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Importing a File Containing Two Objects from Blender into Unity Leads to a Single GameObject Not Two
I have two separate objects in a Blender file (say a cube and a sphere). Unity import this file (OBJ type) as a single gameObject which is not want I want. I want cube and sphere to be two separate ...
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How do modern game engines achieve real-time rendering vs Blender's “slow” rendering?
I'm new to both gamedev and Blender, and there's something I can't shake:
In Blender, a single render (even using the more advanced Cycles renderer) can take up to 45 seconds on my machine. But ...
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Monogame Dragging 3D object edges
I am having trouble rendering 3D models with monogame.
The problem only occurs when I export the object from blender with two materials on it. Example:
Monogame sees those two different materials ...
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Animated character bobbing around instead of joints flexing
I have a skeleton avatar that has a simple Mocap animation applied to it but instead of the joints bending the skeleton bobs around "doing" doing the animation. The process in which I made this avatar ...
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How to import camera from Blender into Unity3D
I have a few cameras in Blender to export to Unity3D. They're exported as empty GameObjects, and that's what is expected. The idea is to have the main camera be a child of one of the camera empty ...
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Are environments built in external applications or in Unity?
Totally new to game development here– I know models are never built in Unity, but what about environments? Is it common to say, build an office building environment with hallways and doors (sans ...
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Using Blender Shape Keys with Mecanim
Is it possible to use shape keys with mecanim?
Below is an image of a shape key I made (for experimental purposes only :)) in Blender, and here's the same armature and mesh in Unity. It completely ...
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Locating different models in a single scene
I have a curiosity.
Say I wanted to create a big forest using Blender, in this forest I'd like to have a campfire or several campfires. What I could do is create the entire scene in Blender with ...
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ArmA 3 LOD design for a structure?
I've designed and textured a house, and I now want to port it over to ArmA 3. I'm using blender to design it.
When looking at tutorials, everyone seems to emphasize the LOD, which means Level of ...
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Best format for model with double UV sets
I'd like to use first UV set as wrapping (or when some faces cover another on UV) diffuse color map and second UV set as baked ambient occlusion (packed to islands) map. It is possibly to use FBX or ...
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Step by step 3D Game Design in Unity [closed]
My main question is related to 3D game design for Unity, but please let me introduce my idea so that you can understand what I really mean.
I am very eager to develop an adventurous - travel 3D game (...
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How can I make Maya or Blender model work with mecanim?
I'm working on a simple game project, where I need a stick figure. Due to being stubborn and the desire to learn a new skill, I want to make the stick figure myself! I have followed several tutorials ...
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Blender->Unity materials problem
I have a pproblem with materials and their texture. I have a model with 1 material called 'Car_Jack', after i put my .blend file into unity, unity adds 'Car_Jack__Car_Jack_UV', which is white material ...
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How do I combine mesh to all move together with an armature?
I can't figure out how to make all these parts move together. I joined them, however, they are still separate? How do I make my model move its parts together?
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UV mapping in blender for use with Unreal Engine material
I have a room that I want to import in Unreal Engine 4.
When I do it, I apply a material to the walls (for example), and the walls look like this:
My question is, how can I map the object to the ...
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Creating a smooth transition between materials on large models using Unity and/or Blender
Im not sure if this is possible or not... I would like to create a smooth transitiom(crossfade) between two textures on a 3d model made in Blender that can be imported to Unity. For example if I ...
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Single object decreasing frame rate from 60 to 5
I'm new to game development and I'm not sure what I've done wrong. My game runs at about 60 frames per second until I add one instance of a model I made in Blender. As soon as I add it the frame rate ...
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How to export an animation from blender to Ethan (third person character) in unity 5
I've made a human animation in blender with the intention of exporting it into unity to add to the animations of the third person character 'Ethan'. Does any one know how I can export the animation ...
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Restrict render in Blender is not working
I click "Restrict renderability", so that everything except the item I want to export is grayed out. However, it still exports lights and everything when I import it into Unity.
How can I fix this?
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Regarding BGE (Blender Game Engine), is it possible to generate a single .exe file from multiple files linked together?
Would any of you guys or gals know the answer, please?
I know one can generate a .exe (windows executable) file from a single blend file. My question is very simple: Can anyone generate a single .exe ...
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A Good Starting Point? [closed]
I have had an interest in Game Development for a long time now but have always had the perception that it was heavily "art based" and I have never been great at drawing/sketching. After finding the ...
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Deleting faces or triangles from an object by material on load scene
I have objects that have multiple materials imported from blender as a .FBX.
I'd like to find the objects where materials are used, and destroy faces when a certain material name is used ("!null", in ...
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Import Material from blender into unity Export FBX
There have been several questions like this but nothing that is quite the same. I've noticed when Mixamo can create models with materials attached in their FBX.
I'm trying to do the same in blender, ...
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How to voxelize a height map?
Lets say I make a height map and I want to make it out of CUBES to use in my game. I dont want to generate anything procedualy, I just want to cubify a height map. So I just want a static mesh.
I also ...
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Unity Light passing through solid mesh made in blender
I am trying to figure out why light is passing through a solid mesh I created in blender.
The geometry is simple:
Cube with a bevel that has a 4 inner faces extruded transformed inward and scaled.
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Imported model from Blender stops updating after applying scripts
I am new to Unity3D and I am trying to import a model from Blender. I save the .blend file inside the assets folder and everything works well. I drag and drop my model and apply textures, colliders ...
