Maybe I have photographs which need to be processed by other tools before they come out as height maps.

Maybe I have a bunch of hundred-layer SVGs that I haven't rendered or imported into Spine yet, to be able to animate them. Maybe I got some ALOS digital geography files and I need a special tool to export those to PNGs as height maps I can use in terrain building. This goes for other big old gnarly composite or specialty files which I don't expect Unity to support directly, or the way I want them supported. Maybe the dummy character is wearing all his clothes and holding several kinds of weapons. Maybe the house is made in Blender with 50 pieces, and I export them room by room into 4 FBX files. I can then decide manually which pieces get exported as separate FBX files, and then put those FBX files into Unity's clutches within the Assets tree. I would much rather take a big old gnarly composite file such as one blend with a complete house or a complete character with an extensive wardrobe, and keep it OUT of the Assets folder. Even if Unity is launching Blender and asking Blender to export to FBX, it's expecting too much to assume I can tell Unity exactly how each FBX should be exported with all the settings available. Make a model with a mesh and a rig or use the one attached.Click to expand.This is true, but having worked with Blender for many years, inside its Open Source code and also as a modeling user, I really really don't like to assume that any other app should try to import the file themselves. **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** Import both files into Unity and try to view the animation, or drag the models into the hierarchy.Īnimation exported with rig selected and 'selected objects' on Īnimation exported with 'selected objects' off Then select the Rig (or even just 'select all') and export again with these settings: Select the Rig & Mesh and export it with the following export settings: Make a model with a mesh and a rig or use the one attached. The animation only works on the model that has the 'rig' node.Įxact steps for others to reproduce the error The animation exported with no mesh but 'Selected Objects' off has the 'rig' node, but has also exported rigify's metarig. The animation exported with no mesh, the rig selected and 'Selected Objects' checked in the export settings does not have a 'rig' node. The exported mesh and rig, without animation has a 'rig' node. This problem did and does not occur when using comparable settings on the FBX6.1 exporter.

It appears to be missing the node 'rig' (see attached screenshot). When exporting an animation using the FBX 7.4 exporter with 'Selected Objects' selected and then importing the resulting file into Unity, the armature doesn't work.

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