Hi,

I routinely receive FBX assets that come out of Unity or Unreal which, when imported, have multiple "takes", one for each animation segment/action. e.g. "walk", "run", "attack".

I know how to go through, take by take, create one motion clip at a time, name it, etc.

It'd be great (and I'm guessing useful for a lot of people) if there were a plugin or script that would evaluate an imported FBX and convert the takes to motion clips with a single command, like, say "convert takes to motion clips."

Is this a thing? If it's not, is there an easier way?

Thanks much,

• Greg

Hi Dr. Sassi,
Yeah, I guess Photoshop could be a way to do it. I'll give that a try. Thanks!

I put my screenshots in a Dropbox folder here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/jjibiu7y0e1nrqry1vfux/AC1X2nHA88gtkg2P1t-NRJQ?rlkey=dc7jnarunqx4lxhxfxcr6fr44&st=w7823bzv&dl=0

bake01 and bake02 are the way I'm working now. Then I put my proposed "Material channel splitter" node, which I'm guessing doesn't exist. Honestly, if it ever COULD exist, I think this would be invaluable for people who are making assets for games, AR or VR. One of the things I've struggled with most is properly baking texture images to work with, say, Unreal Engine, and I feel like I'm not the only one.

Thanks again for your time!
-Greg

Hi Dr. Sassi,
Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately your first link isn't working for me. I end up at a 404 error page.

I'm baking anything that comes into the material from a network w/ settings that need to be calculated. And I have materials that are blended before being passed along to the Surface output node. I'm doing the baking twice (once for each pre-blended material) , replacing any networks with the baked texture images, and then merging the two partially baked materials into the Material Blender.

I made a few screenshots to illustrate what I'm trying to do, but apparently the dimensions are too big. Is there anywhere I can upload them besides this text box?

Thanks,

• Greg

Hi,

I've found that baking out channels into textures via custom AOVs is super useful for making PBR textures, and can speed up renders a fair amount while retaining a good quality. From time to time, I receive materials with super complex shader networks, that then use material blenders before going to the surface. My question: Is there a Redshift node that would allow me to output various channels (Diffuse color, diffuse weight, reflection color, reflection roughness, reflection weight, etc) to put into a Custom AOV node and bake to texture images AFTER the Material Blender node, just before going into the Surface input? Sure would be helpful!

Basically, I just want to catch the channels that I could use to make a simple PBR material based on baked texture images. Is this doable?

Bonus points (separate question, I guess): Is it possible to bake stacked Redshift materials into one texture based PBR material?

Thanks,

• Greg