This update introduces a new import method for FBX files using ufbx. If the fbx2gltf import fails, it will use the most recently cached scene from the ufbx import. The process is sped up by introducing threads to load the ufbx portion.
Key changes include:
- Support for importing geometry helper nodes in FBX files.
- Addition of cameras and lights with updated names.
- Removal of the fbx importer manager.
- Introduction of ModelDocument3D and updates to its methods.
- Changes to FBX import options and visibility.
- Updating the documentation and handling some errors.
- Store the original non-unique node, mesh and animation names in FBX and glTF.
Co-Authored-By: bqqbarbhg <bqqbarbhg@gmail.com>
This importer was the fruit of a lot of amazing reverse engineering
work by RevoluPowered, based on the original Assimp importer that was
introduced by fire.
While promising and well tuned for a specific type of FBX scenes, it
was found to have many flaws to support the many FBX exporters and
legacy models that Godot users want to use. As we currently lack a
maintainer to improve it, those issues are left unresolved and FBX
import is still sub-par in the current Godot releases.
After some experimentation, we're instead adding a new importer that
relies on Facebook's `fbx2gltf` command line tool to convert FBX to
glTF, so that we can then use our well-maintained glTF importer.
See #59653 and https://github.com/facebookincubator/FBX2glTF for details.
Happy new year to the wonderful Godot community!
2020 has been a tough year for most of us personally, but a good year for
Godot development nonetheless with a huge amount of work done towards Godot
4.0 and great improvements backported to the long-lived 3.2 branch.
We've had close to 400 contributors to engine code this year, authoring near
7,000 commit! (And that's only for the `master` branch and for the engine code,
there's a lot more when counting docs, demos and other first-party repos.)
Here's to a great year 2021 for all Godot users 🎆
Ports FBX module from 3.2 branch to 4.0
This is the only time the plugin will be updated from 3.2 and marks the final time we do this, from now on we will backport FBX to 3.2 with fixes.
Changelog:
- fixed crash importing files with buggy format (because of bad newlines in ASCII data, this is yet to be fixed fully)
- fixed const correctness with C++/C version change
- rewrote material handling to be simpler and better
- ports from 3.2 to 4.0 the fbx importer
