How to use KFbxProceduralTexture with substance data?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

The support of Substances by the 2012.0 FBX SDK was announced:

* Support for Allegorithmic's Substance (procedural textures) has been
added to the FBX SDK core. Now the class KFbxTexture serves as the base
class for KFbxFileTexture, KFbxLayeredTexture and KFbxProceduralTexture.
KFbxFileTexture should now be used for bitmap textures, replacingKFbxTexture.

However the documentation is quite vague about how to cope with it. Basically, the KFbxProceduralTexture doc just says:

BlobProp
This property handles the raw data for generating procedural texture.

And the ProceduralTexture/main.cxx doesn't provide much more details:

// For this example we simply dump the binary content of a jpg to the 
// procedural texture's blob property.
// In the general case, dump whatever information needed for the procedural
// texture to the blob property.

Could someone please explain how the blob is supposed to be filled in the case of a substance?

Many thanks
-David

[viviane.rochon]

Hi David,

In case of a Substance, drop the content of the .sbsar file to the procedural texture's blob property.


Viviane

[Anonymous]

Hi Viviane,

Many thanks for your answer, I'll have a try.

[viviane.rochon]

Hi David,

Note that FBX SDK only provides the means to transport the Substance. It does not have a means of interpreting the .sbsar file, or displaying the Substance.

Regards,

Viviane