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I loved when 3ds Max had this feature in v1, way back in 1996!!! I really enjoyed live editing the non-destructable stack in Max in seeing the updates in combustion and Autodesk's other tools. And that was on an Early Pentium! I always wondered why this feature is not seen more? Adobe bridge is great too, and barely anyone uses it :/
I had to say, navigate in the scene and manipulate the meshes is way easy in Blender than Unity, with all the shortcuts one can go around really fast. sounds like a pretty cool way of populating a 3D level.
my guess would be that the light intensity issue is related to a unit/scaling difference between the two. Maybe one think the area being lit is 10m x 10m while the other thinks it's 1000m x 1000m. That's where I've seen this kind of issue before. Try tinkering with your default unit size in blender or unity if that has it.
The lights don't match across blender to Unity because blender has a rather arbitrary light value unit while Unity in HDRP uses real world units. The outdoor scene is also exposure was set for daylight but I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be adaptive and I expected to see something when you turned the sun off. It won't be easy to develop a solution for this because the lighting scale is difficult to map out 1 to 1 since the units have nothing in common. A great way around this may be to set your light values in Unity and change the exposure in blender to get it somewhat close. It might not work but it's worth a try.
Just tested it and no, it does not work on build-in renderer..it has to be URP or HDRP for the tools to run At least two scripts have issues on build-in so maybe someone could figure out those issues and get it to work
@@blahmandeep i remember i got several crash of the unity editor 2020.3.28f when syncing some geometry node in blender 3.0 but i was really pushing it besides that it was working as intended , am still using MeshSync0.13.1 on a blender 3.1.2 and unityEditor 2021.3.6f1 and its pretty stable with my workflow so i didn't see the need to upgrade to MeshSync0.17.1 yet
@@immersionevolution1210 what this video skips is how the end result is saved in Unity - as long as everything is live connected to your DCC application that application is in control of saving (blend file). but once you are satisfied, is there a way to save the DCC scene file to a game ready fbx as easily as it promotes changing the mesh? or do you have to do this manually?
@@mercartax when you link a blend file to your unity project it create a folder in your asset directory named MeshSyncAssets that contain a prefab of all objects that are present in the blender scene and you can bring them all to your scene or unpack for individuals,export fbx or whatever you wish to do and it is saved independantly but twice... actually you have the objects saved on the blend file side and the same objects are also saved on the unity directory side even if the blend file directory must live inside the unity assets directory for MeshSync to work
its stable future version will be good i hope, it will be time saver as everytime need to export , save etc and then again import to unity , if there is mistake again repeat everytingl
Neat, now its easier to do greyboxing in an easier to use authoring software rather than unity directly. Also Metasequoia support? People still use that? I remember picking it up like a decade and a half ago because it had a free trial and I didn't know Blender existed.
@@designator7402I was being *half* facetious. I do know and have seen some people using it in the past couple years (follow jp artists), but I don't know how they can compete with open source and paid alternatives. Maybe it secretly has some really advanced tech?
The whole installation part on windows is way easier. You just install the add-on in blender and then with a few clicks it installs everything for unity
Perfect timing! Today I finally dusted off that Blender 3 book I bought a while ago to finally give it a go (again). Why? Because I want to do some simple models and animations to use in Unity. And here you go, bringing me one of the few tools that I was missing from using Modo (Indie). I loved using Bridge, seeing changes immediately ingame and having changes going back and forth. This is a real game changer for me! Thanks! Regarding M1: It works on M1 Macs BUT only with the x64-Build of Blender 3.3.x - the Arm64/M1 build of Blender does not allow you to activate the plugin and crashes because of an binary-architecture-mismatch. Not sure if they will fix this - but the performance for now still works great (16" M1 Max with 64gb RAM in use here)
So in 6 months it's 0.17.2-preview, then nothing's going to happen for 3 years and then its status will be changed to "deprecated". Not that Unity would EVER do such a thing, but... 🙃
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Thank you for all the work you do in keeping us updated. With how busy life can be its impossible to keep up to date with all the latest tools and toys. Always recommend you when I can. Cheers 🍻
I had this on my radar a while ago, but haven't tried it yet. It's great that this gets wider coverage on your channel!
this is insane!!! downloading this instantly!
I loved when 3ds Max had this feature in v1, way back in 1996!!! I really enjoyed live editing the non-destructable stack in Max in seeing the updates in combustion and Autodesk's other tools. And that was on an Early Pentium! I always wondered why this feature is not seen more? Adobe bridge is great too, and barely anyone uses it :/
Those examples are within one company's software environment. This one in the video is across different companies. Might be a reason why it took time
Holy ¥√π×∆¢
I don't think we can understand the potential of this combined with geometry nodes just yet.
This is going to be a big one.
to be fair it works with other softwares as well but I understand what you mean
I had to say, navigate in the scene and manipulate the meshes is way easy in Blender than Unity, with all the shortcuts one can go around really fast. sounds like a pretty cool way of populating a 3D level.
Look up unity plugins like blender transforms or blender hotkeys
my guess would be that the light intensity issue is related to a unit/scaling difference between the two. Maybe one think the area being lit is 10m x 10m while the other thinks it's 1000m x 1000m. That's where I've seen this kind of issue before. Try tinkering with your default unit size in blender or unity if that has it.
