node-fbx

NOTE: This project is still work in progress.

Dependencies

• The FBX SDK - http://www.autodesk.com/products/fbx/overview
• node-gyp - https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp
• nan - https://github.com/nodejs/nan

Install

1. Download and install the FBX SDK to vendor/fbx-sdk/
2. run npm install

Usage

TODO

TODO

• dump node hierarchy
• dump mesh control-points
• dump mesh polygons
• dump mesh polygon sizes
• dump mesh normals
• dump mesh tangents and binormals
• dump mesh uvs, uvs1, uvs2, ...
• dump mesh colors
• dump mesh blend shapes
• dump animation clip
• dump skin
• convert blend-shapes to meshes
• triangulate mesh polygons
• split mesh data by normals, binormals, tangents, colors and uvs
• divide mesh data to sub-meshes by material
• calculate normals
• calculate tangents from normals and uvs
• compress binormals
• support Windows (help wanted)
• support Linux (help wanted)

Reference

• FBX SDK documentation
• A quick tutorial about the FBX ASCII format
• How to work with FBX SDK

Reference Source Code

• lang1991/FBXExporter
• NickHardeman/ofxFBX
• libgdx/fbx-conv
• guillaumeblanc/ozz-animation
• FBX in Three.js
• FBX in Babylon.js

Known Issues

1. Link the libfbxsdk.dylib

The fbxsdk use @executable_path as install path in MacOSX. We need to replace it with @rpath otherwise our programme can not find the path to load the library. To do this, just run:

install_name_tool -id "@rpath/libfbxsdk.dylib" libfbxsdk.dylib

License

MIT © 2016 Johnny Wu