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Processing FBX files that contain embedded media

Managing textures and other media files

Managing materials

 

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Processing scene files with references to media

ASCII FBX files, OBJ files, and other FBX-supported file formats cannot contain embedded media. Moreover, you can create binary FBX files that need media files, but set the export option so that the files are not embedded. In these cases, the file will retain the addresses of the media files.

Then you must make sure that FBX for QuickTime (or 3ds Max, Maya, or any other application that you use to render or otherwise process the scene) can find those media.

Here is how FBX SDK searches for each non-embedded media file in, for example, an ASCII FBX file:

• First, FBX SDK uses the absolute path\filename specified in the FBX file. This was set when the program that exported the file called SetFileName():

// Resource file must be in the application's directory.

KString lTexPath = gAppPath + "\\Crate.jpg";

...

gTexture->SetFileName(lTexPath.Buffer());

• Then, if it does not find the media file in the absolute path, FBX SDK uses the relative path\filename. When the FBX file was exported, FBX SDK had determined the relative path\filename (i.e., relative to the FBX file) of the media file, and stored it in the FBX file.