How to Import BLENDER FILES into Unity - Step by Step Tutorial

In this video, learn two ways to import Blender files into Unity with textures!
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Introduction
0:30 - Importing a Blender File Directly
1:52 - How to get texture images out of Blender and into Unity
3:29 - Applying texture files to a Blend file in Unity
5:51 - Exporting an FBX from Blender
6:45 - Importing an FBX file into Unity
7:25 - Other Unity Tutorials

[@TheRealTimeEssentials]

Hi everyone! Let me know if you have any questions about this in the comments below! :)

[@GooningGarry]

It says I have no files to unpack

[@youdontneedthisinfolol5883]

U need to pack them first like our dude is explaining in the beginning

[@joshsheppard6892]

It says i have no files to pack/unpack.

[@joshsheppard6892]

@@youdontneedthisinfolol5883 we did, it just says theres no files to pack.

[@hotdoggo981]

@@youdontneedthisinfolol5883 when i click pack all into .blend it says "No new files have been packed" u know why?

[@Crashlikag6]

Thank you Mark Zuckerberg This was just what I needed

[@imsorryskittlez]

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[@ottaviapittaluga]

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[@Rickyhoy1]

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[@Totallyexistent]

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[@kretoskim8555]

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[@SlickFX_TF]

You saved me, yet again! Thank you Justin! I tried all weekend to import assets into Unity and your video solved my problem. I am completely new to this and tried importing straight to scene without creating folders first and nothing ever worked, untill I watched this!

[@mandals1914]

Was having trouble finding a video about this that wasn't overly complicated or out of date. This was perfect though and told me everything I needed to know. Thank you so much!

[@TheRealTimeEssentials]

Awesome - glad it helped! :)

[@tylerlarimore3449]

Very quick, informative and understandable! Thank you so much. Just brought me a step closer to my goal!

[@wizrdpnguin5778]

you'll fail.

[@MeShellTiel]

Thank you so much! You are the only tutorial guy that actually explains it in an easy to understand way.

[@_-.-_.-__]

this was unbelievably helpful, seriously spent the last hour trying to figure out what I did wrong until i found this video, thanks

[@BrookMesfin]

Great tutorial man, clear and precise.

[@noodlepoodleoddle]

Super quick and useful, this is great guide and thank you for putting the time in to create it :)

[@nathanjohnson4294]

thank you SO much!!!! this was super helpful and NOT obvious, so thank you so much for figuring this out and explaining in a clear cut manner!

[@jackh_irl]

When I get further in my career, I'm giving you a hefty tip dude. Honestly, you've taught me more than my degree did.

[@Mr_Poole]

That first part about external data was a HUGE help. Thank you so much for such a clear, conscise, tutorial. I really dig your flow of things, m8. Thx! A like and subscribe from me.

[@MineBoyChannel]

Oh my God thank you! After so many tries I finally understood how to import model textures in Unity!

[@user-ru5gn9fl6e]

Really good explanation and really easy solution. Thank you

[@BottomBroskii]

Thanks man! I had trouble finding a good tutorial about importing models and textures from blender to unity because I am making a game

[@victoriajames5669]

This was the tutorial I needed. Thank you!

[@TheRealTimeEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@urmomlolgottem]

It only took me a year to figure out importing textures thanks for the help bro

[@weaponofvoice]

That's made my life a whole lot easier, thank you!

[@Lyttii_]

Thanks, was searching an answer to this for hours!!!!!!

[@darkoverlordz9440]

Super simple to understand tysm

[@thebrainstormemporium4526]

Amazing tutorial as usual, thanks.

[@TheRealTimeEssentials]

Glad you liked it!

[@HighFantasyStories]

Thanks for explaining the process, it helps. Im trying to apply textures with alpha, mainly a cloud asset scene. maybe ill be able to figure it out with this.

[@TheRealTimeEssentials]

I think I talked about that a bit in this video - kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmq1g2p6mbSqo7s

[@OSIRISxp19]

this is exactly what I needed

[@Emma-vh9kw]

Thank you so much, I can finally make my models look amazing in Unity and look natural! Thank you so much, I have been trying to figure out how to do this, thank you so much

[@MaryArts]

Thank you so much. Sadly I can't import video-materials with nodes that are animated. Also the start time of the video starts at a certain frame and not at start of the playtime. Is there a way to import these settings or not?

[@harican89]

i'm currently in the process bringing a layout from my apartment from blender into unity. my background is hobby 3d with more like 3d print. so textures aren't my thing. your video is very informative, but iam wondering if it is still necessary to bake those textures first. especially the "normal, difuse (albedo), glossy, metal" and so on. so many bakes and node-setup for the materials so they wont get losed. :-(

[@Crxck3r.]

thank you so much this helped so much man!

[@sookchaisu]

Amazing tutorial Thank you so much !!

[@Zeix02]

Thank You! What is with a simple glass shader? How can i import to Unity?

[@mohara_nascimento]

Thank you, awesome video!

[@lilianugwuja7645]

this was so helpful thanks

[@fajaranugerahiskandar9775]

Thanks for help this help me a lot for my thesis :)

[@lansgameplays2869]

hello sir, i have a question : so if im doing pack then unpack the file include the texture, do i need the baking all of the texture?or just do exactly on this video?

[@hplovecraftmacncheese]

You have a very nice instructional flow and delivery. Good content. I'm glad I found your channel. Question: how come it seems to be black in Blender but then it appears brown in Unity? Or am I hallucinating?

[@faustaodoxvideos3944]

I was worried about importing high detail materials to unity, but now i understand

[@usuallyleo]

I have an issue importing 3d scans to unity... I have a laser scan that I edited in blender, after exporting as fbx it also shows the textures as 7 materials when I open the fbx in blender. somehow in unity those 7 materials are all default and without texture, what am I doing wrong

[@runch21]

thank you the GOATTime GoatSentials

[@ww1593]

Fantastic Video!

[@MM-pl5ed]

Do softwares like iClone, MetaHuman, DAZ Studios, Character Creator 4.0, Constructor 3.0, Maya Studios, Blender, 3DMax export created characters as .json extension files too?

[@Omnivoid22]

I have a question. Does the material name, image texture( i bake to), and png file all have to have matching names?

[@TricoliciSerghei]

Thanks for the video!

[@tommyagnew]

Very helpful, thank you!

[@TheRealTimeEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mnrs2562]

Hi, could you tell me why colors change in unity. Importing with fbx and the color goes pale. How can i fix it?

[@dimavoitovych1739]

Thanks for tutorial!!

[@jayosonic]

Would this work if my model has a modifier like shrink wrap

[@OdysseyAviation]

Thanks, but the z (forward) axis coordinate should be in the direction that the chair faces ? no ?

[@haideral5594]

man.. thanks so much. you saved me a lot of trouble

[@OTGSavage]

so i took a few models and put them togrther and it wont upload corectly to unity, its in the file but wont let me put it in

[@Spectz_lol]

I dont see the "Pack all into blend" did i do something wrong or did blender just update?

[@Classic-3]

when i do it it just is a file and i cant just drag and drop it into my unity project

[@hyeinshin2511]

Hi thanks for your great tutorial! I still have a question tho.. Would it be possible to export "collections" from Blender to Unity so that all the meshes are still well grouped in Unity? Or is there any other way to group them?

[@SkrapProductionsLLC]

I group them by parenting to empties, then exporting the empties along with the meshes. Unity retains the hierarchy you used in Blender.

[@ChromaticFBT]

so the problem is that there is multiple texture files for one material, like if i had the clothes, theres more than one base colour in one material. any help?

[@WoomiestWoomy]

hey so I have a low-poly tree, and I cannot find anything on how to add my opacity map to the material

[@FinntheSquire]

I have a model that I want to add on top of another model, It's a helmet I want to put on my person. How do I get the helmet onto my person?

[@HussinKhan]

Is the workflow to Unreal the same? Thanks Justin!

[@Al-tg7ok]

Needs more likes. Maybe show the quick easy way first to not scare off the people looking for that basic blender model drag & drop into unity affirmation. The technical way to manipulate things was the most useful for sure. Thanks dude

[@georgehoffman9307]

Great video!. It works for me - almost. With just a unit cube and brick texture I can import the image using the pack unpack method but the scale of the texture in unity is wrong. Blender shows 12 rows of bricks but unity shows just 3 after importing. Any ideas how to fix that? I can fix probably for simple objects but maybe becomes cumbersome with bigger models and more textures

[@Omnivoid22]

did you figure it out?

[@furkanaknc1110]

Sir i modelled grass in blender. I used shading and I used mapping tool in shading screen but I can't export blender mapped version of my texture. Also I used hair for grass and I can't export hair too can you help me

[@Tischpflanze]

Very Nice

[@zoujingxiang6167]

Thank you for teaching! Hand up, when I import blender file to unity, it is just a file and can't do anything on it. I am using Unity 2020 vision, maybe because my blender is downloaded on stream?

[@Omnivoid22]

blender is on steam

[@SuperSonicPyro]

What do i do if unity isn't letting me put a blender file into the main workspace by dragging from the bottom?

[@3in140]

Mahnn you really helped me...Thank you so much brother

[@TheRealTimeEssentials]

Glad to hear that!

[@polyforge3d]

But what about -90 rotation and 100 scale when importing FBX? How to make it rotation 0,0,0 and scale 1,1,1?

[@bushman1466]

Could I use a time lapse in Unity as my sky?

[@SquashuaGames]

I have no clue if anyone will see this but I'm so confused. I have imported them but they won't go into the scene. It gives an error of blender not found. However, when I click on them, it opens up blender automatically. If I select "open with", it says blender is set to default. any clue why the files wouldn't load?

[@tomasmugicamoreno8499]

Hello, for some reason my FBX file still doesn't have any of the textures?

[@Adrian-ne6mt]

where do i put my roughness texture map?

[@Hazzeron]

I made my materials, i cannot pack them to unpack them to get the image for the materials, how do i do this?

[@zvitamini]

you are a hero ♥

[@leagueofsaanss5571]

I have a question. Would you recommend Blender or Unity for a realistic landscape that will later be used for a game? I'm quite comfortable with Blender, and it's close to realistic modelling. But I wanted to ask someone who knows more first.

[@hippoatwork7261]

thanks for providing .

[@monthlyyangyang7834]

Great tutorial THANKS!!

[@NostraNam]

My model from blender doesn't receive light unity? How can I fix it?

[@oldruggedimaginarium]

Love the video

[@hotdoggo981]

Nice video, but im having some problem exporting the materials, when i click pack all into .blend it says "No new files have been packed" Can u help me pls?

[@Hazzeron]

Im getting this too, did you find a solution?

[@catchingsky334]

I think that happens if you are only using procedural materials. Then you have to bake them and then pack them.

[@sgtghost17]

Awesome video

[@PixelTheGadgeteer]

Great tutorial! but my models texture keeps showing the rest of the model white, idk why it does that but weird asf

[@Omnivoid22]

Is there an update vid to this or is this video still relevant?

[@SARANO-OK]

Thank you sir this help me much

[@w_4.izzy_editzz]

Very good thanks

[@tomu.3285]

a very helpful guide, but what can i do if the texture images were edited with nodes before i moved them to unity? it seems like most of them were removed, and im left with a mess of a sword

[@malapple]

thats what im trying to figure out.

[@Pax_the_Casual]

Amazing tutorial explanation as per usual. I only seem to have run into one issue that being I don't have those options in my "External Data" dropdown menu. Using the newest version of blender.

[@user-hu3vn1rt9u]

what did you do insteadof that option because i cant find it either

[@thomastrasser3464]

also having this problem :( please helpp

[@tylerisadumb]

@@thomastrasser3464 Uncheck automatically pack resources, then select unpack resources.

[@Cdeez44]

where can i change the default program

[@MrKiraBR]

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!

[@user-zr9wo7sr1g]

"pack all into blend" doesn't show up in my blender. what should I do? I am using a translator

[@frankreiser_recaremo]

Hi thanks for all your content. Amazing videos. One question - did it also work with b3d 3.2.1 and Unity 2021.3.x LTS? I want to import Blenderfile als new asset, but after 5 min. nothing happend. Well I think the Blend-File isn't compatible with Unity yet.

[@frankreiser_recaremo]

Funny thing by the way. I cancled import with the task-manager - without closing Unity complete - only the b3d import. And the file was there in Unity. To extract the materials need a few minutes.

[@cgimadesimple]

nice tutorial :)

[@mayamaya-lc6iy]

Thank you

[@V13nn]

наконец-то я нашёл, спасибо огромное ))

[@MiguelAnton1994]

Not my first time here, and not the last one either. Thanks

[@MiguelAnton1994]

Indeed, I'm back.

[@Wiczey]

2:02 i dont have Unpack all in to the files Why?

[@daisukideshou]

why doesnt the unpacked folder shoiw up anywhere?

[@pliantphoenix4063]

What is the difference between these 2 methods?

[@mauriciolavin]

Thanks for sharing. No way to import fbx files, mats and textures to get started with a ready model? Because I did the same process over and over again. Or maybe a massive process to update many 3D objects? If you have a file with a lot of textures and their names are meaningless, maybe you never added it to a model material and you never knew it was losing quality.

[@TheRealTimeEssentials]

I don't understand. Isn't that what I did with the second way to do this?

[@lilteddy531]

Does this apply with UEFN

[@Raul-ef6ct]

Thank you my friend 😇

[@loliiiboy3903]

well when i import it half the meshes are see trough i mean i can see the other side of the mesh how do i solve that?

[@forwardvector]

its backface culling. Unity does it as a optimization method. You can turn it on to see the invisible faces in blender. To fix this there are videos that show you how to recalculate your normals.

[@hashempapa8168]

tnx for d tutorial

[@liomori.1980]

I export as .fbx, open the model with the 3D visor and everything is ok but, when I import it into Unity I don't see the texture. What I'm missing?

[@liomori.1980]

nvm, I solved it clicking on "Extract texture".

[@AHSedits99]

but when i import stuff its not like the way i made them in blender some of them arent in the same place