FBX format embedded media

[ikcppdeveloper]

It seems that when using EXP_FBX_EMBEDDED property when exporting FBX format viewer do not take this settings into account and use the media relative file path instead when loading textures.

Logs:

Mesh: Loading palm06.fbx. Assimp: Info, T0: Load palm06.fbx Assimp: Info, T0: Found a matching importer for this file format: Autodesk FBX Importer. Assimp: Info, T0: Import root directory is './' Assimp: Info, T0: Entering post processing pipeline Assimp: Info, T0: Points: 0, Lines: 0, Triangles: 1, Polygons: 0 (Meshes, X = removed) Assimp: Info, T0: Leaving post processing pipeline Texture 'palm06.fbx../../../../../../Data/matrix/obj/palm/palm06.png0.png': Loading 1 faces(PF_A8B8G8R8,256x256x1) with 8 hardware generated mipmaps from Image. Internal format is PF_A8B8G8R8,256x256x1. Error: preparing texture 'palm06.fbx../../../../../../Data/matrix/obj/palm/palm06.png./../../../../../Data/matrix/obj/palm/palm06.png.png'. Texture layer will be blank: Cannot locate resource palm06.fbx../../../../../../Data/matrix/obj/palm/palm06.png./../../../../../Data/matrix/obj/palm/palm06.png.png in resource group UserData.

Preview:

Source: palm06.zip

Blender:

Unity3D:

Autodesk:

Any suggestions of how to fix or have a workaround?

[sercero]

Texture 'palm06.fbx../../../../../../Data/matrix/obj/palm/palm06.png0.png': Loading 1 faces(PF_A8B8G8R8,256x256x1) with 8 hardware generated mipmaps from Image. Internal format is PF_A8B8G8R8,256x256x1.
Error: preparing texture 'palm06.fbx../../../../../../Data/matrix/obj/palm/palm06.png./../../../../../Data/matrix/obj/palm/palm06.png.png'. Texture layer will be blank: Cannot locate resource palm06.fbx../../../../../../Data/matrix/obj/palm/palm06.png./../../../../../Data/matrix/obj/palm/palm06.png.png in resource group UserData.

Well, aren't those some pretty paths... 😂

I don't know about that option, but can you try to export everything into a single folder and try again?

Also why is it that the name of the texture is palm06.png.png?

[ikcppdeveloper]

FBX SDK implements support to embed textures inside the fbx file using the EXP_FBX_EMBEDDED flag set to 'true' in the export settings, like if you use the raw buffers with 'image/png' mime type in glTF so the image will be stored inside the model file.

I checked the path value which is passed to the FBX SDK and it is a valid full file path, also you can check the file path's inside source fbx file, and it seems that they are also correct:

I don't know why the viewer shows such "strange" path's in logs :), but anyway why does importer use path's and tries to search texture file if it's embedded inside fbx file ...

Also when I don't use EXP_FBX_EMBEDDED setting the png file is placed beside the fbx file and all works as expected.

[sercero]

Do you know if this embedding of the textures is supported by ASSIMP?

OGRE uses that library to open FBX files because the native OGRE format is .mesh.

[ikcppdeveloper]

I'm not 100% sure but it's seems that yes

[paroj]

I'm not 100% sure but it's seems that yes

as per the docs, we should set AI_CONFIG_IMPORT_FBX_EMBEDDED_TEXTURES_LEGACY_NAMING