Importing Tarkov characters to Blender

In this article I will describe my workflow for importing characters from Escape from Tarkov into Blender.

Check my Open3DLab profile to see the stuff I already ported to Blender.

Requirements

• The game Escape from Tarkov installed on your PC
• Razviar’s Assetstudio
• Blender with the following add-ons :
  • Tark to Blend to complete the material setup (see my article about importing maps for more information)
  • Rigify, which should already be pre-installed.
  • Rigi-all which will be used to create the Rigify rig.
  • Bone Widget which will help with the Rigify rig.

Objectives

We will see how to create :

• A blend file containing the character and its in-game animations.
• Another file containing the character and a Rigify version of its rig.

The method I will present will allow you to import the character directly with its weight painting and facial animations. However, I did not find how to make the animations and Rigify rig work at the same time, that is why we will focus on making separate files.