[Bf-committers] [Bf-gamedev] The future of FBX and/or other formats in Blender

[Michael Knubben]

@campbell: I just tested it, and I'm still getting the message 'ASCII FBX
files are not supported' in 2.76, and nothing I can find about 2.77
indicates that's been resolved.
So, Blender now can export Binary, but still can't import ASCII, is that
correct?

Because if so: I'm still having to use Autodesk's FBX converter.

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On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Bastien Montagne <montagne29 at wanadoo.fr>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Sorry for all the commotion, I really did not expect that when writing
> the original mail! I needed to vent some frustration about FBX, but I
> had no intention of dropping support.
>
> I’m still maintaining current FBX add-on, and will keep doing this.
> Further more, I’m obviously available to help anyone who would like to
> work on this format, to get started with current code (which is
> everything but nice and simple), etc.
>
> Also, from Campbell & Ton's suggestion, I started a skeleton of testing
> suite (https://developer.blender.org/maniphest/task/edit/47400/) for
> FBX, The tests could help keeping a clear track of what is supported
> with which application. But we need stakeholders here, actual users of
> two or more of those tools that are willing to spend a bit of time on
> creating and checking tests!
>
> I will come back later (probably the code blog) with a more generic
> analysis and discussion about the future-proof formats we want to work
> on and support in Blender, also related to the 'interoperability' target
> of the 2.8 project.
>
> Laters,
> Bastien
>
>
> Le 12/02/2016 13:57, Ton Roosendaal a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Please let's end the thread now. This list is to help getting Blender
> developed, not to agree on everything in detail.
> >
> > Both FBX and COLLADA are being supported in Blender, nobody suggests to
> drop this.
> > We are only interested in getting the best IO possible. We'll check on
> Juan's work, and we'll check on how to handle FBX.
> >
> > On both topics we'll keep you informed, also on how to provide feedback
> for it.
> > Stay tuned!
> >
> > -Ton-
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
> > Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
> > Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands
> >
> >
> >
> >> On 12 Feb, 2016, at 12:55, Juan Linietsky <reduzio at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:29 AM, William Culver <wculver at cedeon.co.uk>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I know the format sucks and we have to reverse it to the point it could
> >>> break tomorrow anyway.  I think you greatly underestimate its
> necessity.. I
> >>> can point straight to more than 5 teenagers I know that downloaded
> blender
> >>> to make a game asset for UE4 and that's just my first hand knowledge.
>  I
> >>> think FBX export is one of the earliest things one does when dabbling
> in
> >>> blender and first impressions count.
> >>>   assets for game engines. As an exchange format between 3D
> >>>
> >> If Blender could export Collada properly for game engines, and Unreal 4
> >> supproted Collada, would it be enough reason for you to drop FBX?
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