Godot FBX Just Got ALOT Better!

In the upcoming version of Godot 3.2.4 there is a new FBX importer. This isn't the Assimp version from Godot 3.2, but a completely new open source version of Assimp made specifically for Godot. In this video I will test the results with models from two popular sources, Mixamo animated characters and a scene from SketchFab.

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[not-another-dev]

I actually think I can resolve the scaling problem! Will make a patch tomorrow there are also some other fixes landing soon :)

I’m so glad you did the video happy it mostly worked :)

Thank you :3

Materials are coming very very soon :)

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3.2.4 Godot Updates in this video.
2:20 New 3D Gizmo.The previous used to draw full circles around the gizmo. Now the circles facing to the camera are only drawn.
8:27 The orange bounding boxes around the models which can be seen around and over the model.

Also, Mike you can press the reset icon to reset the position to origin.

[maynk]

Absolute Legend. Godot has a very talented Dev Community !

[digitaltrash]

scaling issue is pretty common when some software using different world unit

[mibaatwork]

I've been following your posts for quite a while, always great! That godot needed an fbx update is out of question. But i also prefer GLTF as exchange format.

[dancinspace]

I do not comment enough, but I really appreciate your frequent and detailed information about all-the-things related to game making!

[kebrus]

FBX file format has scaling factors which in theory allows you to convert mesh data from one unit to another, like centimeters to meters or meters to inches without altering the original vertex data, in practice tho is just an extra headache you have to deal with because every 3D software has different configurations and presets for exporting FBX files and users are not aware of the consequences of those options. So there's nothing wrong with that second file, most likely that issue will also happen in other engines. The author simply didn't pay much attention to the export options.

[brandonfarfan]

Good to see that the fbx importer is being made better. That is good news. Big props to the person working on it.👍😃

[Chevifier]

Thats actually funny that the static mesh is what had issues, everytime i try to import an animated mesh as fbx I just give up

[davidmurphy]

I'm a big fan of GLSL, works really well in my experience but I'll def check this out.

[TheDSphinx]

It nice to see open source software like Godot getting all these improvements. I really need to go back to playing with it. Thanks for sharing.

[tengkuizdihar]

On the diorama, have you tried importing it to other game engine like unity or unreal? maybe the scaling issue came from the asset itself not godot. Just a suggestion.

[JeffreyThrash]

Just use GLTF! It is so much better than FBX at this point. I only bother with the other 3D model formats for games if the engine doesn’t support GLTF importing.

[CharlesVanNoland]

I've been waiting for the official 4.0 release for 2 years :P

[Icessien]

I’m so happy they finally fixed this issue

[djteogeo]

There's a Root Scale variable in the import settings. There always is one.

Also super important: Scale on the inspector needs to always be 1 (and Rotation, Location on 0).
If u have any other values there's all sorts of problems when animating and when baking Lightmaps.

[pgt]

Your timing is perfect, i was just using godot and this video popped up.

[Allegromk]

wonderful! Ive been putting of redoing my models UV mappings because of the importing problems I get. I think I will wait for version 3.2.4 to drop before i do that bit.

[polymakegames]

FBX, love it or hate it..lmao. never thought fbx was controversial

[migueldomingos]

Love seeing godot getting better! Make this open source engine beat multi million dollar corporation engines such as unity and unreal