Workman's Guide to MetaHuman Outfits for Unreal Engine

Import the MetaHuman body and create a simple shirt and pants outfit using presets.  Export the final mesh as an FBX to be prepped in Maya/Blender.

Do some basic UV layout and Material assignments in Maya.  This process is identical in Blender.

Create some very basic materials in Substance Painter.

Import the Static Mesh and Textures.  Create a basic ORM Materials in Unreal Engine.

Copy the Combined Skel Mesh and Skeleton to the Outfit folder.  This a very NEW part of the workflow.

Create and configure the Chaos Cloth Asset in Unreal Engine.

Create the Outfit Asset

Create and configure the MetaHuman Wardrobe Item.

Retarget a Mannequin animation to your MetaHuman skeleton and test your outfit.

Create a Body Mask using the UVs from the Body in Photoshop.

Change the ORM Material to be 2 Sided.

Create a Mask ORM Material in Unreal Engine

Configure the MetaHuman Wadrobe Item to interact with the new Mask ORM Material

Some notes about modelling shoes for MetaHumans.  We do NOT cover modelling these.  They were based a 3D photoscan and retoplogized in Maya using the Quad draw tool.

Create a hoodie and pants outfit using the shoes as an additional avatar.

Add thickness to the "flat" Marvelous Designer clothing

We didn't do a "high poly/ZBrush" workflow, so our mesh is a little faceted.  We use the sculpting tools to smooth out the silhouette of the mesh.

UV the new "trim/thickness" parts of the mesh and assign materials for Substance Painter and Unreal Engine.

Assign a quick base material and start designing the RGB mask.

Continue adding design details to the RGB mask.

Use the Path Tool in Substance Painter to quickly and non destructively add "Top Stich" to the clothing.

Import textures and tweak the textures in Substance Painter.

Setup the boots with a basic ORM texture.

Create a cloth asset that combines two Static Meshes.

Setup the Runtime Parameters in the Wardrobe Item.

Test the Outfit and Details in MetaHuman Creator.  Generate a new body Mask for just the hands.

Test the final outfit in a walk animation.  Verify and Package the final Outfit in MetaHuman Manager.

Create a "Photo Studio" in Unreal Engine to create images for Fab

Customize the Material Instances for the final Wardobe Item Thumbnail

Set the project Streaming Poolsize and create a "Front and Back" image for the Fab gallery

Create more "Front Back" images to show how the MetaHuman Outfit scales with the bodies

Create a Fab listing and fill out the MetaHuman Asset Meta Data and upload our Fab gallery images