The following list outlines
the current limitations for FBX import:
- Password protected FBX files cannot be
imported in Composite.
- You cannot selectively import assets
from the FBX file; Composite imports everything it recognizes.
- By default, the geometry import tool
imports all meshes of the scene into a single layer. However, you
can select which geometry to import.
- The geometry tool imports the global
transformation of the geometry in Composite; its bakes the transformation
of its parent hierarchy into the mesh.
- Composite doesn't support multiple UV
coordinate on a vertex,; it only imports the first (index 0) diffuse
set of coordinates.
- FBX animation curves are recalculated
into a Composite animation with one keyframe at each frame.
- If the FBX scene contains more than one
camera, the format of the resulting composition (and the Reaction
node) is based on the render settings of the default camera.
- The camera image plane distance, its
size on aperture, the camera focal length and the horizontal scale
are all animatable values in FBX, but the transformation of the
imported plane layer in Composite is not animated.
- The image plane offset values which controls
how much the center of the image plane is offset from the centre
of the viewing frustum of the camera are not supported by the FBX
import.
- The camera image plane layer cannot be
created correctly if Composite doesn't have access or cannot import
the asociated image files, because it needs to know the image resolution
to scale the plane layer in Reaction. Also, the Image Import tool
cannot store the path of an image sequence that doesn't exist.
- Parameters that control the amount of
the source image that is used in the camera image plane are not
supported.
- Target cameras are not supported.
- Once the Maya camera image plane is imported
in Composite, it is no longer a “camera” image plane (one that automatically
rescales itself to fit the cam¬era view), just a simple image plane
parented by the camera and properly scaled for the current depth
of the plane.