Simple utility to dump an FBX binary into a readable text document
Just run fbxdump.exe my_file.fbx and it will spit out the file my_file.fbx.dump containing the human readable dump of the fbx. Thats it.
I've provided a pre-built exe with a test fbx file (just a default Blender scene with a cube and camera), so hopefully there shouldn't be much setup to get it working.
Here's an snippet of the output from the test fbx file:
...
'Geometry':
{
(Long) 876144110
(String) 'Cube.002'
(String) 'Mesh'
'Properties70':
{
}
'GeometryVersion':
{
(Int) 124
}
'Vertices':
{
(Double[]) -1.000000, -1.000000, -1.000000, -1.000000, -1.000000, 1.000000, -1.000000, 1.000000, -1.000000, -1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000, -1.000000, -1.000000, 1.000000, -1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000, -1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000,
}
'PolygonVertexIndex':
{
(Int[]) 0, 1, 3, -3, 2, 3, 7, -7, 6, 7, 5, -5, 4, 5, 1, -1, 2, 6, 4, -1, 7, 3, 1, -6,
}
'Edges':
{
(Int[]) 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15,
}
'LayerElementNormal':
{
(Int) 0
'Version':
{
(Int) 101
}
'Name':
{
(String) ''
}
'MappingInformationType':
{
(String) 'ByPolygonVertex'
}
'ReferenceInformationType':
{
(String) 'Direct'
}
'Normals':
{
(Double[]) -1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, -1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, -1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, -1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, -1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, -1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, -1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, -1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, -1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, -1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, -1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, -1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000,
}
}
'LayerElementUV':
{
(Int) 0
'Version':
{
(Int) 101
}
'Name':
{
(String) 'UVMap'
}
'MappingInformationType':
{
(String) 'ByPolygonVertex'
}
'ReferenceInformationType':
{
(String) 'IndexToDirect'
}
'UV':
{
(Double[]) 0.625000, 1.000000, 0.375000, 0.250000, 0.375000, 1.000000, 0.125000, 0.500000, 0.625000, 0.250000, 0.875000, 0.500000, 0.375000, 0.000000, 0.125000, 0.750000, 0.625000, 0.000000, 0.875000, 0.750000, 0.375000, 0.500000, 0.625000, 0.500000, 0.375000, 0.750000, 0.625000, 0.750000,
}
'UVIndex':
{
(Int[]) 6, 8, 4, 1, 1, 4, 11, 10, 10, 11, 13, 12, 12, 13, 0, 2, 3, 10, 12, 7, 11, 5, 9, 13,
}
}
}
...
So here the lonely quoted things are nodes, ('Geometry', Vertices', 'PolygonVertexIndex' etc.)
The data in-between the brackets {} are, in order:
- The properties of the node. It will display both the type and display-value of the property (note that in the actual file these aren't represented as strings).
- The children of the node, starting with the first, then going through each sibling (ther order is specific).
Note that these aren't JSON files, FBX files can't really be represented in JSON in a clean way. Its just the formatting that is a bit similar, because they are quite readable.