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Blender export causes Substance Painter "Missing seams on hard edges" error
It's rather a specific problem, I downloaded a model of a gun from the official CS2 workshop tools (provided by devs) for skin makers (Also, just to clarify, you got to understand that I can't change ...
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Why I'm getting artifacts with normals of exported mesh?
I've created mesh and exported it in unreal engine 5, where I'm getting strange artifacts like this:
when in Blender it looks okay:
I thought the problem could be in normals, but looks like there is ...
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Nif export - Normals shared problem
Need help for an unsolvable problem.
I use Blender to edit a cycle frame from the Pro Cycling manager game (PCM).
File in PCM is a .nif. I can import in Blender with Niftool.
File is a scene with 5 ...
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Export normals as image
I'm making a 2D game, and I use models and render them as png in various angles. Thing is, since they are models, I'd like to be able to export the normals in png. I found a way to put the normals as ...
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how to displace a mesh (in viewport) with a texture without changing the vertex normals direction?
I'm trying to displace a geometry while keeping the original vertex normal's direction, I need the effect to be achieved in viewport since the mesh must be exported into a game engine.
The only way I ...
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Getting vertex and normal indices to match when exporting mesh?
I am exporting a model as an obj. I want to store one normal per vertex, meanin I want the index of the normal and the vertex to be the same. I am getting this on my exported file:
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Normals flipped when exporting to FBX?
I'm running the latest version of blender. Almost every time I export a model into FBX, the normals of the imported model become flipped. I've been looking up how to solve this, but nothing seems to ...
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Different values for split normals depending on face/triangle
I'm writing an exporter for an old game file format that only supports one normal per vertex. This requires creating duplicates for each vertex (or rather, loop) that has split normals. The problem I'...
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How to serialize Mesh Normals? [Both Split Normals and Averaged]
I'm trying to write a JSON Serializer in Blender that can be loaded in Unity3D. I'm having an issue with getting the same normal data as represented in the Blender ViewPort.
Assuming I'm starting with ...
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Smoothing groups issue
I'm using blender 3.1.0 and im trying to export an object via FBX to 3d max along with its smoothing groups. And this always USED to be possible from what I remember. Here is the usual process.
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I'm having issues with getting the correct Normal values for my Roblox mesh exporter
I've been trying to make a Roblox Mesh 1.0 exporter, and I'm nearly there, but I have encountered one problem that's causing a lot of annoying lighting issues: the float values for the Normals are not ...
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Exporting with .fbx does weird stuff for me
I've been racking my brain and searching the internet, but maybe someone here can help me out!
I have this object that has an image texture on it. And when I export it to FBX (with copy and embed ...
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Why does my exported file have transparent faces and jumbled texture?
I completed a project and exported it as an fbx. I open the file in a new blender project to test it and the faces are transparent. I have searched all over the internet to figure out why this is ...
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Wrong looking normal map \ Missing Custom Split Normals on Export
I spent last 2 full days trying to figure that out, and no luck.
I have low poly and high poly version of my model. Low poly is triangulated beacuse i want to texture it in Substance Painter. I baked ...
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Why does blender output vec4 tangents for GLTF?
I've been trying to integrate both GLTF 2.0 and blender into my asset pipeline for my custom renderer. I noticed some strange normal artifacts when normal mapping. So I go to look at my tinygltf code,...
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Geometry Nodes and Exporting (Creating a mesh) in Blender 2.92
I'm trying to export Geometry Nodes geometry to an FBX.
When I import the file elsewhere, though , there don't seem to be any normals associated with the Geometry Nodes object. Typically, I'm able to ...
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Is there a way to control smoothing groups in blender?
I'm trying to export a model from Blender to FBX format I'm using auto smooth with weighted normal modifier set to 50, and for some reason, I'm not sure why when my client inspect the model in 3ds he ...
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Imported model from Steam version of Fuse has flipped faces when rendered. Flipping normals does not work
The title mostly describes the issue I have with Blender 2.8. When exporting the model from the Steam version of Fuse, I export it as a .OBJ file and box appears with multiple options:
Export in new ...
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Flipped Normals after export [duplicate]
My problem is that after I export my meshes to Ue4 it shows me that the normals are flipped. I tried both way, flipped and not flipped normals. This is what I get every time.
Any tips what I might be ...
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Normals of Mesh is in correct in Face Orientation but wrong in Quixel Mixer and UE4
So my mesh in Blender 2.8 is shown to be correctly oriented, but when imported into Quixel Mixer or UE4, it's the opposite.
I tried to simply flip the normals but it didn't really work well with ...
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Why is blender exporting face normals instead of vertex normals?
According to this question: Why OBJ export writes face normals instead of vertex normals
Whether the final obj uses vertex normals or face normals depends on the choice of shading.
However I always ...
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Why does applying smoothness to a mesh reduce the number of vertices?
I was playing around with Blender meshes and importing them into Unity when I made an interesting discovery. In the tool shelf, under "Shading", there is a Smooth button and a Flat button. Now I ...
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Why OBJ export writes face normals instead of vertex normals
I am confused by the content of OBJ Blender exports. When I export a (default) cube object (8 vertices, 6 faces) to OBJ and then inspect the OBJ file, the "vn" entries obviously correspond to face ...
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How to enable auto smooth option for unreal engine?
When i export my object into ue4 it looks awful without auto smooth option
I see auto smooth is disabled in unreal engine. Is this possible to enable auto smooth for unreal engine ?
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Export custom normals
I am writing an importer and exporter for a custom binary format.
In this format I have triangulated mesh. Each vertex has position, normal, and UV.
The importer code sets them like this and it is ...
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Exporting a model to be read by Assimp
I'm trying to create some low-poly models for my game and I'm trying to learn some Blender basics. I can create a model and export it to Wavefront or Collada and I'm able to import it into my code ...
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Unable to export per vertex data to wavefront
I am trying to reconstruct a cube with normals that look like in the very first animation in the "Introducing normals" part of this article.
If I start out with the default cube, smooth the faces and ...
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Face disappearing when imported to Unity (Not Normals)
I have search through multiple threads for an answer to this, but I can't seem to fix it. I am having a problem where a face in my model is disappearing upon being imported to Unity. I checked my ...
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Why does armature change normals in UE4?
After hours of testing, I've encountered a strange problem.
I have an animated scifi table asset I've imported into UE4. I've also imported the exact same asset without animation. Both assets were ...
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Transparent model when exporting fbx file to Unity [duplicate]
So I have this shark model which I animated and ready to export it on fbx and transport it to Unity.
But When I put it on Unity, It looks transparent like this.
Many of the solutions online say that ...
