Enfusion Blender Tools – Arma Reforger

Enfusion Blender Tools (shortened to EBT) is a Blender addon allowing for a good workflow between Blender and Workbench, and Enfusion in general. Primarily developed and tested with 2.93 LTS. Works also with 3.1 release and above, but it's not officially supported.

Features

Import

• ASC elevation (.asc file) - import an ASC elevation file (Esri grid) as terrain mesh
• Arma 3 P3D (.p3d file) - import P3D
• FBX (.fbx file) - import FBX with Enfusion Shaders

Export

• ASC elevation (.asc file)
• Enfusion animation (.txa file)
• Batch FBX export (.fbx file)

Misc

• Object Tools - Various small tools helping with preparation of model for Workbench import
• Model Quality Assurance - Verifies if

Installation

Enfusion Blender Tools addon preferences

• Download Blender LTS 2.93.9
• Download Arma Reforger Tools from Steam
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  Arma Reforger Tools only appear if Arma Reforger is in your Steam Library.
• Install EBT addon from Arma Reforger Tools\Blender\EnfusionBlenderTools-Plugin.zip (do not unzip it!)
  • See How to Install Add-Ons in Blender
• Unzip Arma Reforger Tools\Blender\EnfusionBlenderTools-Data.zip to any empty folder
• In Addon Folders, press the '+' button and set path to the directory where EnfusionBlenderTools-Data.zip file was extracted (see image)
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  Make sure that this folder is always defined as the first one, any other addon folders must be defined after it.

Interface

Once addon is properly installed and activated, two new elements - (1) & (2) should be visible in main interface of Blender. Depending on used layout, right section of the menu might need to be expanded by clicking on small arrow on the right side of the viewport.

Top menu

In the top section of the viewport, Enfusion Tools (1) tab contains Import & Export sub menus where it is possible to import P3D, ASC file or FBX models and export ASC or TXA animations.

Import ASC

Import a .asc terrain file.

Import P3D

Discard unsupported LODs

LODs like View Cargo/Gunner/Pilot, Roadway, Hitpoints, Paths and similar will be discarded from the import.

Layer Presets

Assign detected layers (geometry, physics)

Game Materials

Rename materials

Rename RVMATs to Enfusion equivalents.

Convert axis to single point

Convert two points with default rotation to single point with orientation axis.

Import FBX

This option activates import of FBX with Enfusion Shaders

Remove All Objects

Remove any object present in the fbx file.

Export ASC

Export the terrain to .asc format.

Export TXA

Export the |animation to the TXA format.

Side section

On the right side of the viewport, Enfusion Tools tab (2) you have following options:

Model Quality Assurance

In this panel (3) it is possible to adjust and execute Model Quality Assurance script which checks for common configuration & topology errors in the mesh.

Settings

Settings panel (4) contains options for Batch FBX export

Object Tools

Object Tools (5) panel contains controls for automatic object sorting into collections

Material Tools

This section (6) contains options colliders setup, light setup & (re)import of Enfusion Materials into Blender

Tutorials

• Enfusion Blender Tools Tutorials