FBX Importing to Unity 2017/2018+ | Where did my textures go?

Missing the textures off your FBX import into Unity? Never fear, there are still there you just need to know where to look. Newer versions of Unity aren't exposing the textures and materials like it use to. Whether you're trying to get FBX models from Maya, Cinema 4D, 3DS Max or Mixamo, take a look through this tutorial that will help you fix the issue.
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[@nisaldon6268]

THANKS SO MUCH, i have literally being banging my head for few days over this.

[@keelanwalker]

Absolutely brilliant! Clear, concise and to the point. Fixed my problem within minutes and this is how all tutorials should be. Many thanks!

[@tinasongberg7270]

Thank so much for this, I've been struggling for days to try and fix this issue.

[@entreato]

Thank you very much! This is one of the most needed and rare to find explanations on Unity Game Developing.

[@marcolozano1348]

I had to search for some especific things and ended watching at least 3 of your vids. Subscribed! It worked

[@AdithyaUpadhya]

Thank you for this video. I checked several tutorials. I was not able to get the textures for a free 3D model I downloaded online. I followed your procedure and voila, my 3D model has all the materials and textures. Keep up the good work

[@HamdanBasri]

What a life saver, I formatted my PC and installed the latest Unity, and couldn't figure out what went wrong, thank you so much. This was really helpful.

[@x.xstudiogabrielharrisonhu6365]

I thought I was having trouble importing the textures. good video, helped me a ton.

[@joshubruh3642]

You saved my life literally. This whole ordeal has been killing me forever!

[@CanalLosManitos]

same

[@yassinetouili]

One of the best 3d tutorials. Excellent!!! Thank you so much

[@violetbrown6712]

Thank you so much! I spent a stressed hour on my own not knowing where I went wrong.

[@paperbob4302]

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[@williamkyburz]

Thank you for the heads up. Have a blessed day.

[@rbanister100]

EXCELLENT. You ALWAYS have the correct solutions to ALL THESE QUIRKS. Thanks again

[@amirnathoo4600]

Thanks for posting this incredibly useful video. I use Mixamo and Free3D sites a lot for my game prototypes and most of the time the FBX import is missing Materials or Textures. In my case the textures were completely missing and I had to apply them manually like in the video. It's a painful thing to do :-) but at least I get all my characters the way they should look. You have to play around with the different shaders to see which ones work best. The Legacy ones tend to work better.

[@VipinChaudhary14119]

WOW , i have been looking for that for a long time. Thank you it still works in 2019

[@TheMrbigtires]

Thanks for this! I got really lost on why my FBX files were importing normally but without textures. Still good for today!

[@TristanTheBeepBoop]

Thanks for the tutorial! Simple and to the point, no faffing around!

[@Beakfx]

I was looking for this. Upgraded to 2018 from 5.6 and the old ways were gone. Thanks!

[@jaydn23]

That was excellent help. Many thanks from another game developer in AUS!

[@JoshyHJoshy]

Thank you for such a detailed and helpful tutorial.

[@charleschen5342]

Thank you so much... I have been struggling on texture problem for 2 days...

[@kjellvanderzypen8479]

thank you very much, been having issues with this for ages

[@hydroweapon]

that extract materials thing was driving me mad, thank you!

[@shura11]

Holy cow I gave my self a tension headach trying to figure this out a few days ago Thank you so much!

[@mcaniberk]

Thank you so much. I tried to fix this about an hour before watching your video :)

[@nowl3491]

Thank you so much!! I didn't knew how to fix the problem with the shader

[@soulfliesonme]

Thank you. This had just started happening to me and it was driving me nuts!!

[@corey6796]

simple to the point and i learnt something , excellent work, thankyou

[@professor_ashley7069]

Precisely what I needed. Thanks so much for the video!

[@jeannedianeborabo9669]

i have encountered this problem just now, thanks to you ma'am that i was able to find a solution. thank youuuu. more power for youuuu

[@MrColinjsmith]

Thank you so much for the best, clear tutorial ever!

