Blender 2.76 FBX exporting

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Hello,

I’m currently running UE4.9 on Linux Mint. I’ve been trying to figure out why I can’t get FBX textures to import. I recently updated from UE4.8 (and an older version of Blender), and I’m starting to think there’s a regression or something that’s messing with this.

Basically, I followed the process outlined in the UE4 wiki on exporting FBX files from Blender to UE4 (creating the light map UV’s, traingulating the mesh, scaling up, etc.) using a simple cube at the world’s origin. When I tried importing it into UE4, I get the message saying the import failed and consequently, the asset wasn’t created.

Here’s the dump from my console:


[2015.11.12-14.00.32:694][857]LogDirectoryWatcher:Error: inotify_add_watch cannot watch folder /home/joel/Projects/bethel_model/test_export.fbx/ (errno = 20, Not a directory)
[2015.11.12-14.00.42:798][857]LogFactory: FactoryCreateBinary: StaticMesh with ReimportFbxStaticMeshFactory (0 0 /home/joel/Projects/bethel_model/test_export.fbx)
[2015.11.12-14.00.42:803][857]LogFbx: ItemName: GlobalSettings, ItemCount : 1
[2015.11.12-14.00.42:810][857]LogFbx: Loading FBX Scene from /home/joel/Projects/bethel_model/test_export.fbx
[2015.11.12-14.00.42:816][857]LogFbx: FBX Scene Loaded Succesfully
[2015.11.12-14.00.54:959][857]LogFbx: Loading FBX Scene from /home/joel/Projects/bethel_model/test_export.fbx
[2015.11.12-14.00.54:964][857]LogFbx: FBX Scene Loaded Succesfully
[2015.11.12-14.00.54:966][857]FBXImport:Error: Error Import failed. 
[2015.11.12-14.01.00:540][857]LogAssetTools:Warning: Failed to import '/home/joel/Projects/bethel_model/test_export.fbx'. Failed to create asset '/Game/VehicleAdvBP/test_export'

Other than an inotify issue at the start (no idea why it’s trying to put a watch on a file it’s importing), there’s nothing in the console output to suggest an error.

What makes me think it’s a regression of some sort is that I can bring in static meshes that I’ve exported previously (a couple of months ago) without issue.

Any thoughts on how I might be able to track down this nebulous error?

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I don’t suppose anyone can tell me if the FBX 2014 specification is the same as FBX 7.4? I assume they’re not, and it may be the source of my problem, as the FBX export script bundled with Blender 2.76 only supports 7.4 (binary) and 6.1 (ASCII)

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Is 2.76 ready for the penguin?
I would ask that inside the Blenderforum
But…" /test_export.fbx/ (errno = 20, Not a directory)" the slash behind fbx, means that not he is calling it as folder not a file?
Named you a folder ***.fbx?

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[SOLVED] Blender 2.76 FBX exporting

Turns out it’s my .blend file. Looks like there’s something in it that’s corrupting the FBX export. I’ve no idea what that is, so I guess I’ll start a new file and do my exporting out of that.