Does Modo need a special .FBX exporter?

MeshMagnet · Aug 2014

Any Modo/UE4 users out there have any special instructions for exporting out an .fbx file from Modo?

Are there any third party exporter plugins that I should know about?

Ramseus · Aug 2014

My modo has fbx versions 2006.1, 2010, and 2013 for exporting. 2013 is just... not good. I always use 2010 and ignore the outdated fbx version warning because I've never had any issues with it.

Farfarer · Aug 2014

If you're using 801, you'll want to enable "Save smoothing groups" in the FBX I/O options.

It breaks Unity3D's importing of normals if it's enabled (issue with Unity's importer) which is why it's off by default.

Other than that, you shouldn't have any issues as far as I know.

Ramseus · Aug 2014

Oh yeah, I just remembered (because I just noticed it on some assets), the only issue I have with fbx2010 is that I get extra UV channels that are just copies of UV0 if I don't deleted my textures group before exporting. Don't know what that's about.

I'm still on 7, fwiw.

WarrenM · Aug 2014

2013 works great for me using MODO 801. Imports into UE4, no sweat...

Does Modo need a special .FBX exporter?

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