It took a really long time to figure this out.

Export Settings part above) export with the correct +Z forward, +Y up axes, so it's not a big deal for me being that every other object is completely correct!Īnd last bit: I hope this helps you. The 'Armature' is buried somewhere in my character models' hierarchies anyway, and my bones (thanks to the 1. Have you ever been frustrated when exporting FBX files from Blender and importing them into Unity Problems with rotation and scaling along the way In this post I will provide you with some tips and tricks to get the Blender to Unity process working smoother. Leave your Armature at its default (0, 0, 0) rotation in Blender. This is because if you try to apply rotation to the Armature in Blender, it WILL mess up your bone constraints and animations. NOTE: The only object I have still never been able to fix is the Armature itself, which always has (-90, 0, 0) rotation in my exports.

(Once you perform these steps, you can export to FBX with settings similar to those described in Step 1., and it should be all-good in Unity!) Over the months (maybe years?), I found these steps to completely remove all cases of weird -90 rotation issues in Unity, depending on what kind of object(s) you're exporting: I tend to use something like the following structure, for example, if the character's name is Mark: (Ģ.2. If you're just modeling a simple object that is one Mesh, one object - you can skip this step 2.1. Whenever exporting a rigged character, I always setup my hierarchy in Blender with extra empty parent objects, so that I don't need to add any extra Transforms in Unity. These steps allow my Blender characters to have completely zeroed out position and rotation, while maintaining the model's correct orientation:Ģ.1. When I am ready for export, this is how I prepare my 3D models in Blender. However, that's not universal, so the fbx exporter allow every valid Up/Forward combination. Correctly Applied Rotation (in Blender)įor the export settings: I wrote extensively about my specific export settings here! The good news is, you can save these export setting presets for a long time, and not worry about setting these every time you export.Ģ. It's quite conventional that the vertical axis points up (not down), and the X axis points right (not left). For me, proper export from Blender takes 2 important parts:Ģ.

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