Maya exported fbx with specific material slot order in Unreal

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Hi All,

I am trying to export fbx from maya so that the materials assigned to the mesh show up in unreal in a specific order. Maya doesn’t really have a concept of material slot order and so far I could not find a way to wrangle the material order. I’ve seen some threads that refer to adding “skin##” to the material names to force ordering, but was wondering if others have a solution that is name agnostic.

Thanks in advance!

RG

#2

Is there a specific reason that they have to show up in order vs checking name assigned and mat names in engine?

#3

yes. In our case the artists assume that the specific material element will always have a specific material in UE. For example slot one is always brick material, slot two is always metal, slot three is always glass and so on.

I ended up using the “append skin## to material name” method and it seems to work. I was hoping for a more elegant solution.