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MSFS Blender2MSFS only exporting one texture set/UDIM/material (beginner question)

ikonane

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I have an airplane built for FSX/P3D with 12 UDIMs (Total of 12x3 textures).

In blender I've set up a material for each UDIM and assigned the three textures to each material. It looks correct in Blender but when I export I only get the first three (albedo, metallic and normal) textures and in MSFS2020 all of the parts of the airplane use the same first texture set.

How do I export all of the textures correctly?

Thanks!
 
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I've been having the same issue for a while and I believe it's a bug in MSFS. Assuming we're experiencing the same error, can you confirm the following:

  1. You select the appropriate textures in Blender2MSFS
  2. They render correctly in Blender
  3. The file names in Blender2MSFS material window are the same/duplicated (i.e. repeated texture1_albedo.png rather than texture2_albedo.png, texture3_albedo.png)
  4. The exported gITF file only contains the first texture (e.g. texture1_albedo.png) when you open it in a text editor.

I think the tool has a problem with similar file names and/or underscores where it stops reading beyond a certain point. The only way I've been able to work around this so far is to add a, b or c etc at the end of the filename so I end up with texture1_albedoa.png, texture2_albedob.png, texture3_albedoc.png. It's really ugly work workflow but is the only thing that works for me.

I came here to report this but I'm not sure if Blender2MSFS is still under active development or not.
 
ikonane

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Halfcard said:
I've been having the same issue for a while and I believe it's a bug in MSFS. Assuming we're experiencing the same error, can you confirm the following:

  1. You select the appropriate textures in Blender2MSFS
  2. They render correctly in Blender
  3. The file names in Blender2MSFS material window are the same/duplicated (i.e. repeated texture1_albedo.png rather than texture2_albedo.png, texture3_albedo.png)
  4. The exported gITF file only contains the first texture (e.g. texture1_albedo.png) when you open it in a text editor.

I think the tool has a problem with similar file names and/or underscores where it stops reading beyond a certain point. The only way I've been able to work around this so far is to add a, b or c etc at the end of the filename so I end up with texture1_albedoa.png, texture2_albedob.png, texture3_albedoc.png. It's really ugly work workflow but is the only thing that works for me.

I came here to report this but I'm not sure if Blender2MSFS is still under active development or not.
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You're the best!!

I did a quick test and it seemed to work!
Changed the naming of the textures from "AJS37_1001_FF_albedo_2048" and "AJS37_1002_RF_albedo_2048" to "AJS37_1001_A_FF" and "AJS37_1002_A_RF".

Thank you very much! I would never have figured this out myself!
 
RicherSims

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@Halfcard @ikonane I am also trying to use UDIMs (teaching myself for the first time) but I'm a bit confused.
My textures are named Terminal.1001.png, Terminal.1002.png, etc.
If I change the name to Terminal.1001_a.png, Terminal.1002_b.png, etc... then Blender no longer recognizes them as part of UDIM set when I attempt to place them in the albedo slot of the MSFS standard material. Instead it only imports 1 texture and applies it to the entire model instead of importing all 4 and applying each one to the relevant areas.

Halfcard said:
The file names in Blender2MSFS material window are the same/duplicated (i.e. repeated texture1_albedo.png rather than texture2_albedo.png, texture3_albedo.png)
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Where exactly do you see the duplication in the Blener2MSFS material window? I am confused and cannot find this.

Here is what my Blender window looks like after I select the first texture in the UDIM set and Blender successfully imports the rest automatically.
As you can see under my MSFS Material Params on the right, I do not see multiple textures with the same name. I only see one listed.
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RicherSims said:
@Halfcard @ikonane I am also trying to use UDIMs (teaching myself for the first time) but I'm a bit confused.
My textures are named Terminal.1001.png, Terminal.1002.png, etc.
If I change the name to Terminal.1001_a.png, Terminal.1002_b.png, etc... then Blender no longer recognizes them as part of UDIM set when I attempt to place them in the albedo slot of the MSFS standard material. Instead it only imports 1 texture and applies it to the entire model instead of importing all 4 and applying each one to the relevant areas.


Where exactly do you see the duplication in the Blener2MSFS material window? I am confused and cannot find this.

Here is what my Blender window looks like after I select the first texture in the UDIM set and Blender successfully imports the rest automatically.
As you can see under my MSFS Material Params on the right, I do not see multiple textures with the same name. I only see one listed.
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Why are you naming your textures "Terminal.1001.png"? It's possible the exporter is only seeing "Terminal" as you have a decimal point after that which is not a good way to name files. Replace Terminal.1001 with Terminal_1001 and see if that fixes the problem.
 
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Anthony31 said:
Why are you naming your textures "Terminal.1001.png"? It's possible the exporter is only seeing "Terminal" as you have a decimal point after that which is not a good way to name files. Replace Terminal.1001 with Terminal_1001 and see if that fixes the problem.
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This is the standard naming convention for UDIMS within Blender.
I have tried using ".' instead of "_".
It makes no difference.
 
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RicherSims said:
This is the standard naming convention for UDIMS within Blender.
I have tried using ".' instead of "_".
It makes no difference.
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I see. I've never used UDIM.

I don't know if the blender2msfs tool supports UDIM and it's possible that MSFS doesn't support them either (as it seems the gltf format doesn't support UDIM). You may have to separate your textures out to individual materials, one for each texture file. Reading the original post it seems this is what the poster did ("I've set up a material for each UDIM") but they had a problem with texture naming after that.
 
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It seems the posters above have indeed identified the only way to do it.
One must bake each UDIM tile to a separate texture, create a separate material for each texture, apply the new separate materials to the object instead of using the single UDIM material set, and then export your object.

The tedious part was moving your UVs to within the texture space for every UV tile that you needed to bake, as Blender does not yet support baking/exporting UDIMS natively.
Thankfully there is a very useful tool called UDIM Baker built by Alfonso Annarumma & Asger Suhr Langhoff which makes this a breeze:
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