WEBVTT 00:00.760 --> 00:06.360 Well come to exporting your model in this video you will learn how to set up the. 00:06.500 --> 00:10.400 X export and understand why we use it. 00:10.420 --> 00:14.650 Realize that your model is currently only suitable for Blender. 00:14.650 --> 00:19.730 The export doesn't fully work in the models current state. 00:20.050 --> 00:22.760 So let's hop straight on over into blender. 00:24.660 --> 00:31.410 Even though this and the following lectures are focussed on exporting to other packages your want to 00:31.410 --> 00:32.200 follow along. 00:32.220 --> 00:34.650 Even if you don't want to do this at the moment. 00:34.710 --> 00:41.670 So you gain an understanding of how things need to be set up and also give you a deeper understanding 00:41.940 --> 00:48.930 into how to set up a rig in a very neat and concise manner. 00:49.170 --> 00:52.950 Right so over in blender you may be confronted with this. 00:52.980 --> 01:00.450 If you were to open up your screen afresh now don't worry we're on the image slash euv editor to do 01:00.450 --> 01:01.440 with Blender. 01:01.470 --> 01:06.510 Now usually Obviously you'd see something there but because I've quit the program and come back in it's 01:06.510 --> 01:10.450 opened up how it was last time so it's going to go down here to the. 01:10.680 --> 01:12.390 What was the 3D Ed header. 01:12.400 --> 01:17.710 And actually just change it back to 3D view so we can see our lamp now. 01:17.850 --> 01:22.700 If we export this let's go through the options we've got of exporting. 01:22.920 --> 01:29.880 Now if we go to file and export it gives a series of options down here. 01:29.870 --> 01:37.080 Now there are various options down here we're going to be focussing on F X because it is a standard 01:37.090 --> 01:44.070 father will work across multiple platforms whether you need to import to another 3D package or whether 01:44.070 --> 01:46.560 you're importing it into a game engine. 01:46.770 --> 01:50.410 So let's go ahead and click on export. 01:51.060 --> 01:57.870 Okay so we end up with our file management system here and I've already got a file that I've been testing 01:57.870 --> 02:03.010 called lamp mesh export FBI so I'm going to click on that and that's the one I'm going to overwrite 02:03.030 --> 02:04.360 essentially. 02:04.590 --> 02:10.670 Now down here in the lower left we have a lot of different options. 02:10.680 --> 02:13.490 I suggest you leave the version alone. 02:13.770 --> 02:15.820 Now applying units. 02:15.930 --> 02:17.490 What's going on here now. 02:17.490 --> 02:20.310 This is the orientation of our model. 02:20.550 --> 02:26.400 Now I believe I'm not quite sure I might go into let's go and check which way forward is and which way 02:26.520 --> 02:27.640 up is. 02:27.920 --> 02:32.730 So just cancel that for the moment and hop around our model. 02:33.360 --> 02:38.360 Okay so let's make sure it's in it's the fault pose and nothing else. 02:39.320 --> 02:42.970 As go on the outline here select the rake. 02:44.730 --> 02:47.190 In post mode which is great. 02:48.170 --> 02:50.670 It's going to zoom in on a bit of our model. 02:50.680 --> 02:56.170 I mean orthographic projection at the moment and it's going to toggle out of that right. 02:57.150 --> 03:00.120 Let's show our rakes I can move it's about. 03:00.120 --> 03:00.780 Excellent. 03:00.780 --> 03:07.500 Let's select the entire rack and just make sure that there's no extra rotations applied. 03:07.530 --> 03:08.410 Brilliant. 03:08.610 --> 03:09.000 Okay. 03:09.000 --> 03:11.290 So our model is looking. 03:12.200 --> 03:18.240 Sashi Looking backwards looking along the x axis so make that clear. 03:18.290 --> 03:27.460 If I were to look down the axis of x rays you can see the red arrow just here on the screen. 03:27.590 --> 03:29.840 That would be looking down x. 03:29.870 --> 03:32.420 That would be looking down why. 03:32.570 --> 03:34.320 Now of course you're looking backwards. 03:34.340 --> 03:37.580 So that would be negative y and this would be negative x. 03:37.580 --> 03:41.230 So in this case the lamp is actually orientated round this way. 03:41.300 --> 03:42.270 So the. 03:43.150 --> 03:47.740 Orientation would be as X is forward. 