download the Mirror Plugin Toolbar tool and extract the contents of the .zip file. Copy the “MirrorPluginToolbar” folder and paste it inside of the Plugins folder you just created.

Now if you open the MirrorPluginToolbar folder you just pasted inside of the Plugins folder, it should contain a file called MirrorPluginToolbar.uplugin. If it does not, you did something wrong. Make sure the folder structure matches the screenshot below.

Open up Unreal Engine again, and load the project you just created.

You should see a “Create Mirror Table” button in the toolbar at the top of the 3D view, this is the plugin you just installed.

Import Miriam's body model SK_P1000.fbx the same way we did in the introductory tutorial. As a reminder:

  • Find the path of the original SK_P1000.uasset file and create it in Unreal Engine.
  • Drag & Drop SK_P1000.fbx into Unreal Engine at that path, import with default settings.
  • Move/rename the materials, physics asset, and skeleton to their original file path and filename, reference the exported .uasset files from the original game.
  • Create material instances for each of the materials, delete the original material, rename the material instance to match the original filename of the .uasset containing the original material. Then re-assign the new material instances to the 3D model, in the original order they were referenced.

Your Content Browser folder structure in Unreal Engine (in this particular example) should end up like this: 

Content
  Core
    Character
      P0000
        Material
          Body
            M_Body06_06 (Material Instance)
          Outline
            M_Outline_PI001_Inst (Material Instance)
          Skin
            M_Skin01 (Material Instance)
          M_PI01_Rose1_Inst (Material Instance)
          M_PI01_Rose2_Inst (Material Instance)
        Mesh
          PhysicsAsset_P0000 (Physics Asset)
          SK_P10000 (Skeletal Mesh)
          Skeleton_P0000 (Skeleton)

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