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JoshOCasey
JoshOCasey
Inspiring
April 9, 2025
Question

Importing Glass models and tetures.

Hello Friends, I'm looking for a way to import glass models and textures. I've tried several variations of importing models/textures. From 1% opacity colours, alpha only pngs, etc. Models come in clean, textures always come in black. No other problems importing none glass models.

I design most of my models in 3ds Max then export .fbx with turbosmooth options turned off.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. If I missed a step, let me know.

Thanks,


4 replies

pabloflmeta
Meta Employee
April 9, 2025

This documentation here should help you out getting semi-transparent materials working:
https://developers.meta.com/horizon-worlds/learn/documentation/custom-model-import/creating-custom-models-for-horizon-worlds/materials-guidance-and-reference-for-custom-models#transparent-materials 

Let me know if it works out for you!

    JoshOCasey
    JoshOCaseyAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 18, 2025

    Hey Pablos, No such luck. Ive tried for several days to get a transparent material to import into Horizon. I taught myself the basics of blender shading as Im a 3ds max guy. 

    Ive followed many tutorials on glass and transparent objects for Blender. But I cant get any of the dozens of variations to import correctly. They all import white. I couldnt even get a cube to import transparent or glass like.

    The link you provided although helpful is vague to the actual importing a clean model. Alot of info seems to be missing or lost in translation.

    Thanks for your time. Any other suggestions?

    pabloflmeta
    Meta Employee
    April 18, 2025

    Would you be comfortable sharing screenshots of your current material/shader setup in Blender? This could help me identify what might be causing the issue.

    If you prefer not to share, I can try to provide some specific troubleshooting steps for Horizon-compatible transparency.

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