FBX properties: class KFbxProperty

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FBX includes a property system that allows strongly typed data to be dynamically added to FBX objects.

Although you can create your own data types and your own properties, let’s begin by looking at what you can do with the properties that are already built in to FBX SDK classes. Here, for example, are a few properties of class KFbxNode:

Extract from the reference page for class KFbxNode

An FBX property:

Can be queried using the methods of class KFbxProperty (e.g., Get(), Set()).
Has a name.
Is implemented as a template class. Has a data type that must be specified.
Can have a data type that is created at run time. See, for example, sample program ExportScene05.
Can only be set to a value that is valid for the property’s data type. There are some conversions supported: for example, if a double is required but an int is specified, the int is converted to a double, and the property is set to the double.
Has a set of flags.
Can be used to manage the connections between FBX objects.
Can have connections to other properties (see FBX connections).
Can be cloned.

You can query an FBX object to:

Determine whether it has an FBX property with a specified name.
Obtain all its FBX properties.

NoteIn this documentation, an FBX property refers to an object that is instantiated from class KFbxProperty. Not all properties of an FBX object are implemented as FBX properties, however.