I’m very new to UE4 and I might just lack the knowledge of how to correctly import FBX-files to UE4, but I’m importing the meshes just as the UE4 tutorials say but it never works. Not a single FBX or OBJ file has ever been imported with working textures. I’ve tried roughly 15 - 20 different models, all import fine and so does the textures but the previews are all white (and the FBX mesh icon and the texture/material icon all have a white asterisk on them).
I’ve literally scavenged the internet for anyone who might have a solution to this, and I’ve put in hours to try to fix this already - but my knowledge of UE4 is limited and I’d really appreciate any (!) help I could get fixing this.
Below you’ll find a screenshot of how the materials and the mesh look in the Content Browser, and how the model look in the Viewfinder after being placed in the world. [Note: This happens to all FBX models I import, not just this one].
I can see how you models look in you 3d program. But, if your model properly textured and in UE in import dialog “Import Material” and “Import Texture” is checked, and you get white material without texture, this means that material assigned in you 3d programm not supported FBX translator (f.e. mental ray material or vray material). Try to check materials in 3d program and fix it, if it does not conform to this guide:
The options “Import Material” and “Import Texture” are checked, yes.
None of these models are actually my own - they are all bought and/or freeware & downloaded from CGtrader and other similar sites. I do not have a 3D program installed on my system.
But statistically at least one of the 15-20 FBX’s I’ve imported should have worked, right? I can’t separately import textures because in many cases the textures are compressed in to the actual FBX-file.
So, basically, in my case since I’m not a modeler / 3D artist; I can’t purchase/download FBX models and use in UE4 - unless the texture & model are separate?
I export model with texture to the FBX file with embed media, and imported to UE4 without problem. Maybe FBX not contain textures or texture format not supported UE4. If you import FBX with embed media, FBXImport plugin create folder named similar base file and with suffix “.fbm” in same place where you placed FBX. And in this folder you can find embed texture, which you can import separatly and attach to shader in UE4.
I ran into this as well and thought I’d share my solution. Maybe it’s the same for you, maybe not.
All settings were correct on my fbx export, and on my Unreal import, however every time I brought in a mesh, no matter how many different settings I tried would never bring in the textures files along with it. It also completely lost the scale of the UVS within Maya which I discovered after manually trying to add them back.
When looking in the hypershade, all of my files linked up correctly, they were all being pulled from /sourceimages/ in my project.
What fixed my problem, was changing the “/sourceimages/texturename.tga” to “sourceimages/texturename.tga” (removing the first /)
Before exporting everything, when I received the file from an artist, I went through and manually updated the location by typing it in (changing c:\user\whateverlocation\texturename.tga to \sourceimages\texturename.tga) and for some reason, even though they were correctly linked, and showing in Maya, they weren’t registering as being there.
I have same problem. when i tries to put a texture on my FBX imported object it just shows an ugly color. Can someone help me??? Please give the help as soon as possible i have only 3 weeks to be done with my school project.
When exporting the fbx, you get a file [modelname.fbx] and a separate folder [/modelname] containing its textures. I manually placed the fbx into its texture folder and then imported.
Voila! not sure why this isn’t an automated process, but it works!
Has anybody found a solution to this problem? I tried putting it into the folder that the textures were in but that didn’t seem to work. I’m not sure if I fully understood that.
The textures that I apply to my imported FBX model are just showing as colors and actually have no texture at all.
Please help if you have a solution!
Has anybody found a solution to this problem? I tried putting it into the folder that the textures were in but that didn’t seem to work. I’m not sure if I fully understood that.
The textures that I apply to my imported FBX model are just showing as colors and actually have no texture at all.
Please help if you have a solution!
Select the model and go to the materials tab in the inspector. Click on the “Extract Textures” option and choose the 192.168.l00.1 destination folder. This will extract the textures from the FBX file and in my case they are applied automatically.