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Preparing a 2D character to export from Blender to Unity?
I'm an animator for a game currently, and I don't have Unity (can't download due to too much gigs coupled with slow internet,) but the game designer told me I can use Blender to export animations into ...
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Unity - Small holes of light seems to go through my blender mesh
So, I am currently working on a low-poly terrain in Blender which will be flat-shaded in Unity. It all works great, however I am working on a cave for the terrain, and I seem to be getting these small ...
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Importing a skinned model from Blender to Monogame
I would like to import FBX character animation from Blender to Monogame using a custom skinned model processor (which I created with this tutorial).
However, when I try to import a model(for example ...
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Importing animated Collada from blender to monogame c#
I have some problems with rendering animated Collada files in monogame. I understand animated skeletons, but in Blender is way to animated without making skeletons. Let's say, I want to make a ...
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Getting the material name or index from a Blender FBX model in MonoGame
I've imported Blender FBX models in to UE4 before, so I'm aware that some of the material information is saved in the model. How do I go about accessing this in MonoGame?
To be clear, I don't ...
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Awkward shape causing issues with join, from Blender to Unreal Engine 4
https://imgur.com/a/sQzLG
^ - the pictures should tell more than I can with words.
I've created a shape that is best described as a "Tetraforce." It's a 3d object made out of 4 regular tetrahedrons.
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Parenting a child object to parent in Unity
I am making an 3d Tennis game in Unity 5.0. I have made 3d model of the Tennis player in Makehuman and have successfully imported it to Blender and Unity.
I want to add an tennis racket in the hand ...
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Unity 5 - Importing models with multitextured materials
I have a file Blender model of a tree. It consists of some branches and lots foliage, nothing unusual.
The foliage consists of a single material, which consists of 2 textures, a diffuse and lower ...
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Blender arm rig not working the way it should
I just bought a pair of arms from the unity asset store and imported them into blender, the IK seems to work just fine untill i use a Child of constraint on another bone(which is supposed to be a ...
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Blender assets management and workflow for Unity project
I'm trying to decide how to manage my 3D assets, and even how I should construct a world for my game.
I should maybe explain, my game is basically a single explorable world set in a school. It's ...
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Problems with imported model animation from Blender to Unity
I've downloaded a free sculpted arm and created my own rig and animation for it in Blender. So here is how it looks like in Blender :
And the model itself looks fine in Unity, but as soon as the ...
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How can I fix the face/normal direction of my 3d mesh in blender/UE4?
So I am playing around with UE4 to make some concept art for a game. I extracted the model I wanted to use from the game's files and imported it into blender. It's a tank with 4 parts: the hull, the ...
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Best way to do headshot decapitation?
I'm using UE4 and blender. I was wondering what the process is of preparing in the 3D software and then making a head burst animation upon headshot. I don't want to do destructible meshes because they ...
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Upgrading Unity from 5.1 to 5.3.4 has broken game, specifically models made in Blender
I recently decided to upgrade Unity after putting it off for some time as I have a rather sizable project started in 5.1. I knew there would be some hurdles, however, I have had very little luck in ...
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Why aren't .blend files importing into unity?
So I for the past week or so I have been having extreme difficulty trying to import .blend file that I made into unity. When I either drag or import the .blend file into unity I automatically get a ...
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How to export fbx mode file to Spritekit in iOS
Model does't show up in SpriteKit in iOS.
I need some help to export fbx file to SpriteKit in iOS.
Here is the code to load the fbx file to scene in iOS.
SCNScene *scene = [SCNScene sceneNamed:@"...
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Can't load own .obj-files from Blender to DX11
I'm currently trying to import objects to my game. My problem is that I'm able to load objects from online-sites but it doesn't work for my own objects. It gives me an error:
Debug assertion failes....
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Blender to Unity, Specular Hardness/Smoothness Texture
In Unity there's a parameter for specularity (both modes) - Smoothness... I don't know what it corresponds to in Blender. You can bake two specularity maps: color and intensity, and at first I naively ...
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How to reduce polycount for game objects?
I am an intermediate in Blender, and I have always noticed that as the polycount increases to more than 20,000 polygons, Blender starts to slow down and I am not able to sculpt properly.
My PC is ...
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Roofs not appearing in Unity
My buildings are fine until I import them to Unity. None of the formats I've come across( FBX, DAE, 3DS Max, Blender Files, any of the Autocad formats, OBJ, PRJ, WRL etc.), have roofs when importing ...
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Modern OpenGL c++ obj loader
So i made a obj loader in c++.I used blender to export my files.
I tried to draw 2 squares(one perpendicular to the other) and when im looking at them from above some weird black triangles apear, ...
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Blender to Unreal or Unity - will combining animations into one clip for a parent object to store effect workflow?
Hey so I have a gun and a set of rigged hands in blender, and I was wondering if I made a parent object for the gun, hands and everything, took all the animations respectively (such as right hand ...
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Modern OpenGL project in c++ .obj loader
I want to create a class in c++ that loads a model with the obj format.The model gets generated from Blender(3D modeling program).When i try do draw something on the screen without the class(all the ...
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Blender to UE4 mobile
My 3D models and animation vanishes when I preview it using the mobile view port. However they work just fine for the desktop viewport.
I usually model the characters using MakeHuman and import them ...
