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Missing materials and. Blend file importing error when importing to MCX

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Hi, I'm stuck in my project and if someone can help me to fix these errors it will be a huge relief to me. I get below Error when I try to importing a .blend file.

" AssimpReader Error importing file: BLEND: Expected at least one object with no parent"

Things may gonna help you,

1.I tried Blender2P3dFsx tool set first. But it didn't worked out and material format is basically turned to Blendr2p3dfsx PBR material format and I didn't change that when importing.

2.I'm using P3DV4.4SDk because I intend to make my model PBR for P3D V4.5
3.I tried exporting as collada (.dae) and wavefront (.obj) but they both imported to MCX with no materials.

4.Wavefront import gave me below types of errors regarding materials.

1.OBJReader Warning Failed to find material
Internal_and_decal_1

2.OBJReader Warning Unsupported element l

5.Some textures are in DDS DXT5 format while other textures are in PNG/JPG format.
Please instruct me how to fix these issues and what was I doing wrong. Thanks in advanced.

Have a good day!
 
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Hi,

MCX uses an 3rd party library to read blend files. It seems that library can't read your file.

Do you have a mtl file when you export to wavefront? That files contains the material definitions of the model. If also COLLADA gives no materials it might be your problem is in blender actually. But I'm not an expert in using blender.
 
arno said:
Hi,

MCX uses an 3rd party library to read blend files. It seems that library can't read your file.

Do you have a mtl file when you export to wavefront? That files contains the material definitions of the model. If also COLLADA gives no materials it might be your problem is in blender actually. But I'm not an expert in using blender.
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yeah. Mtl file is there. Model have textures showing just fine in blender. I suspect that might due to node setup created by Blender2p3dfsx addone. Probably some materials aren't readable by MCX.
 
If you are only using materials in blender the the toolset wouldn't be needed. With just materials, MCX shouldn't have a problem since materials are just colors. Materials aren't textures.

Have you uv unwrapped? If so the textures are handled by that way. An OBJ file or even FBX could be used to import into MCX with textures.
 
Pyscen said:
If you are only using materials in blender the the toolset wouldn't be needed. With just materials, MCX shouldn't have a problem since materials are just colors. Materials aren't textures.

Have you uv unwrapped? If so the textures are handled by that way. An OBJ file or even FBX could be used to import into MCX with textures.
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Thank you. Yes with just the base colors it works fine. In my case these materials include metallic , normal and detail maps. So it's not just a color. It's a PBR material. All UV unwrapped. I was thinking to make materials PBR in MCX otherthan doing it in blender.
 
If you go the PBR route then I would go with the toolset through Blender. If you need farther assistance, pm me or through the Blender sub-forum.
 
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