FBX previews in Windows 10: By far the coolest feature...
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Built in .FBX preview lol.
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Also you probably need to have the creators update installed.
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It seems to be a massive resource hog. Checking Task Manager after clicking around a few of my folders pushed RAM usage up to just under a GB and made explorer really slow. I hope they fix the performance because it's a really cool little viewer.
I've always used the Autodesk FBX Reviewer that would open FBX files in a stand alone viewer. It's light weight and opens really quick. It gives you full control around the scene too. It's better than waiting for 3dsMax or Maya to open.
https://apps.autodesk.com/MAYA/en/Detail/Index?id=6979630331069053932&appLang=en&os=Win64
EDIT: Got it working, you have to set the default app for FBX files to "View 3D" if you have it set to anything else it doesn't display. Also, no textures or animations so that is kind of a big deal for me, because I use FBX Review to review animations. But still, that's pretty cool!
This isn't something i've done. And i'm not entirely sure when i've started being able to do this, I assumed it was just default behavior added in an update sometime.
maybe some day they give options for customize that previews
anyway, i didn't knew that
It seems the creators update is required for all this.
after you associate the obj fbx,format files with view 3d app you will simply run into an endless loop everytime explorer try to preview a 3d file format, and you would again have to lkill the process manually. That's why it important to remove all the format file associated with view 3d app.
it's funny, when a good tip is just revert his purpose "from it so nice..." to .." its so bad .." disable that men ^^
PS: What must one do to get them TGA icons to preview in explorer tho?
Kapoff said: I'm assuming it would work if you associated .TGA files with Paint3D, but I can't find the physical location of the program anywhere on my computer in order to set that and test it.
I did the test you suggested on a GTX660 on an old hard drive disk with 32G of Ram. The files loaded slowly, but once they were loaded, the application was quick. When loading them, I didn't notice a hit to my RAM usage, but I did see exactly what you saw. A huge spike to the CPU caused by the preview handler trying to load large 3D objects in preview.
I will report this to the Windows team tomorrow. Thanks for the information! This is super useful.
Edit: One way to get the processes back is to close the instance of explorer. Once you open it again, it's fine, but if you try to preview 3D Files, you quickly run out of CPU. Anyone encountering this issue (may not be an issue on some rigs) should close explorer window when done previewing files if they choose to use this feature on large meshes.
explorer still run in background than you have to kill the preview halndler surrogate host process, in order to get back to normal.
And closing explorer seems to make it cease more or less immediately.
@fuzzzzzz - Yes, killing the preview handler surrogate host process will work. I'm surprised killing windows explorer doesn't. I supplied this feedback to the Windows team, and I encourage everyone who encounters windows 10 problems to use the Windows 10 Feedback tool. You can provide win10 feedback at any time by pressing the start key and typing "feedback". This will give you the option to load "Feedback Hub". Login with your windows account and provide feedback on the features you love and hate.
@Joopson - This is a less than ideal work around and we have this issue assigned to an engineer who is working to resolve it in upcoming updates. There unfortunately isn't a release that is flagged for it to be fixed. If everyone provides feedback on this feature, I assure you, improvements will be made. I'm not on the Windows team, but we (Microsoft) value this feedback.
This specific issue is reported as:
(Model) Preview Panel in Windows Explorer using a lot of CPU
Please visit the Feedback Hub and upvote this feedback!
Thanks,
Don Smith
Technical Art Director
Microsoft Global Publishing (XBox)
Loading a full file (which in the case of sculpts could go up in the hundred of megs or even a few Gigs) when merely selecting its icon sounds a lot like something an OS should never do .... I could imagine that sort of stuff freezing or crashing a CAD workstation right before a deadline
It's of course great for image files, but for 3d formats like FBX and OBJ (which do not have an embedded image preview) it honestly sounds like a pretty bad idea. At the very least, there should be a very straightforward and visible way to disable this feature, and opt-in should be optional as opposed to being a surprise push. An OS should never, ever enable an option by default if said option has even the slightest risk of slowing down the user more than if it was disabled.
I guess it's just a matter of having a data cap - like not auto loading if a file is over 500mb for instance.
interestingly, this only applies to tga files that are exported from certain apps.
glTF has a lot of support, better material handling, no vulnerability to script injection etc., and has a much cleaner spec so it's easier to add to tools and renderers. I'm involved in weekly conference calls on glTF, helping influence changes from 3d artist perspective. Happy to answer any Qs on it.
It is a much better format all around. For things outside of strict real-time asset delivery (glTF core design philosophy) it's better to use USD going forward. FBX will be around a while yet, as also OBJ, but they're both really limiting and showing their age. USD and glTF are where all the 3D software development efforts are headed.