How to Remesh and Bake Holes in Unreal Engine

This guide is part of the RapidPipeline 3D Plugin Actions Knowledge Base. It shows how to Remesh and Bake Holes on Unreal Engine; if you'd like to know more about it, please check out the following links:

• Learn more about the Remesh and Bake Holes
• Learn more about Unreal Engine

1. Select the wicker mesh by clicking on it in the Viewport.
2. Inside the plugin window, choose the action Remesh and Bake Holes.
3. Press the Run button.

• Use the Unreal Engine plugin
• Select mesh(es) to process
• Choose an action and adjust settings
• Run the process
• Examine the results

This tutorial shows how use the RapidPipeline Processor plugin in Unreal Engine to simplify a 3D model. It walks through the use of the Remesh & Bake Holes action , and explains how to use it for closing holes and baking them into Alpha information. For more information see the Unreal Engine plugin Documentation.

The asset used in this tutorial is "wicker sofa" (https://skfb.ly/prBJM) by Md Imamul Hasan.

The wicker sofa input model.

The wicker sofa after processing the wicker.

The wicker has been remeshed, and textures were baked including an alpha map for the holes. The original wicker (top) is 811,008 triangles, and the output wicker (bottom) is 10,476 triangles.

The remeshed wicker sofa (upper left), baked color (upper right), baked alpha (lower left), and baked normal (lower right).

The Remesh and Bake Holes action opened in the plugin.

To see the difference in the mesh and inspect the holes-closure even closer, select apply a default plain material to both your models (input and output), and optionally select the Unlit Shading option.

The Input with a plain material and “Unlit” option.

The output with a plain material and “Unlit” option.

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