External texture import

[zhang8043]

After importing, the material of the model itself is not loaded. Does it lose the original meaning of Assist.

[zhang8043]

If a model contains multiple materials, do you want to create all materials in the engine in advance?

[irajsb]

each material section is a separate mesh in assimp. are you using the sample project in releases tab?

[zhang8043]

Yes, 5.4.2 EmbeddedTextureImport also has no material

[zhang8043]

[zhang8043]

All imported models are of this color

[irajsb]

Can you share one of the models so I can test for myself?

[zhang8043]

https://github.com/assimp/assimp-mdb/tree/master/model-db/Obj/Spider

[zhang8043]

Hello, you can use this OBJ model to test

[zhang8043]

After importing UE

[irajsb]

That spider doesn't have embedded textures it has external textures . You have to pack textures inside the model in order to auto import them . if textures are not embedded assimp only gives you a path to textures and you've to import them yourself .
The reasons that I don't add support for auto importing external textures are :
1- I want to keep the code simple to understand for others 2- Unreal has support for multiple platforms and accessing files on other platforms requires third party plugins in some cases. I recommend glb format if you plan to use embedded textures here is an example: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Sample-Models/blob/master/2.0/Corset/glTF-Binary/Corset.glb

[zhang8043]

ok, thank you

[irajsb]

I'm going to see if I can add support for external textures using FImageUtils::ImportFileAsTexture2D(FilePath);

[irajsb]

https://github.com/irajsb/UE4_Assimp/releases/tag/ExternalTextureImport @zhang8043