While the 3D importer is certainly a useful tool that streamlines development, there is one bug that has been quite bothersome.
When selecting the “Merge Meshes” option on the 3D importer, the settings “Insert Using Scene Position” and “Set Pivot to Scene Origin” do not work. Everything works fine WITHOUT “Merges Meshes” selected.
This bug has been occurring for a few months now.
Looking great!
Any chance of adding “Triangle Count” as a property to imported meshes? I’d even settle for an attribute!
The 3d Importer is great,
However, when we have some items inside the model’s name moderate, we wouldn’t know until we click “Import”
and then it gives us an error message and we have to start ALL OVER AGAIN,
Could we see a change in the future that may change this behaviour so we can go back to the import screen without having to start over?
I seem to remember it being mentioned that models that are uploaded through this can/will override existing models in the future – is this a feature that’s been added yet? Last time I tried using this it just created lots of models in my inventory that I can’t delete and that’s not a viable workflow for people that like organisation.
All these features are revolutionary for the production pipeline and QOL. I’m very excited to use them. Great work from the team(s) that worked on these features!
I do want to ask, are there any plans to raise the triangle limit for rigged meshes to a higher amount than 21,000? Although the triangle limit works for most types of rigged meshes, more detailed character meshes often don’t fit within that limit which is causing my team some issues at the moment.
It’s not actually a limit with the importer, but it’s with the engine. They made a post with the full explanation in a previous thread for the Importer:
Thank you for the link, that was an interesting read. Unfortunate news that this is due to multi-platform support, but I’m glad that the platform acknowledges that this is less than ideal and they’re looking into potential alternatives and solutions. I’m praying for more creative freedom on our side in the future.
Recently encountered strange functionality. Not sure if it’s intended or a bug so, I’ll just post it here. If you open up a fresh place, never save it and then, try to import an fbx without putting it in your inventory, nothing happens. It says it’s successful but, there’s no model in workspace, and no mesh in the game window.
Entirely possible that I’m looking in the wrong place. My assumption is that it should upload to the workspace like it always has.
Secondly, I would love to have a feature that either:
Let’s me rename my meshes (so I don’t have mesh_1, mesh_2, etc)
Lets me override (or provides an option) if the current mesh if the same is the same. Roblox clutter in my inventory (specifically with uploading meshes) is one of the most frustrating issues on this platform. It’s hard to find things. And there’s only so many names I can call something before I forget what it is.
Outside of all that, nice update.
.blend and .3ds are absolutely too software specific, they’re project files!!! They contain all of the raw settings and whatnot for the project alongside the geometry, trying to import the geometry from them would be a nightmare!!! Just stick with exporting normally
We have seen this happening, but not consistently, if you have a file that consistently causes this issue would you mind DMing it to me?
For renaming, you should be able to edit the name of the node in the settings page, that will rename the generated MeshPart? Is this not working?
Finally for reusing duplicate meshes, this is a very important feature that we are looking into, however it needs collaboration between a bunch of teams at Roblox to solve properly and probably won’t happen immediately. But it is something we are interested in solving.
Thanks for the report! We’ll look into this for sure.
This makes a lot of sense, it’s not the easiest thing to support, but we will consider this issue as we work on improving the UX over the next few months. We are reworking a lot of systems behind the scenes, and resuming a failed import might be something we can support down the line.
Are you talking about something like a read-only MeshPart property that just shows you the triangle count? It’s an interesting idea; it wouldn’t really be owned by the teams working on import, but we can certainly surface it to the relevant people.
Exactly! Yes please.
Some use cases:
Many things 
Being able to do a heat map would be fantastic for optimization-focused developers
Perhaps that’s what I saw then, does this update the actual model or does it add a new model to your inventory and update the package?
The model and the package are the same thing. Updates to a package update the model itself.
For example, if you import 3 times, updating the package with each import, you will only have 1 model in your inventory, not 3
Will there ever be a way to combat these “Unable to import” problems? For example, a retry button?
I have tried multiple blank, fresh new places (~5) and it’s always the same repro as:
It appears to only work if I upload my place file to my profile. It will not work if I don’t (local place file).
I went to rename a mesh that I have and it just uploaded “NAME (1)” instead of “NAME”. If I use the old importer, it does the same. I thought this was just feature parity.
Appreciate it and thank you for the responses. I understand these things take time. At-least there’s some form of consideration.