[@xXTigerWaveXx]

OMG thank you, iv'e trying to figure this out for a week

[@rynnxgaming7163]

THANK YOU, this is the only video I could find that works!

[@Luisch0]

Muchísimas gracias, me parecía el problema venía por ahí, pero como hace poco comencé en Unity, todavía me cuesta ubicarme. Solucioné todo con este tutorial...

[@phyzxengrmoore6928]

Wow! I just tried this and it worked. Not on FBXs but on .objs from Wings3D. I extracted to an extract folder, copied those to materials folder in project 'B' and there they be in Unity! So this means an extra step to get the embedded properties out. But I would rather click and dump instead of migrainic motions! My universe is repaired! This also means that the UV mapping is also spared from loss. I have this step to try next as I have previous mapped models to migrate. So a library type functionality is still capable as long as the embedded are extracted. What I have to try next is to extract the embedded to my main materials folder then re export the model to a Unity pkg from project 'A' and reimport to project 'B'. I will report the findings back here. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

[@jairamd2236]

Amazing, just what i was looking for. Thankyou very very much.

[@leallan69]

You are wonderful ! Thank you so much for this tutorial on Unity.

[@MrMannnMannn]

You are a beautiful human being, you have saved my life.

[@lunarpooch4398]

you are a beautiful person for uploading this!

[@oussamatabni8051]

Thank you ,this tutorial really helped meee Even in Unity 2019.3.7f1 :D

[@EverErebus]

i used mixamo but the materials tabs not showing up. send help

[@rhycker9040]

Thanks, finally a tutorial that actaully fixed this no texture problem for me!!!!

[@ghazeeranjum5462]

Thank you so much. You have solved a big problem of mine. Great Job

[@starchaser28]

Thank you sooo much for this. It has saved me a lot of time!!

[@HappyGiftGames]

Very helpful video. And right on the topic. Thank you for help.

[@WhatKiweeShow]

Thank you so much in 2023,it's still work!!!

[@tecnotips4749]

Thank you, really helped it still in 2021...great tutorial....cheers

[@MatthewShimura]

Great video! Informative and clearly explained

[@mrgatau]

thank you so much!!!, this is help me a lot, i was panic that i lost my material

[@mateus1zika]

thank you very much, I literally didn't know what to do anymore.

[@praveenpanishetti5279]

You Saved My Time .Thank You for This Tutorial

[@kkrazius]

This video saved my life!! Thank you!! 💗💗💗

[@abvijaykumar]

awesome..u saved my day...was struggling for quite sometime

[@lordyrich]

extract textures greyed out.

[@Yup365]

Ron lim same here. There aren’t any textures to extract

[@aussieraver7182]

Are you using the FBX exporter via Autodesk Maya? If so, ensure you tick the "Embed Media" tickbox when exporting.

[@Shmebby926]

@@aussieraver7182 where is that?

[@aussieraver7182]

@@Shmebby926 This is for FBX 2019 in Maya 2019. Once you go "export selection", on the right hand side under "options..", you'll see a drop down option for "File Type Specific Options" -> "Embed Media". Then tick the "Embed Media" box. Hope this solves your issue mate.

[@Shmebby926]

@@aussieraver7182 thx

[@1234567WAHID]

Awesome. I was searching it. Thank you

[@laranicole6388]

amazing..did exactly what I need it..project saver..!!

[@Netzerland]

awesome. briliant. Now I hope I can get it to work

[@mikevillano2560]

Awesome! Fixed iClone to Unity issue using 3DXchange

[@Amrith369]

Just encountered this issue yesterday. Thanks for the heads up on how to remedy it! :0)

[@phyzxengrmoore6928]

Your short timeline is a blessing. Others have been in this mystery for years.

[@hubsterandwifey]

Thank you so much! This video was so helpful.

[@xcmi8437]

Thank you SOOO much! This definitely solved my problem.

[@Zeennity]

Thank youuu for helping me!!!! I'm an Animation Student but i trying to learn about 3D Game software like unity.

[@pandarzzz]

Thank you for sharing this informative video!

