Blender Metarig not deforming mesh in Godot

[TheJudicator]

Godot Version

4.4.1

Question

I am newer to Godot, and have been more so getting a hang of the engine rather than any project in particular. Recently, I have been trying to import an animation as a glb file from blender. The animation works properly in blender.When I import it to Godot, the metarig moves, but it does not deform the mesh at all. I was wondering what is causing this and how I can fix this so it works as intended. Also, my blender version is 4.3.2

[tomcat]

How exactly did you import the animation? Maybe you can find some hints here.

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[TheJudicator]

I exported the animation as a .glb file, dragged it into the filesystem area on the GUI, double clicked it, set up the bone map on the skeleton3D, then right clicked and selected new inherited scene. When I do this and test the animation in the scene, it only moves the Metarig. I have also tried and failed with a Gamerig, as shown in this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4zL3u0BSBY&list=PLV5T4EgpiiGPdtBDJO_K4bhab3_xKnNJ5&index=2
As well as importing the full blend file, which gave the same result

[tomcat]

@TheJudicator

I exported the animation as a .glb file, dragged it into the filesystem area on the GUI, double clicked it, set up the bone map on the skeleton3D, then right clicked and selected new inherited scene.

You have to import the animation together with the mesh. I can’t see what’s on youtube — it’s blocked in our country.

As well as importing the full blend file, which gave the same result

Can you share the problem file?

Here’s a similar issue:

Parent MeshInstance to skeleton

Godot Version Godot 4.4.1 Question I’m trying to implement character customization in my game. I’m setting this up by exporting the skeleton as one GLB file, and each asset is a different GLB file. However, I can’t figure out how to dynamically parent these model files to the skeleton within Godot. If I parent them in blender, export to GLB, and then use them in Godot, it works just fine, but trying to parent them within Godot itself does not work. Setting the “skeleton” property also doesn’t …

[TheJudicator]

Here is the glb and tscn files. The blend file was too big to upload. Please note, these were solely for testing purposes, and the animation nor mesh is perfect. https://github.com/TheLastOfTheConclave/BlenderGodotIssue

I also tried parenting the mesh to the armature as in that discussion, but it did not have any effect

[tomcat]

@TheJudicator

Here is the glb and tscn files. The blend file was too big to upload.

That’s right — in the .glb file, the animation is not assigned to the mesh. It needs a .blend file. You can upload to a file sharing site (e.g. Gofile.io)

[TheJudicator]

Here is the blend file: [https://gofile.io/d/Xt2oVZ](Gofile - Cloud Storage Made Simple)
I thought the animations need to be assigned to the armature, which parents the mesh with automatic weights.

[tomcat]

@TheJudicator

Here is the blend file:

If very briefly, the way you made the animation — it can not be imported into the engine. What is necessary, in order to fix — I need time to figure out. But it is better if here will answer, more familiar with Blender.

Where did you get the animation and how did you assign it?

[tomcat]

@TheJudicator

Here is the blend file:

Try this file:

TemplarMeshAnimation.glb (8 MB)

[TheJudicator]

It works! How did you get it to work?

Where did you get the animation and how did you assign it?

I put it together real quick to test how animations work in Godot.

Also, thank you for all the help with this. I was completely stumped.

[tomcat]

@TheJudicator

It works! How did you get it to work?

Here’s the fixed blender file:

TemplarMeshAnimation_fix.blend (47 MB)

[Blender 4.4.1] (If you have a different version — tell me — I’ll try to do it in yours.)

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[tomcat]

@TheJudicator

Как вы заставили его работать?

A deeper study, allows to say that the problem is in an unnecessary modifier. Removing it solves the issue. It is better not to have anything extra in the file.