Hi,

we need to recover the source from an EE project. mostly the obj.

not sure if there is any trick that i might not be aware of regarding the "export" function in the editor.

if there anyway to do that fast, and if possible with the least amount of information lost ?
(bones / skin / texture / scale )

thanks

Why export? What you want to use it for? What's the goal?
Export to OBJ 3d format works but that doesn't support bones/skinning.

Goal is to bring the 3d object back from EE to be able to edit in a 3d software

There's only support for export to OBJ file format but it doesn't support bones/skinning.
To preserve bones information you'd need export to FBX but that's not supported.
Alternatively you can perform basic editing in esenthel - mesh editor, bone editor, skin editor.
Try reaching out to developer of the asset maybe they still have the source fbx file.

what about the texture ?

is there anyway to get the texture out of the EE material ?

no, sorry

Yes but that's after packing channels and with texture compression loss. It's not the same as original

i did try to do that, using export() but the output came out as false for some reason.

i will try again tonight

export should work even without IMAGE_SOFT or locking, if it fails, then most likely the output save path is invalid.
But thanks for trying to help Zervox

You can also look at:
ExtractBaseTextures
MtrlImages.fromMaterial
functions in the Editor source code, that does offer ability to extract base textures, but they're after lossy texture compression.

yes the path was incorrect, i got it working ! thanks !