How to import a Maya FBX into Houdini with textures

so the first step to import your fbx from maya into houdini is you have to open file go to import then fbx and then deselect all of the items that you don't need and i just want to import my geometry animation and materials and you're going to hit this icon and then type in where your file is located and then import your fbx file that you got from maya of your animation and press import and it's going to come in really big so you're going to have to go into your fbx object and then select all of your geometry and also select your materials because that's where your textures are press control x and then go back to your objects panel and then paste them in there and i'm just going to organize my geometry and make it closer together and then move my materials and you're going to press tab and then type in null and place a null in your objects and attach the null to all of your geometry and then in the null uniformly scale them to 0.1 so they're not as big and now we'll start fixing our textures so in your objects panel go to materials inside your materials are all the textures that got imported with the fbx and i'm just going to move the ones i don't need aside and i'm just going to start with my butterfly texture in it i'm going to hit the texture tab use texture and base color hit that button and that's going to allow me to choose the image and i just have to find where my image is located select the image hit accept and now you've linked that image to your texture and i'm going to move on to the skull texture now i'm going to go back out to the objects node and one at a time i'm going to assign my textures back to my geometry so i'm going to start with the skull i'm going to go up top and click render i'm going to hit that icon and the materials that were imported are now in my objects panel so i'm going to drop that down then i'm going to drop down my materials and i'm going to choose my skull texture and now i've linked my skull texture to my skull geometry and i'm just going to do the same thing with my jaw now when my textures got imported in and reassigned they came in darker than i wanted so to fix that you just have to go back into your materials and select the material you want to change and up top you're going to hit the surface tab and you're able to change how your textures look in this tab and that's how you import your materials and reassign them and edit them in houdini

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Keywords: houdini, animation, how to texture things in houdini, how to, side effects, import FBX

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Length: 4min 3sec (243 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 14 2020