ibrews/metahumangodot

MetaHumanGodot is a look-development tool that lets you render and adjust MetaHuman characters inside the Godot 4 game engine. MetaHuman is Unreal Engine's system for creating highly detailed digital human faces, and this tool brings those characters into Godot with real-time skin, lighting, hair, and eye controls. The repository is an independent community project and is not affiliated with Epic Games or the Godot Foundation. The main use case is evaluating how a MetaHuman character looks under different lighting conditions and with different skin and material settings before or during production. You get a two-panel look-dev scene with live sliders for skin properties like subsurface scattering, pore-level detail, and specular, hair color, roughness, and anisotropic sheen, eye settings including iris scale, limbal ring, and lid shadow, and per-light color and intensity for key, fill, rim, ambient, and catchlight lights. The tool ships with over a dozen lighting presets such as moonlight, golden hour, Rembrandt, and cyberpunk, and you can save your own looks as JSON files. Every slider has a text input box so you can enter values outside the slider range. The tool supports the 52 ARKit facial blend shapes, the same set used by Face ID on iPhones, so you can pose a MetaHuman face or see how it deforms during expressions. There is also a built-in face animation that moves through a short sequence of expressions, a body idle animation, and a turntable mode. A VR build lets you walk around the character in room-scale stereo. This repository ships the Godot project and shaders but does not include any MetaHuman character assets. You export your own character from Unreal as a GLB file and load it through a file dialog or by dragging it onto the window. The project runs in Godot 4.6 with no custom engine build required. The skin shading uses the open-source MatMADNESS HumanShader for realistic subsurface light scattering.