How to convert fbx file to J3o file

[Neo_Jedah]

How to convert fbx file to J3o file

[oxplay2]

24 days ago there was some topic:

[SOLVED] Import FBX

Hello, So I am very ignorant on this topic, I am not a 3d modeler. Disclaimer done. When prototyping, I like to use Daz models (mostly for the sake that they look good and I have access to a large daz library). Those will later get swapped out for custom models for the project. But right now I am playing with JME, and decided to see if I could get a genesis character working. I exported it as FBX, re-rigged and redid the materials in blender, then re-exported it back out as a FBX. I have nev…

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[tlf30]

Some tips from someone who fought this for much too long. The FBX support is limited based on what you are trying to import in your FBX. I personally needed mesh morphs, and was not having any luck, from my understanding, there are other FBX features that are also not yet implemented.
I did the approach of importing my FBX into blender, and exporting as glTF. The glTF as great support in jme. But there is a catch, glTF does not have great support in blender, unless you are running the beta, which has a strange issue importing FBX files.

So to do it:

• First, using the non-beta blender, import the FBX into a blender project and make any changes you want.

• Second, go grab the beta copy of blender.

• Third, open your blender project, if you do not see any materials on the model, this is fine it is blender beta not rendering them correctly.

• Fourth, export to glTF 2.

• Fifth: Do not use the JME SDK to perform the conversion of the glTF file to J3O, instead use this snippet of code:

    public void convertModel(String model, String name) {
        Spatial model1 = assetManager.loadModel(model);
        //Load new mesh
        File conversion = new File("conversions" + File.separator + name + ".j3o");
        BinaryExporter be = new BinaryExporter();
        try {
            be.save(model1, conversion);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
  

Then in your main run
convertModel("Models/myModel.gltf", "myModel")
(or what ever your model name is and where it is in your assets)
The model will be in a conversions folder in your project. Just copy it where ever you want.

EDIT: To clarify something I forgot. That snippet needs to be run on the master branch of jme.

[Darkchaos]

@tlf30

Fifth: Do not use the JME SDK to perform the conversion of the glTF file to J3O, instead use this snippet of code:

Just curious was there a bug with importing gltf? besides being unable to show the material when using a maven project?
Because the SDK should perform the exact same code.

[tlf30]

I was getting several errors in the console. I forgot to mention that I am using the master branch, which has a commit that fixes up some of the issues with glTF 2.

EDIT: @Darkchaos Perhaps it was because of this issue: (Which should be fixed in 3.2.x) J3MLoader warnings while loading glTF sample models · Issue #741 · jMonkeyEngine/jmonkeyengine · GitHub
I am having trouble remembering now…