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Write FBX

For a handoff to a DCC package where the rig has to survive, FBX is the format and this is the node. It goes out through the bundled FBX SDK.

When to use it

For a handoff to a DCC package where the rig has to survive, FBX is the format and this is the node. It goes out through the bundled FBX SDK.

Inputs

Pin	Type	Description
`Mesh`	Mesh	The mesh to save. Bones, skin weights, UVs and materials all come through.

Setting	Type	Description
`Coordinate System`	Choice	Handedness written into the file's header, so the app opening it knows which way round the mesh is meant to be.
`Front Axis`	Choice	Which axis the file should call forward.
`Up Axis`	Choice	Which axis the file should call up. Set it to Y for Maya, leave it on Z for anything coming back into Unreal.
`Scale`	Number	Multiplies every vertex position on the way out. Leave it at 1 to keep the mesh at the size it is here.
`Export As ASCII`	True/False	Writes readable text instead of binary. Handy when you need to look inside the file, but it runs about five times bigger.
`Vertex Colors`	Choice	What goes into the vertex-colour layer: the mesh's own colours, one flat colour per material section (the same colours the sculpt viewport shows in Section Colors), or nothing.