[Bf-funboard] Export to FBX?

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Someone was interested in making an openFBX, but this didnt really take  
off. He then contacted me and the president of Kaydara to get him  
interested sponsoring a dev kit, and find some way to license their  
libs compatible with GPL.

Discussions on that stalled early last year, and with the take-over by  
Alias not likely to actually continue.

So, main issue is that the fbx toolkit is closed source and requires a  
license to distribute. Only solution for us now would be someone coding  
it all in python... (btw, which is possible to do as commercial project  
too. Python scripts don't have requirement to be license-compatible  
with Blender).

-Ton-


On 19 Jan, 2005, at 7:56, Anthony Zierhut wrote:

> Is there any development going on now to export model
> and animation data to the .fbx format?  I've been
> reading a little about it, and it seems most of the
> big 3d packages have plugin support for import/export
> of .fbx.  If Blender could read/write FBX it could be
> a way of having Blender more seamlessly integrate into
> a Maya, LightWave or 3dsMax work environment.  Or
> maybe somebody's already done this and I just don't
> know about it.
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