Problematic exporting/Importing animated x3d with default blender export/import add-on

Blender version: 2.79

Side notes: blender also does not like Inline nodes for x3d; will try with the newest Blender version again; blender could also have some issues with exporting fbx humanoid models, investigating

Per this page (relatively maintained), blender does not support exporting key-frames for x3d.

Blender uses add-on scripts for exporting. The default importing/exporting add-on for x3d is called "Web3D X3D/VRML2 format". The documentation page shows that, at least till Blender 2.76, a lot of features for this add-on is still unfinished. The page does not mention animations specificically though.



A walk through

1. Exporting animated x3d

Tools: Blender v 2.79, a moving and rotating cube scene in blender: avalible here.

Export output. No interpolator/TimeSensor node can be found. Here is the result after importing back into Blender.

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2. Importing animated x3d

Try add a simple rotation to the previous file. Can be varified through Instant Player that it works fine.

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However, when imported back into Blender, the animation disappears again.

It can be expected that, complex humanoid models (or this version) have the same issue.

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