Export .FBX with Cycles Render Engine #45126

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Al Dobra · 2015-06-20T19:36:56+02:00

Al Dobra commented

2015-06-20 19:36:56 +02:00

System Information
Windows 8.1 , graphic card Nvidia GTS250

Blender Version
2.74 000dfc0

Blender on Cycles Render Engine cannot export FBX files with user assigned material color information - as diffuse/glossy/emission nor assigned images textures. Objects get imported grey. Tested on two different software packages.

Works (though not perfectly) with Blender Render Engine. I wish it would work with Cycles too. At least if simple nodes would work for the important shaders: diffuse, glossy-specular, emissive, and ambient occlusion) and the attached image texture of the model, it will be great also.

**System Information** Windows 8.1 , graphic card Nvidia GTS250 **Blender Version** 2.74 000dfc0 Blender on Cycles Render Engine cannot export FBX files with user assigned material color information - as diffuse/glossy/emission nor assigned images textures. Objects get imported grey. Tested on two different software packages. Works (though not perfectly) with Blender Render Engine. I wish it would work with Cycles too. At least if simple nodes would work for the important shaders: diffuse, glossy-specular, emissive, and ambient occlusion) and the attached image texture of the model, it will be great also.

Al Dobra commented

2015-06-20 19:36:56 +02:00

Changed status to: 'Open'

Campbell Barton was assigned by Al Dobra

2015-06-20 19:36:56 +02:00

Al Dobra commented

2015-06-20 19:36:56 +02:00

Added subscriber: @AlexDoso

Al Dobra commented

2015-06-21 07:22:00 +02:00

maybe an upgrade of the plugin to ASCII 7.5.0. could export materials properly ?
I saw that 3Ds max 2016 exports 7.5.0 ascii files now.

maybe an upgrade of the plugin to ASCII 7.5.0. could export materials properly ? I saw that 3Ds max 2016 exports 7.5.0 ascii files now.

Bastien Montagne commented

2015-06-21 13:09:09 +02:00

Added subscriber: @mont29

Bastien Montagne commented

2015-06-21 13:09:09 +02:00

Changed status from 'Open' to: 'Archived'

Bastien Montagne closed this issue

2015-06-21 13:09:09 +02:00

Bastien Montagne commented

2015-06-21 13:09:09 +02:00

Thanks for the report, but this is a feature request, which is not accepted on this tracker. Further more, supporting the conversion of a complex nodal shading system to the very limited shading of FBX is practically impossible (outside of some very simple and limited cases), and not considered as a goal currently.

Al Dobra commented

2015-06-21 21:32:37 +02:00

I imported a model from 3ds max to blender in Cycles Engine and the materials imported with the same colour and applied texture (fbx binary). I am wondering why doesn't it work the other way around ?

Bastien Montagne commented

2015-06-21 22:39:51 +02:00

Converting simple (static pipeline) shading to nodal one is rather simple and straightforward, the reversed operation is… hairy.

Al Dobra commented

2015-07-04 17:21:39 +02:00

I wish the FBX export plugin at least could convert out of Cycles simple materials to have a diffuse, a glossy, an ambient occlusion, and an emitter node - as this is the information than can be transferred via FBX between software
And not forget a single attached texture to be able to export and that would be just fine and workable. Curently Cycles export no information of the material of the model.
Can this be done?
Even though I have no coding (nor Python) skills I wanna do it myself, but i need some guidance since I don't know what code to modify. So please help :)

I wish the FBX export plugin at least could convert out of Cycles simple materials to have a diffuse, a glossy, an ambient occlusion, and an emitter node - as this is the information than can be transferred via FBX between software And not forget a single attached texture to be able to export and that would be just fine and workable. Curently Cycles export no information of the material of the model. Can this be done? Even though I have no coding (nor Python) skills I wanna do it myself, but i need some guidance since I don't know what code to modify. So please help :)

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Export .FBX with Cycles Render Engine #45126