Blender and unreal?

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Hello

what is the fastest and easiest way to open an entire scene created in blender 2.8 in unreal? to illuminate with the unreal Gi real time?

thanks

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theres a small range of compatibility between unreal and blender i believe. ive heard of new export formats being worked on, but i dont really know much about them.

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Even visual studio can read fbx, that’s what I’d go for. You can export the entire scene that way too.

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do you have tutorial?
or link for me to inform myself about what you mentioned?

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File->Export->FBX – it’s that simple. If you need a manual on the Unreal side, https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Content/FBX/FullScene/index.html

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I suggest datasmith addon, it’s promising. Check this post:

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does this scheme fully load the scene: objects in their positions, materials and textures applied to objects, lights and cameras?

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Transforms yes, materials, textures and lights only kind of. If you want a 1 to 1 conversion you’ll have to try one of the addons. Datasmith seems to work okay, but frankly I’ve never used it.

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Datasmith for: blender for unreal already works?
what is the most current version?

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Datasmith is integrated in Unreal Engine by default in the new versions. I tested couple of weeks ago and it works. Datasmith is the “least click possible solution” when I compare with other formats, you just export/import and textures, hierarchies, lights are working out of the box (There are some limitations though. Rigs and animations were not working when I tested. So keep checking his github and discord for updates).

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Recent versions of UE4 have a glTF importer. I haven’t tried it, but I saw notes about fixes to the animations on glTF imports. Worth a shot to enable the glTF importer and see how that works for you.