Whats the difference on importing .blend or .fbx files?

[AlexandreRangel]

Hello Unity friends,

I’ve been using, with great success, the workflow of modelling in Blender, saving the .blend file directly in the Assets folder and the model comes with materials and animations into Unity. If I need to change anything, I just open, change and re-save the .blend file.
Is there any advantage on using the .fbx format?

Thanks!

[leftshoe18_1]

Answered here

Importing a .blend is the same as importing .fbx, since Unity doesn’t really import .blend, it just makes Blender open in the background and export .fbx. Using .blend means you can just save the file and it will be usable in Unity, instead of having to go through the export process manually and keeping two separate files (since you can’t import .fbx into Blender).

–Eric