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FBX to/from glTF

Cyrille Fauvel

Sr. Program Manager – ADN / Forge

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Beyond graphics APIs,

we need a runtime

3D Model Format

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What’s in a 3D model?

Node hierarchy and geometry

Materials and textures

Animations and skins

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scene

node

camera mesh light

accessor

bufferView

buffer

material

technique texture

samplerimageprogram

shader

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skin

animation

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glTF Internals

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glTF Internals

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.json

Node hierarchy, materials, lights, cameras

.bin

• Geometry: vertices and

indices

• Animation: key-frames

• Skins: inverse-bind matrices

.glsl

Shaders

.png,

.jpg, …

Textures

.glsl

Shaders

.bin

• Geometry: vertices and

indices

• Animation: key-frames

• Skins: inverse-bind matrices

.png, .jpg,

…

Textures

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glTF viewers

three.js Loaderhttps://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/

It’s the native format!

http://cesiumjs.org/

Babylon.js Loaderhttp://www.babylonjs.com/

collada2gltf converterhttps://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF

FBX/… to glTF Convertor(in development)

Online Drag and drop convertor coming

http://gltf.autodesk.io/

Online drag and drop COLLADA

to glTF converterhttp://cesiumjs.org/convertmodel.html

PIPELINE TOOLS

Autodesk View & Datahttp://developer.Autodesk.com/

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More than just FBX

.fbx

.obj

.dae

.???

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2 components

Command line tool-f/--file - file to convert to glTF [string]

-o/--output - path of output directory [string]

-n/--name - override the scene name [string]

-c/--copy - copy all media to the target directory (cannot be combined with --embed)

-e/--embed - embed all resources as Data URIs (cannot be combined with --copy)

I/O FBX runtime extension

Supported on the 3 main platforms

Windows, osx, linux

Actually can work on iOS too, but…

I/O FBX plug-in DLL

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Microsoft - Babylon.js

Three.js

…

Autodesk Forge – View & Data API

Engine integration

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https://github.com/cyrillef/FBX-glTF

http://gltf.autodesk.io

FBX-glTF

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