The release of Unity 2017.2 launches in October and promises to empower artists and designers with improved workflows and faster roundtripping. In particular, it will be the first official Unity and Autodesk collaboration. 3ds Max and Maya users often utilize Unity technology, so we want to provide the best possible connection between these tools,” said Marc Stevens, vice president of Entertainment, Autodesk. “ Autodesk is very interested in making media and entertainment artists’ work as seamless as possible, and the workflow between 3D art tools and engines is a big part of that effort.

The streamlined process for asset sharing and in-game iteration due to this new FBX integration with Unity has been demoed at Unity’s confab event in Austin this week. The result is that Unity will be the first creation engine (aka: game engine) that has source code access to the Autodesk FBX SDK.

You can do all your setup and grey-boxing, then very quickly export things to digital content creation tools (DCC), such as 3ds Max, Maya or Maya LT, have the artists finalize the content, and safely merge your changes back into those Assets to continue your work in Unity.Autodesk and Unity have partnered to collaborate on strengthening the link between Unity and 3D artists working with Autodesk 3ds max and Maya.

By doing this, it enables you to round trip very easily and save loads of time. The Exporter enables Autodesk tools to be aware of your Unity project and the location of your Assets folder. The FBX Exporter package makes it smooth and easy to send geometry and animation from Unity 2017.3 or later, to any application that supports FBX, and back again with minimal effort. The Unity FBX Exporter is available in Preview via the Package Manager from versions 2018.3 and up. The built-in Unity FBX Importer provides support for:Īnimation and animated custom properties (when present in the FBX file)

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