Normal Maps not exporting in FBX?

Unity Engine
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I’m having an issue at the moment where when I export a model to FBX, the diffuse textures work properly, but the normal maps are not applied and I have to end up doing them manually in Unity.

This is not much of an issue at the moment, but with some larger scenes with many textures this would be a nightmare.

Any advice on how I might be able to get around this issue?

Thanks.

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As far as I know, you have to set these manually in Unity anyways, since you need to assign a bumped shader to whatever material youre working with. But I am by no means an artist, so maybe someone smarter than me can enlighten ?

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I gave up with the system of materials of Unity and just do it by hand.
Also I am using multimaterial and this makes things even more difficult (and not working automatically by Unity).
I think that simply Unity was not thought for such complex tasks. It CAN do them, but you must work them alone by hand (or scripting).

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Thanks for the responses!

The best results I could get (which are different than the manuals recommended) is to export a FBX and check “Include Media”. At least the actual diffuse textures work that way, and then you can do the rest from there.

I think multi-materials works if you do it like that. Hope that helps.

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This is an issue, but I think coming up with a naming convention and using AssetPostprocessor could make automating this process possible:

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Now that’s a cool class :smile:
But I hope something has been done on U3 on this side :wink: