topic Re: Flipped / Mirrored Materials when importing FBX in FormIt Forum

Flipped / Mirrored Materials when importing FBX

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:39:55 GMT

When importing a FBX file created from Infraworks into Formit. The Materials are mapped backwards / mirrored. Is there a global fix to orient the material images files correctly?

Re: Flipped / Mirrored Materials when importing FBX

HeatherL011 — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:01:10 GMT

I'm not aware of a global fix. But, I'll look into it. I've been playing around with this workflow (IWX>FBX>FormIt) and there are alot of benefits! Did you verify that the IWX exported fbx has correct material mapping, but that when its imported to FormIt is when it gets mirrored? Could you send me a small fbx file exported from Infraworks that has the materials mirrored when its brought into FormIt? thanks.

Re: Flipped / Mirrored Materials when importing FBX

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:12:18 GMT

The import of the same FBX into Twinmotion/Unreal works just fine and is correct. This leads me to believe it is an issue with how it is importing.

Though I ran across a thread from 2016 on infraworks (which i can't refind) describing a very similar issue and it was noted as solved but no verification of the solution.

Re: Flipped / Mirrored Materials when importing FBX

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:21:36 GMT

Just Checked 3ds Max, and it comes in correctly there

Re: Flipped / Mirrored Materials when importing FBX

HeatherL011 — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:08:46 GMT

Thanks for the additional information. I confirmed the issue in FormIt v18.1. I also can confirm that it has been fixed by the team and the fix will be available in the next release.

Re: Flipped / Mirrored Materials when importing FBX

cmclean — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 20:02:34 GMT

Infraworks FBX import to 3D Studio Max is broken again. Doesn't work in Blender or the Unreal Engine. Older files work flawlessly. But files extracted using

2021 is awful.

Re: Flipped / Mirrored Materials when importing FBX

josh.goldstein — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 20:12:16 GMT

Hi @cmclean,

This is the FormIt forum, did you mean to post this in the 3ds Max forum?

Re: Flipped / Mirrored Materials when importing FBX

cmclean — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 20:14:58 GMT

I did. I'm sure Form It is having the same problem. Infraworks 2021 has an export problem