Imported Mesh becomes black and doesn't allow me to change colours

This is a short post as I need urgent assistance with this issue, It has been a regular occurance for me recently and I need to find a way to overcome this.

What my mesh looks like imported:

What the mesh looks like in Blender:

All the parts are practically separated as I don’t want a texture on them, I simply want to just recolour each part separately.

If anyone could offer assistance ASAP.

(Here is the model if required: FixRequired.fbx (157.8 KB) )

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Try exporting this model as an .obj file instead of fbx, fbx file contains texture which overrides part color, if you want your previous models to use color instead of black texture check in their properties if they have any textureID, if yes then delete this ID, that should probably do the work.

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Yeah I tried exporting it as an .obj however it just keeps every part into 1 mesh which I dont want

Edit: I tried messing around with the TextureID properties however there is nothing there to edit.

Try saving it as an .obj and making it seperate.

That would take a long time as it would be like 30+ different parts

Maybe seperating parts where you need to recolor may be required for this may work

The parts are all separated but when I turn it into an obj it just makes it back into 1 part

Then try making the zones required to recolor be seperate Wavefront mesh.
Just make them seperate .obj files with copy/paste into new document

If you don’t want a texture for the mesh, one of your only remaining options is to separate the mesh into whatever respective colour/material you want the end asset to have. So join together all wood of one particular colour, all wood of another colour, all stone of one colour, etc, and export those joined objects into one .obj each.

This method can cut down an asset made of 30+ objects into three or four objects, which is much easier to import. Just check the Selection Only box while exporting the .obj so that it’ll only export the object you have selected.

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Okay thanks, I’ll try it out

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