In the meantime, feedback is of course welcomed, so please feel free to contact us on our forum.Last year, we unveiled the Unity FBX Exporter, giving creators the ability to round-trip scenes between Autodesk 3ds Max or Autodesk Maya and Unity. This plugin is still under development so expect updates.

Once this is done the materials become editable in the usual way.Īlternatively, you can simply swap the materials for new ones by dragging them to the relevant slot in the Remapped Materials section.

Click Extract Materials and choose the folder you wish to save them to.

You can do this by selecting the Prefab, going to the inspector, and clicking the Materials tab.

That’s pretty much it! If you need to edit the materials, you may need to extract them from the Prefab.

Then set the Transform values to 0 so that it matches the original position in the Max scene File.

A prefab from the FBX that contains the source geometry And Forest Pack object, which you can identify using the Forest Logo fbx files generated by the Forest Tools exporter to the Unity Content Browser, Alternatively you can right-click and select 'Import New Assets' You’re now ready to import the Forest Objects to Unity. These will soon be available on the Unity Asset store, but they’re also available from our website. Just drag the package to Unity's asset browser and follow the instructions to import. To import the assets exported in Step 1, you will need to install the plugin packages to your Unity project. You can choose a Unity Asset folder if you like and the scatter will automatically import into the project.

Click the elipsis button (.) to choose a save location.

Scroll down to near the bottom and click on Forest Exporter > Open.

You can also access this by clicking the button on the Forest toolbar. open Forest Tools from the Utilities panel.

Select one or more Forest Objects that you want to export.

fbx files to Unityįirst up let’s look at how to use Forest Tools to export a scatter from 3DS Max. fbx files that contain the source geometry. forest file that contains the distribution information and. The basic procedure for sending a scatter to a unity project involves 3 steps Forest Pack 7 includes some changes to Forest Tools plus a new experimental plugin for Unity that allows you to export scattered items to the popular engine for use in games and other real-time products.

Export .fbx from unity