Wow this looks amazing
The lights don't match across blender to Unity because blender has a rather arbitrary light value unit while Unity in HDRP uses real world units. The outdoor scene is also exposure was set for daylight but I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be adaptive and I expected to see something when you turned the sun off.
It won't be easy to develop a solution for this because the lighting scale is difficult to map out 1 to 1 since the units have nothing in common. A great way around this may be to set your light values in Unity and change the exposure in blender to get it somewhat close. It might not work but it's worth a try.
Solid insights, thanks for explaining
can't believe that this is free! definitely gonna try it
Pretty awesome way to improve workflows
Very awesome tool! thanks for sharing! :D
Looks very useful.
Sequoia is the new foliage.
Does it support syncing image textures? It seems that this was not shown in the video.
6:00 awesome!
lights are ok but hdrp has exposure as post proc volume for physically based values of lighting..
I wonder if a model and armature would carry over to unity? What about LOD
You mentioned URP or HDRP, no built-in support?
Just tested it and no, it does not work on build-in renderer..it has to be URP or HDRP for the tools to run At least two scripts have issues on build-in so maybe someone could figure out those issues and get it to work
Fact is, it does work on built-in pipeline. I'm using unity meshsync with blender 3.4 and its running on built-in pipeline.
How do I get it to export the materials from blender as URP? It always sends the material data as HDRP ☹️
Your light in unity seems to be a point light, it should be directional, no?
I really wish they kept this updated for current versions of blender, very sad it's such a good tool for level concepts.
Give us blenderSync to Unity, now that would be something xD
I'll have to check this bad boy out!
Incredible!
i ve'been using it for more than 6month its great
any issues ? or things i should keep in mind ?
@@blahmandeep i remember i got several crash of the unity editor 2020.3.28f when syncing some geometry node in blender 3.0
but i was really pushing it besides that it was working as intended , am still using MeshSync0.13.1 on a blender 3.1.2 and unityEditor 2021.3.6f1 and its pretty stable with my workflow so i didn't see the need to upgrade to MeshSync0.17.1 yet
@@immersionevolution1210 what this video skips is how the end result is saved in Unity - as long as everything is live connected to your DCC application that application is in control of saving (blend file). but once you are satisfied, is there a way to save the DCC scene file to a game ready fbx as easily as it promotes changing the mesh? or do you have to do this manually?
@@mercartax when you link a blend file to your unity project it create a folder in your asset directory named MeshSyncAssets that contain a prefab of all objects that are present in the blender scene and you can bring them all to your scene or unpack for individuals,export fbx or whatever you wish to do and it is saved independantly but twice... actually you have the objects saved on the blend file side and the same objects are also saved on the unity directory side even if the blend file directory must live inside the unity assets directory for MeshSync to work
@@mercartax thats what i wanted to know too
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I was wondering if once Text to 3D is inevitably implemented into Blender if Unity would have a competing Asset.
Guess that point is moot now.
Does something like this exist for Godot too?
My exact thought. I would actually pay for a tool like this.
its stable future version will be good i hope, it will be time saver as everytime need to export , save etc and then again import to unity , if there is mistake again repeat everytingl
Neat, now its easier to do greyboxing in an easier to use authoring software rather than unity directly.
Also Metasequoia support? People still use that? I remember picking it up like a decade and a half ago because it had a free trial and I didn't know Blender existed.
MetaSeq has a much bigger market share in japan than in the west. It makes sense that Unity Japan would work on supporting it (at least a little).
@@designator7402I was being *half* facetious. I do know and have seen some people using it in the past couple years (follow jp artists), but I don't know how they can compete with open source and paid alternatives. Maybe it secretly has some really advanced tech?
Doesn't Godot 4.0 have this built in for blender?
VERY
POWERFULL THING
But is there something like this for Unreal🤔
The whole installation part on windows is way easier. You just install the add-on in blender and then with a few clicks it installs everything for unity
wow nice tool
While that is nice, I would rather have control over the axes when importing a blend file.
maaaaan we need this for UE5
Perfect timing!
Today I finally dusted off that Blender 3 book I bought a while ago to finally give it a go (again). Why? Because I want to do some simple models and animations to use in Unity. And here you go, bringing me one of the few tools that I was missing from using Modo (Indie). I loved using Bridge, seeing changes immediately ingame and having changes going back and forth. This is a real game changer for me! Thanks!
Regarding M1: It works on M1 Macs BUT only with the x64-Build of Blender 3.3.x - the Arm64/M1 build of Blender does not allow you to activate the plugin and crashes because of an binary-architecture-mismatch. Not sure if they will fix this - but the performance for now still works great (16" M1 Max with 64gb RAM in use here)
Doesnt support 4.x LTS Sad
We need this for UE
if only we can get this for the unigine engine
Go do this for Godot 4 please!
good lord
It should be added in unreal
What manner of witchcraft is this?!?!?!
hey thnaks for the vid! i can only get the sync to work one way, blemder to unity. when i make changes in unity nothing happens...
Might want to change the title to say "Mesh Sync for Unity is Awesome" so those of us who don't use Unity don't waste our time.
🤡
Wow my computer I built last year is so much faster than yours. :p
Thank you for the demo!
So in 6 months it's 0.17.2-preview, then nothing's going to happen for 3 years and then its status will be changed to "deprecated". Not that Unity would EVER do such a thing, but... 🙃