The new avatar importer gave us access to some cool new api for importing fbx files. I spend a lot more time importing normal meshes compared to custom characters, so I’ve modified the avatar importer to work as a normal mesh importer. This has sped up my workflow a huge amount, so I thought it might be useful to some of you as well
This plugin (when clicked) will simply open a window where you can find and select the mesh you want to import. Once you click okay, it will import it into studio and place it in workspace.
You can get the plugin here, or if you want to view the code/publish it manually you can get that here. I’ve added very little of my own code, it’s mostly the remnants from the avatar importer plugin.
You can see how quick it makes importing a reasonably complex mesh:
I fully agree. I usually open a blank place to quickly import/prepare a mesh before I use it, and needing to publish the baseplate to an actual game I owned was always a pain.
That and having to scroll through all the files you’d imported in the past to insert the most recent ones into workspace
Especially considering the simple fact that in order to upload multiple Meshes, you have to use the game explorer, or used to have to use it, which takes way more time than is needed.
There’s always that one ingenius member on the DevForum who uses features wrongly to make something very useful (you shouldn’t be using ImportFbxRig to import single meshes, yet you did). Cheers.
Hey that’s pretty awesome. I’ll definitely make use of this. Having to insert a MeshPart and load it from the MeshId entry box was always a little bit of a hassle.
Like colbert mentioned, the new method does most of the heavy lifting. plugin:ImportFbxRig handles the file explorer opening and selection, uploading of the meshes and putting it in workspace. Essentially the only manual part I’ve done is made it clean up all the leftovers afterwards (as it also adds a HumanoidRootPart and some other character-related bits).
Sorry for asking, but why would I use your plugin instead of the normal Roblox plugin? I am scripting my own importer from scratch and am interested to see how others do to import their plugins
As far as I could tell when I made this plugin, there was no way to quickly import a generic mesh into studio. The standard way involved using the import button in the game explorer which requires multiple steps (and can be annoying if you mostly use locally saved files like I do).
Note that this plugin isn’t for importing an avatar like the Roblox plugin - it’s for a generic mesh like a tree or a teapot (though it uses the same API as the Roblox plugin). If there is a Roblox made plugin for doing this already, let me know
