Modifying the face mesh inside the MetaHuman Creator online tool

Once you have opened up Quixel Bridge, navigate to My MetaHumans. There you will see a new black-and-white icon. As per Figure 11.25, the icon indicates that this MetaHuman was created with the Mesh to MetaHuman plugin. Click on the black-and-white icon and navigate to the Start MHC button.

Figure 11.25: MetaHuman Identity icons

You will be taken to the familiar MetaHuman Creator online application featured in Chapter 2. As you can see in Figure 11.26, the MetaHuman has no skin and it is somewhat distorted. Most notably, the upper head protrudes unnaturally. The reason for this is that the face mesh scan that was created using the KIRI Engine app also scanned my hair; the MetaHuman Identity solver couldn’t determine what the hair actually was, resulting in skin tissue instead of hair.

Figure 11.26: MetaHuman Creator with the face scan

There is an easy fix to the...