Creating a file exporter
To export the scene, ImportExport() calls SaveScene():
// Save the scene.
r = SaveScene(lSdkManager, // Use this manager...
lScene, // to export this scene...
ExportFileName, // to this path/filename...
pWriteFileFormat, // using this file format.
false); // Don't embed media files, if any.
SaveScene() follows much the same pattern as LoadScene(), so we’ll only look at some key differences.:
bool SaveScene(
KFbxSdkManager* pSdkManager,
KFbxScene* pScene,
const char* pFilename,
int pFileFormat,
bool pEmbedMedia
)
... // Similar to LoadScene()
ImportExport is a file conversion program, so normally the file format of the export file is going to be different from the import file.
The user interface for ImportExport doesn’t ask the user for the file format of the import file: it just asks for the path and name of the file, and then lets FBX determine the file format.
But for the export file, ImportExport’s user interface lets the user specify the file format. The file format was passed to ImportExport() as a parameter, and ImportExport() passed it on to SaveScene():
// Set the file format
lExporter->SetFileFormat(pFileFormat);
Specifying whether media are embedded
SaveScene() also has a boolean parameter, pEmbedMedia. This specifies how FBX handles any media (textures, sound, movies, etc.) in the scene to be exported. There are two choices:
When imported by any program that uses FBX SDK, embedded media files are extracted into \filename.fbm, a subdirectory of the directory where the FBX file filename.fbx is stored. \filename.fbm is created if it does not already exist.