Property [emissive] not included in blender export

Content creation (3dsMax, Maya, Blender, glTF)
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Hi there,

I noticed ( “emissive”:[1,1,1] ) property is not included in the .babylon file when I export my scene in blender, currently using (ver 2.80.1). I have confirmed the issue by manually adding the property and the emissive texture worked as expected. Need help as I’m using emissive textures in my scene and it would be a pain to go through each mesh that requires it.

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Adding @JCPalmer who is the creator of the Blender exporter.

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I am assuming that you actually meant emissiveColor. In the 2.80 exporter, you need to have the emission Node twice. Once for the color, & again for the texture. It was an oversight not to put in white in when only a texture was found, in the case of emissive. The default for Albedo is white, while emissive is black.

emission tex + color
emission tex + color723×297 32.7 KB

The 2.93 exporter is starting dev very soon. This will be rectified there, as well as:

  • reading emissive from the principled node type
  • providing for overloading, so that the same node field can be used for both a color & a texture, though Blender itself will not actually perform it that way.

See, Enhancements for Blender 2.93 LTS for more.

What I would do for now is just execute a loop one time after all your loads have occurred, rather than edit JSON files by hand. Assuming you are doing SceneLoader.Append(s), you can do it in an executeWhenReady()

const canvas = document.getElementById("renderCanvas");
const engine = new BABYLON.Engine(canvas, true);
const scene = new BABYLON.Scene(engine);

BABYLON.SceneLoader.Append("./", "fileA.babylon", scene);
BABYLON.SceneLoader.Append("./", "fileB.babylon", scene);
scene.executeWhenReady(function () {
    for (const mat of scene.materials) {
        if (mat instanceof BABYLON.PBRMaterial || mat instanceof BABYLON.StandardMaterial) {
            if (mat.emissiveTexture && !mat.emissiveColor) mat.emissiveColor = BABYLON.Color3.White();
        } else if (mat instanceof BABYLON.MultiMaterial) {
            for (const sub of mat.subMaterials) {
                if (sub.emissiveTexture && !sub.emissiveColor) sub.emissiveColor = BABYLON.Color3.White();
            }
        }
    }
});
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Thanks for getting back to me, I will give this a go and keep you posted!. :slight_smile:

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Setting [ mat.emissiveColor ] property to white resolves the issue, thanks. I will check out the next exporter build once it’s out. :slight_smile: