I may be misunderstanding something about how glTF exporting works, but I thought a lot of the appeal was that you could shade your model in Blender and simply import it into Babylon with little hassle. No? Maybe I got that wrong.
Tl;dr is how do I approximate my shaders in Babylon manually, or do I have to?
Also, how do I adjust the default “void” color from purple to something else.
Here are three images showing the differences that I’m seeing:
I love the above shot. I want to keep the magenta reflection color and the fuchsia translucency on the icospheres. Also having this deep sky blue / cerulean void color would be nice. Icing on the cake would be some way to deactivate reactivity to light and shadow for emission material on a per-face basis.
I have tried to export from Blender (Version 2.80 (2.80 2019-07-05)) to Babylon using the v6.1.1 add-on, but all it does is give me this error every time:
I will dig into the PBR related docs more thoroughly. I thought I was on the right track but I’m only just dipping my toes in the water when it comes to exporting scenes.
If it is any help to @JCPalmer, My emission materials are applied per face within meshes, mostly. The only meshes that have emission materials as their only coloration are the canopy tethers toward the back. These are very thin elongated cubes.
Updated the shader and… back to same error as start of thread.
I’m stumped. I’ll have a go at troubleshooting the code later, I’m hungry so it’s a good time to take a break.
Full log follows:
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========= An error was encountered =========
File “/Users/allen-woods/Library/Application Support/Blender/2.80/scripts/addons/babylon_js/json_exporter.py”, line 154, in execute
self.to_json_file()
File “/Users/allen-woods/Library/Application Support/Blender/2.80/scripts/addons/babylon_js/json_exporter.py”, line 183, in to_json_file
material.to_json_file(file_handler)
File “/Users/allen-woods/Library/Application Support/Blender/2.80/scripts/addons/babylon_js/materials/material.py”, line 281, in to_json_file
write_float(file_handler, ‘emissiveIntensity’, self.bjsNodeTree.emissiveIntensity)
File “/Users/allen-woods/Library/Application Support/Blender/2.80/scripts/addons/babylon_js/package_level.py”, line 279, in write_color
file_handler.write(‘,"’ + name + ‘":[’ + format_color(color, precision) + ‘]’)
File “/Users/allen-woods/Library/Application Support/Blender/2.80/scripts/addons/babylon_js/package_level.py”, line 159, in format_color
return format_float(color[0], fmt) + ‘,’ + format_float(color[1], fmt) + ‘,’ + format_float(color[2], fmt)
ERROR: ‘float’ object is not subscriptable
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EDIT: It’s a problem described here, it goes a bit over my head when looking at format_color.
