Import Blender Model - Assigning Materials

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Hello all,

I've created a basic object inside of Blender, and have UV Mapped a custom texture to it. It all looks great inside of Blender, but upon dropping it inside of Unity it has the default material.

I unwrapped my object inside of Blender, then aligned it to a UV map I created in Photoshop CS5. It renders perfectly inside of Blender.

I'm accustomed to online forums and user etiquette, so I spent a few hours searching for a solution. Here's what I have tried:

Saving .blend file directly into the Unity Project file, then dropping it inside the editor.

Exporting Blender model as a .fbx file, and dropping it inside of the editor.

Both options have produced the same result. The model inside of Unity has the default material.

May someone please offer a bit of advice concerning importing an asset into Unity whilst keeping the same attributes inside of the 3D modeling program.

Side Note: Would using Maya have better results? I have Maya(legit version) but prefer Blender for simple tasks.

Thanks in advance for all advice received.

Have a great day!

-Joshua4missions

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Answer by duclaw · Aug 02, 2013 at 07:35 AM

you have to do that manually

go to the place where you original texture file is stored and bring it into unity
go to the materials folder and click on the material there should be a place where you can select textures
select the texture that you imported and voila its done

Hope this helps you it caused me a lot of frustration when I didn't know it, cheers

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Answer by Joshua4missions · Aug 02, 2013 at 05:16 AM

Still looking for an answer. Thanks for taking some of your valuable time to view this thread. :)

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Answer by musaranya · Jan 08, 2014 at 03:34 PM

Hi,

I had the same problem until yesterday. The main problem is that Unity can't find the texture files referenced inside the .fbx export file. To solve it, I make the fbx export from Blender as allways (UV mapping etc) and then, BEFORE IMPORTING IT TO UNITY, I open this fbx file with the tool Autodesk FBX Converter. It allows you to embed the referenced textures into the fbx file itself, and pack it as binary. Finally, I take this new fbx file and import it to Unity and it runs perfect.

Hope it helps

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