03:48.130 --> 03:50.110 And of course Z being up. 03:50.110 --> 03:52.220 So let's go ahead Angola file. 03:52.540 --> 04:02.500 Export sbx right forward X and up is Z perfect. 04:02.500 --> 04:08.680 Now a few of the extra ones down here we've got the empties that you've got in the scene the camera 04:08.710 --> 04:09.390 the lab. 04:09.400 --> 04:13.600 I'm going to leave all of those selected seal it's you going to export everything. 04:13.600 --> 04:19.530 This in our scene and we're going to leave all the other ones as they are for the moments. 04:19.660 --> 04:21.810 So I'm just going to click exports here. 04:22.630 --> 04:24.290 And that has save for far. 04:24.310 --> 04:26.540 Now do note and this is quite important. 04:26.560 --> 04:33.100 If you've already got an export file labelled and you go and export again with the same file name it 04:33.100 --> 04:37.320 will overwrite it without asking you Are you sure. 04:37.420 --> 04:41.620 Now these in Asia were so used to the computer asking us Are you sure you want to do that. 04:41.760 --> 04:45.060 Well in this particular case it's just going to overwrite it. 04:45.160 --> 04:47.820 So bear that in mind when doing exports. 04:47.950 --> 04:54.010 So just follow along with me for a moment as we go in have a look at our exports when it's brought in 04:54.010 --> 04:55.700 to to game engines. 04:55.810 --> 05:00.100 So I'll be pausing the video whilst these things load up and let's just see how they come in. 05:00.220 --> 05:06.370 Okay some over in unity here and you have to bear with me because I'm not a unity expert but I know 05:06.370 --> 05:14.930 I need to import a new assets and I'm going to go ahead and select my sbx file. 05:16.280 --> 05:16.850 Here we go. 05:16.850 --> 05:23.030 I found it here and I'm going to bring that into our scene and click in drag and that'll drop it in 05:23.510 --> 05:26.810 as we can see here something's gone horribly wrong. 05:26.810 --> 05:30.350 It's not looking at all like it should do. 05:31.520 --> 05:32.490 A hacker. 05:32.780 --> 05:37.530 So things are always skew whiff and not where we want them to be. 05:37.550 --> 05:45.190 In fact this has an animation along with it that if we play that animation and thinks oh something's 05:45.200 --> 05:45.820 happening. 05:45.980 --> 05:47.410 Oh that looks horrible. 05:47.420 --> 05:49.560 The base is moving by itself. 05:49.600 --> 05:53.600 And as it's on completely the wrong plane and everything else. 05:53.640 --> 05:55.820 So that's not very good. 05:55.820 --> 05:59.130 The lamp isn't moving the rigs are not attached to the lamp. 05:59.300 --> 06:01.490 Lots of mess going on there so that's no good. 06:01.490 --> 06:03.660 Let's see how it happens in our real. 06:04.550 --> 06:11.570 In fact when I first tried to import this into the Unity engine there lamp wasn't even attached to the 06:11.570 --> 06:14.060 lampshade wasn't even attached to the rest of the body. 06:14.150 --> 06:21.200 So I'm not quite sure why it's actually come across quite as neat as it was but it's still not right. 06:21.230 --> 06:22.610 Okay so let's go ahead. 06:22.610 --> 06:29.700 In the unreel engine and just go ahead and import with everything as defaults. 06:29.830 --> 06:30.810 Import all. 06:33.900 --> 06:36.930 Got a couple of warnings along the way. 06:37.860 --> 06:42.590 And also lots of things in here let's go for the lamp if we can find it. 06:42.600 --> 06:43.880 Lamp mesh. 06:46.240 --> 06:48.030 That looks like it's arm back drop. 06:48.030 --> 06:49.160 Lovely. 06:50.620 --> 06:53.570 Also looks like it's our back drop. 06:53.710 --> 06:53.930 OK. 06:53.950 --> 06:59.250 So one of the lessons we can learn here is there's lots of things that can be imported. 06:59.320 --> 07:01.000 Do you need all of them. 07:01.000 --> 07:08.350 So the first thing I think we need to go and do is make sure that our model only has the vital bits 07:08.380 --> 07:09.370 in it. 07:09.790 --> 07:15.840 In fact looking along here our lamp doesn't even seem to be in the FBI x file. 07:15.850 --> 07:17.810 When unreal reads it. 07:17.950 --> 07:19.080 So we need to sort that out. 07:19.090 --> 07:20.820 It's a bit useless at the moment. 