Command-Line Converter for Linux

[KnisterPeter]

Hi there,

 

I would like to give babylon.js a try but I could not find any converter tool for assets.

There are the exporters and the online converter, but I do not have a modeling tool besides blender (which could not read in our models) and I could not upload private assets to an unknown server.

 

To make it a bit harder, I only use linux (but could install a vm if required).

 

Where to find the commandline converter source? And is it compileable with mono?

 

Cheers

Markus

[Stephen Andrews]

Hi there,

 

I would like to give babylon.js a try but I could not find any converter tool for assets.

There are the exporters and the online converter, but I do not have a modeling tool besides blender (which could not read in our models) and I could not upload private assets to an unknown server.

 

To make it a bit harder, I only use linux (but could install a vm if required).

 

Where to find the commandline converter source? And is it compileable with mono?

 

Cheers

Markus

Well you're in luck! The main supported asset exporter for BabylonJS IS an addon for Blender:

 

You can find it here: https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js/tree/master/Exporters/Blender

 

Resources on how to use it:

• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/eternalcoding/archive/2013/06/28/babylon-js-how-to-load-a-babylon-file-produced-with-blender.aspx
• https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js/wiki/Entities-exported-from-Blender

It works pretty well, but if for some reason, they totally fail to load, it's probably due to a double-comma error produced by the exporter. You can fix it by running this bash script in the directory that contains your exported assets after you export them:

#!/bin/bash# Locate all files with the extension .babylon and replace ,, with ,find . -name '*.babylon' -type f -exec sed -i 's/,,/,/g' {} \;

[KnisterPeter]

I know the blender pipeline. Thanks for your answer, but unfortunately we already have models created with cinema4d and its not easily loaded by blender (lots of rework for texturing and ligthing).

We tried the commandline converter in a windows vm for fbx files but without luck.

 

Any other option?

[GameMonetize]

Online converter? www.babylonjs.com/converter.html