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Blender Models Not Importing

I have been trying since Monday to import an animated model from Blender 3D to Unity3D. I found somewhere that one should import the files directly into the assets folder with the .blend extension. I made my animation with an armature and a mesh attached to it and then tried to save it into Unity. Instead of getting a model with no animation clip (my life story before), I now get a little blender icon and NO model!!!

First of all, if anyone knows what I am doing wrong to not get the model imported, please comment. Also, if there is a magic way to make the animation clips appear, please comment. I can make the animations, but they never appear as an animation clip.

Thanks in advance!

P.S. This has really been bugging me.

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asked Jan 08 '11 at 04:32 AM

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It couldn't have been bugging you that much. These questions have been answered countless times here and on the forum.

Jan 08 '11 at 04:45 AM Jessy

Sorry for double posting then, but I could not find anything about models not importing from Blender (at least anything that was like my situation). As far as the animations go, I found a post/answer that said to use Armature animations, so I watched half a dozen different tutorials on how to make armatures and link them to meshes. Finally, I tried importing the .blend file into Unity, but that is when it didn't work. I looked around, but could not find any problems similar to mine. Again, I am sorry for posting a double question.

Jan 08 '11 at 07:10 PM AppTechStudios
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I hate to answer my own question, but I found a thread somewhere that that gave me the answer. I had Blender 2.55 (or whatever the beta is) on my computer and that was messing it up. I simply put it into my trash, saved the .blend file again, and everything worked.

I appreciate all of your help!

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answered Jan 08 '11 at 10:17 PM

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Go ahead and mark this answer as the correct answer. :) Glad you got your problem solved, and glad you posted the solution - that sounds like the kind of thing that would take ages to find.

Jan 08 '11 at 10:41 PM Loius

They require that you wait 30 hours before you mark your own answer as the correct answer, so I will mark it as soon as they allow it :) Yes, me too!

Jan 09 '11 at 11:38 PM AppTechStudios
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If it's really a .blend, then you're using a version of Blender later than 2.49, which doesn't allow this yet. Otherwise, you accidentally used a .blend1, .blend2, etc., which are automatic backups that Blender makes.

As for animation clips, they have to be bone-based Actions. IPO curves won't import. http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/18441/how-to-import-animation-from-blender-to-unity

P.S. Neither Blender or Unity have "3D" in their names.

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answered Jan 08 '11 at 04:40 AM

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Adding "3D" to everything is a sad modern trend. I blame Avatar. (Or, should I say, Avatar3D). It will3D get worse3D before3D it gets3D better3D.

Jan 08 '11 at 04:50 AM Eric5h5

At least we can look forward to space travel, when our space-cars will have space-TVs in them that fully space-support space-3D space. D:

Jan 08 '11 at 05:00 AM Loius

Really? I honestly thought that there was a 3D at the end of both of the titles! Thanks for letting me know!

Yes, it is really a .blend. I tried putting the file onto my desktop (where it said .blend) and then importing it into Unity. I also used some crazy file names that I would have never used in the past, so I doubt that Unity would rename them.

I am using Blender 2.49b, does that still work?

Thanks!

Jan 08 '11 at 07:16 PM AppTechStudios

I forgot to say this, but I am using Unity iPhone. I don't know if it makes it a difference not, but I thought that I'd throw that out there.

Jan 08 '11 at 09:57 PM AppTechStudios

No. Unity iPhone, and Unity 2.5 onwards have never given me the problems you are describing. I've been using Blender files in Unity since 2006 without your issue occurring.

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