Export from Blender To Unreal Engine 5 Via USD | An Alternative When Datasmith is Not Available

Hey guys!

I know you've thought before that there should be a way to export your Blender project to Unreal without the hassle of creating materials and bringing textures all over again.
Unfortunately, there's no Datasmith plugin/add-on for Blender, but luckily, Pixar has made their USD file format open source and Blender can export such files, and Unreal has a plugin to be able to import them, lucky us!

In this video, I'll show you how to export a project from Blender to Unreal via USD and some limitations and issues you might face to take into consideration.

I'm using Unreal Engine Version 5.3 in this video.

Links:
To the 3D Model courtesy of Architecture Topics
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USD Documentation:
https://www.pixar.com/usd
https://openusd.org/release/index.html

Inspired by Riley Brown's Tutorial, check it out!
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Chapters:
0:00 No Datasmith, but USD!
1:45 Exporting from Blender
3:47 Importing to Unreal
5:43 Issues with Materials and How to Solve Them
9:51 Re-Exporting/Re-Importing
10:32 Checking and Tweaking our Assets
16:30 Final Import
18:30 Be Mindful of Your Scales
20:00 If you Want to Change Materials

My Spec:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6900K CPU @ 3.20GHz
Ram: 64GB
Graphics Card: Nvidia RTX 3090