AstraBake Plugin for Unreal Engine

Bake MetaHuman animation into clean skeletal bone animation for export to Blender.

AstraBake is built for simulation and technical art pipelines, not high-fidelity facial-performance playback inside Unreal.

Its purpose is to generate clean, dependable bone animation for downstream work such as cloth, hair, fluid and secondary motion simulation.

It is a lightweight Unreal Engine editor plugin built for a simple, fast baking workflow, especially where RigLogic may not be available or desirable.

it is primarily designed and tested for Blender Export workflows. It may also work in other DCC tools, but Blender is the only DCC currently tested.

AstraBake is primarily aimed at MetaHuman facial animation workflows, but it also works with body meshes (and other compatible meshes) that use the same MetaHuman skeleton.

Features:

Live Preview

Single Mesh Workflow (Simple and Fast)
Bake to New AnimSequence (Bone Keys)
Preview Post Process Override
Configurable Output Folder and Naming Suffix

Per-Project User Settings

FBX Export for Blender
Works with Unreal Engine 5.6+

Tutorial: Youtube Tutorial

Documentation and Support: https://www.zenblink.com

AstraBake creates a baked AnimSequence from your selected animation, then exports it to FBX for use in Blender (and potentially other DCC tools).

Designed for technical artists and simulation focused workflows:

• Facial animation export for Blender simulation setups

• Cloth simulation

• Hair simulation

• fluid simulation

• VFX workflows

• Particles sims

• Secondary motion

• Blender retargeting workflows

• RigLogic-free validation of bone motion

• DCC pipeline export

AstraBake helps you move from Unreal animation assets to clean exported motion quickly and reliably.