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Some more common image based texture channels may some times be correctly preserved, like diffuse, specular, glossiness, or the increasingly popular "PBR workflows", but certainly never procedurally generated textures and/or generated texture coordinates, these are generated at render time and can't be exported.
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On the other hand glass and transparent shaders "just work" with great refraction in raytracers, yet in EEVEE you need to muck about with blending modes and transparency settings, nonexistent in Cycles, because representing object interactions is expensive and complex for rasterizers. There are simply no data structures in the specifications for most exchange file formats to accommodate that data, let alone all possible types of properties, settings or maps and even if there were, there are way too many different rendering implementations for a variety of purposes and responding to distinct requirements (like speed or responsiveness for real time rendering engines or games, or realism for physically based 'offline renders'), and each using its own different set of parameters and particular ways of interpreting specific properties to be able to correctly match settings, parameters or particular features between them easily.įor example most real time rendering systems have need for some form of explicit "backface culling" option because rasterization relies heavily on it for performance reasons, yet in render like Cycles it is just a basic node because for raytracers it is irrelevant which direction a geometry faces.
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Sketchfab models no texture full#
These are mostly mesh-only, geometry-centric file formats concerned with porting object shapes, and some times animation, armature, and basic shading, or color properties (like MTL files) never full complex material definitions. You can't, for the most part, import/export material definitions between applications, you can't even get Blender Internal Materials to work with Cycles Renderer nor vice versa, and they are both created with Blender, let alone between completely different applications.įor this reason no file format you use can, or even tries to, import or export material properties, be it 3DS, FBX, Collada, STL, OBJ or any other.
Sketchfab models no texture software#
Materials are too implementation specific and tightly tied to the rendering system they belong to, or software they were created with. Manually reproduce your materials using available textures at the target environment. Also most Blender importers/exporters don't currently support node based materials well. Most file formats just don't support exporting textures, let alone full blown material definitions or other application specific features.