Does Modo need a special .FBX exporter?

MeshMagnet

Any Modo/UE4 users out there have any special instructions for exporting out an .fbx file from Modo?

Are there any third party exporter plugins that I should know about?

Ramseus

My modo has fbx versions 2006.1, 2010, and 2013 for exporting. 2013 is just... not good. I always use 2010 and ignore the outdated fbx version warning because I've never had any issues with it.

Farfarer

If you're using 801, you'll want to enable "Save smoothing groups" in the FBX I/O options.

It breaks Unity3D's importing of normals if it's enabled (issue with Unity's importer) which is why it's off by default.

Other than that, you shouldn't have any issues as far as I know.

Ramseus

Oh yeah, I just remembered (because I just noticed it on some assets), the only issue I have with fbx2010 is that I get extra UV channels that are just copies of UV0 if I don't deleted my textures group before exporting. Don't know what that's about.

I'm still on 7, fwiw.

WarrenM

2013 works great for me using MODO 801. Imports into UE4, no sweat...