It's important to test your assets multiple times at every point of the asset creation process, whether it is within Blender or after importing into Studio. See Testing Characters for more information.
Whether you are exporting your character for testing, or are performing a final export out of Blender, you must apply the appropriate export settings to ensure that Blender exports the proper character data.
To export your character:
- In the topbar, click File > Export > FBX (.fbx). The Blender file browser window displays.
- Set Path Mode to Copy and enable the Embed Textures icon.
- In the Include section, enable Custom Properties.
- Expand the Armature section and uncheck Add Leaf Bones.
- Enable Bake Animation.
- Expand Bake Animation and uncheck NLA Strips, All Actions, and Force Start/End Keyframes.
- In Bake Animation, set Simplify to 0.0.
- Click the Export FBX button. Save the .fbx to the directory of your choice.
After exporting your .fbx file, see Testing Characters In Studio for steps on importing your character model into a test place and verifying your avatar and related components.
After importing the Model character to Studio, you can now perform the following with this asset:
- Upload the character to the Marketplace.
- Use the humanoid character on an existing experience by applying a HumanoidDescriptionto the Model object.
- Save the asset to your Toolbox to share or use within any of your experiences.