Metahuman scale so tiny

[Regaladol]

Is there a way to change the scale of imports? Maya makes them super big whereas blender makes them very small. Tried scaling it up but is not working properly.

P.D:. I am a bit of a blender noob (mostly Maya and Houdini user)

[jack-yao91]

Can you look and see what your scene unit scale is in blender?

If this is 1 (which is the blender default), the MetaHuman should come in at the expected size with transforms applied. Do you have a screen shot?

[Regaladol]

Seems to be matching yours, but If I was aiming to match Maya? I tried even cm but there was no change when importing the DNA

[jack-yao91]

What does the actual MetaHuman look like in the view port? What is the height of the human if you measure it?

[Regaladol]

When hitting Import Metahuman DNA from File>Import>MetaHuman DNA (.dna)
it imports it in meters as 1.75m

I have some clothes exports from Maya for other characters coming from Unreal or Maya even and they are 175m

If I change the scale from 1.0 I get an error

Ideally I want to import 100 units bigger. Is there a way to control that in the DNA plugin!?!?!?!?!

Changing it to cm or milimeters does not affect anything. I would like it to be able to adjust the scale of the Metahumans and not the accessories that come from Other DCC's

[jack-yao91]

Ok, yea you don't want to scale the MetaHuman, that will break RigLogic's computation of the rig outputs and give you export/import issues if you ever want to take this data out of Blender.

You want to scale your clothing meshes by 0.01. Then do CTRL+A and apply scale. From there you can assign an armature modifier if your vertex groups were imported on the clothing mesh. If you do that, you should be able to send those meshes back to other DCCs fine.

Also, setting the scene units to something like centimeters or milimeters in Blender is a purely a UI thing and how units display to the user, the API is always in meters and scene scale is actually what will effect that on Import/Export.

You will want to always keep the MetaHuman's size the same across Maya, Blender, and Unreal. So 1.75 Meters tall sounds right.

But to summarize, keep blender scene scale at 1 (the default). Import your DNA. Scale down and apply transforms on accessories if your file format from another DCC exported at a different scale. Otherwise adjust your export settings from when exporting from those DCCs.

Hope that helps.

[Regaladol]

Yeah... but no!! I don't want that! I would like to have control over the scale of the import of the MetaHuman DNA! not the Accessories. That is why I am opening this!

I have used other rigging tools for metahumans... This one is lacking this flexibility.

Maya scale when building the metahumans is like the clothes, is set to 175 meters. I expect blender to behave the same. Is there a way to add this feature?? Since working in a team with people using other DCCs it will be a great feature.
I wanted to use this plugin but if it is not needed I will switch back to the other ones. I guess thank god this was made free... otherwise I would have regret spending money on this