How does one get an .fbx's textures to appear in Microsoft 3D Viewer?

MEATTAIL

Hey! Just curious, how do people get their .fbx files to display with texture in Microsoft 3D Viewer? I've downloaded a couple of .fbx files (and these are .fbx files, not .glb or .gltf files) from sketchfab that display with textures when opened in Microsoft 3D Viewer. How does one achieve this? It's not super important, but I think it'd be a nice touch when sending a completed project to my clients.

poopipe

you need to assign a material that the format you're exporting understands
for fbx a basic phong or blinn material in maya or the legacy standard material in max should work. 

not sure about gltf , never used it

Eric Chadwick

Microsoft’s previewer is very simplistic, but I do know it supports PBR textured glTF models, which you can export from Maya and Max using the Babylon exporter.