07:21.590 --> 07:28.270 So over back in blender The first thing we're going to need to do is make everything a little neater. 07:28.310 --> 07:34.250 So all I want left in my scene is the lamp and it's armature. 07:34.280 --> 07:35.700 I don't want anything else. 07:35.720 --> 07:43.790 I also want to make sure that any curve objects that we've created are solidified into a mesh because 07:43.790 --> 07:47.720 we're going to need it to be a mesh object later on. 07:47.720 --> 07:49.680 I've got a challenge for you guys. 07:50.660 --> 07:57.030 Okay I'd like you to simplify the scene save as a new blender file and make sure you include the word 07:57.090 --> 08:00.870 export in that new blender file to see you know what it's for. 08:00.870 --> 08:08.370 Make sure that any curve objects are converted into a mesh object and then finally remove everything 08:08.370 --> 08:08.990 from the scene. 08:09.000 --> 08:12.030 That isn't part of the lamp or armature. 08:12.970 --> 08:15.170 Possibly now and give that a go. 08:17.330 --> 08:18.030 Okay guys. 08:18.050 --> 08:19.310 Welcome back. 08:19.310 --> 08:21.630 Let's hop straight on over into blender. 08:23.360 --> 08:23.720 Right. 08:23.720 --> 08:26.230 So looking at our lamp. 08:26.630 --> 08:32.630 Let's go ahead straightaway and remove some of the stuff that's a bit further out so we going to remove 08:32.630 --> 08:33.380 the back drop. 08:33.380 --> 08:35.280 It's not part of our lamp. 08:36.080 --> 08:42.260 Before we do this let's go file safe has almost rushed ahead and I'm going to call it animated lamp 08:42.350 --> 08:47.190 exports savours blend file animated lambeck sports at the top. 08:47.190 --> 08:48.310 Brilliant right. 08:48.310 --> 08:49.170 I'm going to delete this. 08:49.180 --> 08:53.730 A lighting plane is about now I can't actually select that at the moment. 08:54.200 --> 08:59.620 I can select the lamp that it's parents to but I can't select it because it is probably. 08:59.630 --> 09:00.330 Here we go. 09:00.320 --> 09:04.830 No not that one the plane here are turned off selecting in the outliner. 09:05.030 --> 09:06.460 That's what their little arrow means. 09:06.470 --> 09:06.950 Right. 09:07.130 --> 09:08.660 I can now delete that. 09:08.660 --> 09:11.400 I'm going to delete the camera as well. 09:11.620 --> 09:15.110 Now in our model let's have a look. 09:15.110 --> 09:21.860 Down here we've got a couple of objects that are curved objects the lampshade outline and the lampshade 09:21.890 --> 09:23.050 profile. 09:23.270 --> 09:23.960 Well let's. 09:23.960 --> 09:26.560 The lampshade profiles the one I care about. 09:26.750 --> 09:28.820 Let's select. 09:28.870 --> 09:29.610 That's. 09:29.690 --> 09:30.800 And. 09:32.290 --> 09:37.200 Object convert to mesh from curve or Oulton see. 09:38.320 --> 09:42.210 We've got that there in the here we can keep the original. 09:42.220 --> 09:44.120 But in this case I don't want so. 09:44.120 --> 09:45.450 So that's absolutely fine. 09:45.460 --> 09:52.970 Over in the operator panel and I'm going to delete the lampshade outline essence of that's there the 09:53.030 --> 09:54.610 spot lamp that's in here. 09:54.640 --> 09:56.410 I'm going to remove that as well. 09:56.410 --> 09:58.190 That's not part of the lamp. 09:58.210 --> 10:01.120 The lower arm has an empty associated with it. 10:01.120 --> 10:04.610 The mirror axis that can go now as well. 10:04.720 --> 10:05.920 Let's see. 10:05.920 --> 10:08.110 Any other note that's fine. 10:08.110 --> 10:13.730 We've got some old archaic stuff here so the base curves can be deleted. 10:13.810 --> 10:16.700 The base curve outline can be deleted as well. 10:16.810 --> 10:20.150 The base mesh old can be deleted. 10:20.360 --> 10:24.880 That leaves us I think pretty much with the only bits we need. 10:24.880 --> 10:29.970 The lamp break and the meshes themselves. 10:30.100 --> 10:30.990 Excellent. 10:31.000 --> 10:32.180 How did you guys do. 10:32.200 --> 10:38.670 I hope you've ended up with a nice clean model and I will see you in the next lecture.