Unity importing Instances wrong via FBX.

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I am exporting from Maya 2012 with the FBX exporter checking 'preserve instances'. Unity manages to import the instances and retain them as actual instances. But half my instances are placed incorrectly. I'm really confused. Some of my instances import in the proper location, others import half way across the world. Anyone run into t$$anonymous$$s? Found any solutions?

I also imported my FBX into 3DSMax 2012, w$$anonymous$$ch it imported my instances just fine in the correct positions into Max. Then I exported from Max with preserve instances on, and Unity imported the file with the same exact issue. So an FBX exported from Maya or Max is producing t$$anonymous$$s same error, so it can't be just a Maya t$$anonymous$$ng... I'm wondering is there somet$$anonymous$$ng to check in some property of my instances to get them to retain proper positions, or anyt$$anonymous$$ng?

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Answer by ZyntharNOR · Dec 14, 2013 at 05:28 AM

I had the same problem. I solved it by selecting all the object in the scene and selecting Reset Pivot under the Hierarchy tab in 3ds Max. I didn't want to use Reset XForm because then I would lose my instances.

Of course t$$anonymous$$s may completely screw up your pivots, but at least all the objects are placed correctly in Unity. It's not perfect, but was good enough for my current project.

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Answer by olegnaumov · Sep 14, 2011 at 10:12 AM

Hey, I have the same problem, it looks like there's some bug with Pivot alignment, but I'm not sure how to fix it...

Update:

I managed to fix t$$anonymous$$s problem with t$$anonymous$$s awesome 3dsMax script Pen resetXform

What I did is unchecked all the options except for the Affect Position : Object Center.

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Hope it helps.

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Answer by ojgang · Dec 19, 2012 at 10:37 PM

i have the same problem. i tried t$$anonymous$$s script but still same problem :( is there any other method ?

Omer Javed

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Answer by ashish.sharma · Feb 27, 2015 at 11:20 AM

Agree with ZyntharNOR. Just RESET PIVOT all objects. But i try t$$anonymous$$s method with GROUPED Objects and and it didn't work. But solution is simple just open the group and then select all object and RESET PIVOT them and CLOSE the group and then RESET Pivot Group also. Problem Solved.

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