[@siddharthtrivedi3322]

This solution worked for me in Unity 2019.2.11f1 version too - still this kind of import problem exist Thank you for this solution video :)

[@TheRedflash777]

4:40 - you could just change rendering mode from transparent to opaque for same result

[@iamthecombatmushroom]

Thanks so much for sharing this, doing my first game jam and was REALLY flummoxed by this. You are a legend!

[@wilismatrix9847]

Thank you my lady, you saved my ass, unity 2021 and they didn't fix this !!

[@ThiYellowMuffin]

This video solved my problem. Thank you!

[@sandro-nd6ir]

thank u so much, fixed all my problems

[@kumarvedantg2589]

Worked perfectly for me. Thanks!

[@darky4555]

Thank you for saving my virtual life.

[@waedecifer1290]

Still helps in 2022, thanks!

[@CanaldoCaverninha]

I LOVED YOU BEFORE, NOW I LOVE MUCH MORE!

[@passivepotato2922]

This still works to this day that is crazy

[@mohammeddelyar7183]

Thank you so much. I benefited from this lesson

[@koloooko]

That was really helpful for me, thank you! I have an additional question: I tried to import a FBX file from turbosquid, and I did what you said in the video, and everything worked fine, but the FBX file included a lot of different pieces, and I needed to apply the "Legacy Diffuse" for each component of each figure. So, here is the question: Is there any way to apply a Legacy Diffuse to all materials which you imported before automatically?

[@Gejam_GameDev]

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[@chadzulu4328]

Much thanks! Your videos are soooooooooo helpful

[@TheKingMJackson]

This helped me sooooo much, thank you!

[@grahamlamb7565]

Thanks so much - was pulling my hair out in frustration at this all day yesterday! Does beg the question why no default setting to extract them if they're embedded..?

[@frankberrocal]

Worked perfectly!!!!! Thank you!

[@humzaarfeen9087]

This helped me so much, thank you

[@hanndragggon]

Oh thank god, you saved me! :D Thanks for that video!

[@muzboz]

Beautiful, thanks Penny! :D

[@adamprokop]

Great tutorial, very helpful!!

[@IronBladeMusic]

thanks. this video was super helpful!

[@b4agraphics964]

Awesome video...very helpful

[@cosmology2773]

When trying to import the textures, I don't get that option (it's greyed out), but the import materials option can be clicked. When I import the materials, it's makes a new folder with materials in it, but they're all blank (just regular grey). I actually have to manually drag in all the texture images myself, and change the albedo for every single material to the texture for that material... Which is obviously an incredible pain, especially when you're working with dozens of objects that all have multiple materials. Any ideas of how to make it work as easily as yours did? Thanks for any help you can provide!

[@bula288]

Make sute that you check Embed Media when exporting your model from Maya. That fixed it for me

[@MaruskaStarshaya]

It wouldn't work if you have complex materials in your graphic application, so keep things simple - check which texture maps Unity supports and which doesn't and try to match it in your pipeline during your work in CG application.

[@GlammingGaming]

Thank you, saved my life!

[@meherech7703]

Thank you. You helped me a lot.

[@liyunliu7609]

I love you! You solved my problem! Thank you!

[@jaredkohrt5228]

For anyone using Blender to export fbx files, you have to change the 'Path Mode' option from 'Auto' to 'Copy' in the export window. If you leave it on Auto, the option to extract textures will be grayed out in Unity.

[@jofroop]

thanks so much

[@zapbolt5261]

Thank you so much my guy

[@TheSkorpioprince]

thank you sir.

[@SCUFFERCh]

Thanks, this is very helpful!

[@derekrieger4699]

This still does not work for my Unity. =( Maybe I am saving my Blender FBX files incorrectly. Doing the Extract Materials works, but the materials are white and I have to reassign a color. I cannot even find the textures and it does not let me extract textures.

[@yesifea]

great tutorial! well explained

[@GeniusHipHop]

Dope! Worked for me.

[@Luckysury333]

Helped a lot thank you