Animated models

Send an animated character from Meshy to Unreal Engine with its skeleton and animation, ready to play in your level.

Send an animated model

You send an animated model the same way as a static one. Before you start, turn on Meshy Bridge in Unreal Editor. For the steps, see Bridge to Unreal Engine.

To send an animated model, follow these steps:

  1. In the Meshy web app, open the animated model in the viewer.

  2. Select the animation you want to send.

    Animated dog in the Meshy viewer with its Walking animation selected

  3. In the viewer toolbar, click DCC Bridge (the plug icon).

  4. Click Send to Unreal.

Meshy sends the rigged character with the selected animation at 30 frames per second. The plugin imports the character and its animation into Content/MeshyImports, places the character in the level, and sets it to play the animation in a loop.

Unreal Editor with the imported dog in the level and its Details panel set to Use Animation Asset, with Looping and Playing selected

To watch the animation, click Play in the Unreal Editor toolbar.

Unreal Editor in Play mode with the animated dog walking across the level

Next steps

  • To add more animations to a character before you send it, see Animation.