Let’s pretend for a moment that you’ve done all your editing in Blender and now ready to export your mesh.

Blender FBX export (Skinned meshes)

1. Prepare your mesh(es) for export.

   • Make sure that:

2. Select what you want to export.

   • It’s easier to work with selects and not export the whole scene at once, so its highly recommended. Using CTRL+LMB, select Mesh(es) + Armature you plan to export. You can only export a single model at a time - so select just one mesh, (optional) its LOD levels, and Armature its assigned to - nothing else.

     

3. With your Mesh(es) AND Armature selected, go File → Export → FBX.

   

4. Setup your export settings.

   • As stated in RedKit Wiki + few more tweaks.

   

5. (optional) Save your export settings by Clicking “+” sign next to “Operator Preset”

6. When export setup is done, enter a name for your mesh and choose “Export FBX”.

   

Material Setup

Ding’s addon is the best tool for getting Witcher 3 meshes into Blender, for date. It doesn’t even compare with regular FBX import, as an FBX model loses few very important mesh attributes on Blender Import, that you’ll then have to manually fix (and its a pain in the ass).

However, since Ding’s Addon was built for W2Mesh → Blender → W2Mesh pipeline, and WolvenKit integration in mind, it doesn’t work as seamlessly with RedKit. To adjust for it, there are a few more extra steps we need to take.

Step by step:

• export W2MESH to FBX to get a base XML file
• in XML, adjust Material names to match Material names in Blender
• name both FBX and XML identically, but keep their exstensions (so name.FBX and name.XML) / keep vanilla name if you are replacing a model that already exists:
• import to RedKit
• check your imported W2MESH