Attach a rigid body tree as a skeleton to a static mesh or to an fbx model

I have one of many models downloaded from www.sketchfab.com as gltf or fbx. However, these do not have an inbuilt skeleton to use for animation in UNREAL ENGINE; the target.

Is it possible attach a rigid body tree to any of these two files then export it to unreal and then animate there.

Preferably animate the rigid body tree as a robot and communicate the animation data to UNREAL ENGINE via data communication to the UNREAL ENGINE.

Answer 1

[Githin John]

Hello,

The best way to attach bones to the skeletal mesh in Unreal would be to first import the FBX file to a CAD software where you can then attach the skeleton and then export for use in Unreal.

Blender and Maya are good candiadtes for this.

If you have a rigidBodyTree model of the robot in MATLAB, you could use the link dimensions as reference when creaing the skeleton in the CAD software.

Best,

Githin