Mongame Content Pipeline: Compile FBX with embedded texture to XNB

Question

I have a FBX with embedded texture in it. And I can view the FBX displaying its texture in Autodesk FBX Review in another computer.

When I try to use Monogame Content Pipeline tool (MGCP.exe) to compile it to XNB it got error like:

path to texture not existed

So the question is does MGCP tool support to compile FBX with embedded texture into XNB? And does it produce a single XNB file for this? (Note that it works fine with FBX having external texture but it produces additional XNB file for the associated texture which is I don't want)

Do I need to write the custom FbxImporter to do this?

Answer 1

It appears that MonoGame is currently using an older version of the model importer library, that does not support reading embedded textures. So I'm afraid you'd have to write a custom FbxImporter or modify the MonoGame one with the latest Assimp version.

If I remember correctly, XNA produced separate files even for embedded textures. The model format was not designed to carry additional texture data. If you really need to have them in a single file, you'll have to also create a new content processor.