FBX adding mandatory Empty as parent #63240

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Alexander Dumproff · 2019-04-03T10:13:48+02:00

2019-04-03 10:13:48 +02:00

System Information
Operating system: Windows 7 Pro 64Bit
Graphics card: NVidia Quadro 5000

Blender Version
Blender 2.8 Beta
Build Date: 2019-03-31
Hash: b936d7b16c62

Short description of error
FBX Exporter cannot save a bone rig without adding an empty object on top of the hierarchy. Sometimes it might be desired to have a bone hierarchy resting on the highest level.
For example: This creates compatibility issues with at least Unity which has its own bug with transferring Animation Data from a Rig with null as parent.
There might be other cases as well where a bonestructure being located on the root level instead of a parent is preferred or necessary.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Create any bone rig hierarchy and export the rig only with either 'Null', 'Root' or 'limb Node' (doesn't matter) then open the FBX file in another application like Maya.
See screenshot:

**System Information** Operating system: Windows 7 Pro 64Bit Graphics card: NVidia Quadro 5000 **Blender Version** Blender 2.8 Beta Build Date: 2019-03-31 Hash: b936d7b16c62 **Short description of error** FBX Exporter cannot save a bone rig without adding an empty object on top of the hierarchy. Sometimes it might be desired to have a bone hierarchy resting on the highest level. For example: This creates compatibility issues with at least Unity which has its own bug with transferring Animation Data from a Rig with null as parent. There might be other cases as well where a bonestructure being located on the root level instead of a parent is preferred or necessary. **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** Create any bone rig hierarchy and export the rig only with either 'Null', 'Root' or 'limb Node' (doesn't matter) then open the FBX file in another application like Maya. See screenshot: ![Blender_Hierarchy.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F6908647/Blender_Hierarchy.png) ![Maya_Hierarchy.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F6908641/Maya_Hierarchy.png)

Alexander Dumproff commented

2019-04-03 10:13:48 +02:00

Added subscriber: @A.Lex_3D

Daniel Grauer commented

2019-04-07 16:38:25 +02:00

Added subscriber: @DanielGrauer

Bastien Montagne was assigned by Brendon Murphy

2019-09-09 05:50:59 +02:00

Bastien Montagne commented

2019-09-09 14:18:15 +02:00

Changed status from 'Open' to: 'Archived'

Bastien Montagne closed this issue

2019-09-09 14:18:15 +02:00

Bastien Montagne commented

2019-09-09 14:18:15 +02:00

this has already been said numerous times: Blender armatures are objects, which are de facto a 'root empty' for the bones hierarchy in FBX. Getting rid of it would be a lot of work, rather risky, and it's definitively not a bug, at best a known TODO. Thanks for the report anyway.

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FBX adding mandatory Empty as parent #63240