Forum - Tips & Tricks - FBX imports - Messages http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3172-fbx-imports.aspx Forum - Tips & Tricks - FBX imports - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Wed, 06 Apr 2016 22:56:27 GMT Wed, 06 Apr 2016 22:56:27 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3172-fbx-imports.aspx Message from wdeprospo edited by wdeprospo on 06/04/2016]]> Wed, 06 Apr 2016 22:56:27 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3172-fbx-imports.aspx Message from ziggy72 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 20:25:32 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3172-fbx-imports.aspx Message from wdeprospo Wed, 06 Apr 2016 20:25:08 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3172-fbx-imports.aspx Message from braj Wed, 06 Apr 2016 20:18:26 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3172-fbx-imports.aspx Message from wdeprospo
No, not all FBX files. I have two FBX files, a Swift Boat and a Shipyard Crane. Each multi-colored. It happens with these two files. Also a little experimenting showed - I saved both as favorites. When I load say the crane, it looks pretty good, then when I load the Swift Boat the colors change on the already loaded crane. It's almost like the colors have the same ID and the FBX colors are then changed to the most current color. After they both are loaded, I have trouble changing the first loaded FBX colors back to the original colors. The colors seem to get the toto.bmp pink color i use for ase files. Not a disaster, but very unusual.


1.7 - Build 2016.02.24.01R (64 bit) Windows 10]]> Wed, 06 Apr 2016 19:21:46 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3172-fbx-imports.aspx Message from ziggy72 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:07:30 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3172-fbx-imports.aspx Message from wdeprospo
I import an FBX file. It imports OK and looks good. I then save the set and reload it. Most of the FBX color and material is gone. Must the Directory containing the material be in a special place for Muvizu. And why does the color disappear?

Any help is usually good help.

William]]> Wed, 06 Apr 2016 17:25:30 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3172-fbx-imports.aspx Message from urbanlamb
I am also pretty sure this autodesk exporter has been mentioned a few times here (or maybe that was another forum.. who knows)


anyhow just thought I would suggest it. Since I automatically add the needed or rather remove the collision with strategic cube placement it seems a redundant process to me but then i am a geek and I fully admit to my geeky and nerdy ways

I think the ziggy mesh worked well because ASE files are much simpler plus its ascii and not binary. FBX models have a lot more info in them and working with the binary would be more difficult. Anyhow never hurts to ask I guess. ]]> Thu, 14 Nov 2013 22:33:02 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3172-fbx-imports.aspx Message from ukBerty
The big advantage of ASE over FBX at the moment is that to remove collision on 20 ASE models takes me around 3 seconds. I doubt whether I could do it in under an hour using FBX.

Ideally the time to decide whether to remove (reduce) collision would be when you import into Muvizu. I wont hold my breath for this though !]]> Thu, 14 Nov 2013 21:09:06 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3172-fbx-imports.aspx Message from urbanlamb ]]> Thu, 14 Nov 2013 17:51:04 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3172-fbx-imports.aspx Message from ukBerty
There seems to be two versions of FBX files, ASCII and Binary. It seems that Muvizu only likes Binary FBX files, which is the what this converter produces.

I have a batch file to remove collision from multiple ASE files, but to remove from binary FBX files would be too hard for me I think. I could have a go at the ASCII FBX files, but I'm not sure there's much point.

Ideally we could do with a "Import with minimal collision" check box in Muvizu, on both FBX and ASE files - this would make everyone happy - those who hate collision and those that (wrongly) like it.]]> Thu, 14 Nov 2013 12:37:36 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3172-fbx-imports.aspx Message from toonarama toonarama wrote:
IanHolmes wrote:
Found a great 64bit converter today whilst banging my head against sketchup and ase. Its here http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/fbx20133_converter_win.exe. Now I can model in turbocad, blender, 3ds and export as .3ds.

The convertor effortlessly batch converts files to the 2013 fbx format (and others) which Muvizu reads ok.




This works brilliantly - couldn't be simpler - THANK YOU!



The only issue with it appears to be that there is no way of removing the collision (as far as I can see)]]> Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:04:06 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3172-fbx-imports.aspx Message from ukBerty
It's OK - found it -

http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/fbx20133_converter_win_x64.exe
http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/fbx20133_converter_win.exe

(I realise what has happened now - the full stop has become part of the URL in your post and confused me !)
edited by ukBerty on 14/11/2013]]> Thu, 14 Nov 2013 08:06:21 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3172-fbx-imports.aspx Message from toonarama IanHolmes wrote:
Found a great 64bit converter today whilst banging my head against sketchup and ase. Its here http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/fbx20133_converter_win.exe. Now I can model in turbocad, blender, 3ds and export as .3ds.

The convertor effortlessly batch converts files to the 2013 fbx format (and others) which Muvizu reads ok.




This works brilliantly - couldn't be simpler - THANK YOU!]]> Wed, 13 Nov 2013 20:59:57 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3172-fbx-imports.aspx Message from IanHolmes Wed, 13 Nov 2013 17:27:24 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3172-fbx-imports.aspx Message from urbanlamb
http://muvizu.com/Wiki/wiki/106/fbx-scale-guidelines-scene-objects-vs-attachments

and here is a video on a quick and easy method of getting premade assets into muvizu from blender and how to add recognizable collision. Please note at the time this video was made there was a colission bug which is fixed now. If you export with y axis up and z forward it will work now 99.999% of the time (the fbx exporter in blender appears to have a bug that randomly asserts itself still ^^)

http://muvizu.com/Video/31664/How-to-use-Decimate-lower-Polygon-count-Impor


I dont know how people are doing it in sketchup I am allergic to sketchup but I do know that its dead easy to move stuff into muvizu from blender (as long as you know how ^^)
edited by urbanlamb on 13/11/2013]]> Wed, 13 Nov 2013 17:03:19 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic3172-fbx-imports.aspx Message from IanHolmes http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/fbx20133_converter_win.exe. Now I can model in turbocad, blender, 3ds and export as .3ds.

The convertor effortlessly batch converts files to the 2013 fbx format (and others) which Muvizu reads ok.

Through trial and many errors I can also report that an object which is 6 units wide is about the same width as a standard head.

Its much less painful than the sketchup route in my opinion (and quicker)]]> Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:55:29 GMT