Game - Developing the Kitchen model.

 6/03/23

I tried following the cloud tutorial that I looked at, but just like it said in the comments the tesselation feature doesn't exist in unreal engine 5. Therefore I followed the instructions but just put them into the world position offset and surprisingly this worked to create a cloud-like shape. However, when moving the shape this result distorted the shape a bit too much in some areas. The shape also wasn't transparent.

I tried building the lighting but this crashed unreal on the base room computer. Therefore I tried to render it instead but I got this warning:

I tried to resolve this but it took a long time to reload because it had to compile all the shaders. 
Therefore I decided to look into my other problems which were exporting the shape key animation & uv errors.

This video: How to create Blender shape key animations and import them in UE4 as morph target animations - YouTube shows how to export shape key animations by using "Push down to NLA" and creating location animations which match the shape key animations and moving them in the non-linear animation page (NLA) so that the actions match. This can be exported with the fbx. Uncheck all actions in the export settings.

Import the fbx as skeletal mesh and import morph targets and animations

(This ended up not really working and I had lots of problems importing, there is another blog post that talks about this.)