Is there a program/API/code/library to convert any of the source file formats(fbx/obj/dwg) into playcanvas’s json format ?
I know it can be done manually by dragging and dropping in the playcanvas editor. But I’m using playcanvas in a way that needs to be integrated to take in any one of the 3D source format to automatically do the transformation.
At the very least I just need the 3D mesh (for now I can live without textures and materials) imported into playcanvas application. I’d love to hear if anyone’s done any work on this and can share that.
Hi @Jordan. Since this thread was started, the core engine has had glTF 2.0 support added to it. So that playcanvas-gltf repo is in the process of being deprecated. If you want to try it out, check out the glb viewer availlable here. Does that load your file? (Note that, at the moment, that viewer just supports glb loading and not unpacked glTF files).
Since that viewer loads a cubemap I changed it to load a model and replaced the .dds file with a .glb like so:
var glbAsset = new pc.Asset('01.glb', 'model', {
url: assetsFolder + "01.glb"
}, {
rgbm: true
});
app.assets.add(glbAsset);
app.assets.load(glbAsset);
var glb = new pc.Entity('glb');
glb.addComponent('model', {
asset: glbAsset
});
// create the orbit camera
var camera = new pc.Entity("Camera");
camera.addComponent("camera", {
fov: 60,
clearColor: new pc.Color(0.4, 0.45, 0.5)
});
// load orbit script
app.assets.loadFromUrl(
assetsFolder + "orbit-camera.js",
"script",
function (err, asset) {
// setup orbit script component
camera.addComponent("script");
camera.script.create("orbitCamera", {
attributes: {
inertiaFactor: 0.1
}
});
camera.script.create("orbitCameraInputMouse");
camera.script.create("orbitCameraInputTouch");
app.root.addChild(glb);
});
I am not getting any errors but the screen is completely white. This is the glb file I am using which was converted from fbx. Here is the output from that:
FBX2glTF -i ~/Desktop/01Alocasia.fbx -o gltf/01.glb -b
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Texture.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Texture.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Texture.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Map #10.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Map #11.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Texture.044.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Texture.044.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Texture.041.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Texture.041.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Texture.043.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Texture.043.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Map #7.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Map #8.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Texture.039.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Texture.039.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Texture.039.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Texture.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Texture.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Texture.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Map #10.
Warning: could not find a image file for texture: Map #11.
Animation Take 001: [0 - 0]
Warning: animation 'Take 001' has zero channels. Skipping.
Wrote 9494861 bytes of binary glTF to gltf/outalo.glb.
Something is wrong with that GLB file. I can’t load it in any glTF viewer (PlayCanvas or otherwise). I re-converted that FBX file (I downloaded it from Free3D) using FBX2glTF and it works fine:
viewer.js:189 Uncaught TypeError: this.app.assets.loadFromUrlAndFilename is not a function
at Viewer.load (viewer.js:189)
at dropHandler (viewer.js:103)
Can you show the output you got from FBX2glTF? I may have a faulty binary
When the glb-viewer is opened this message appears in the console:
playcanvas.js:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (File not found)
viewer.js:8 Uncaught ReferenceError: pc is not defined
at new Viewer (viewer.js:8)
at main (viewer.js:317)
at onload ((index):12)
Unless I edit it and include the latest playcanvas-stable.js in which case I get the error I mentioned above.
