Texture not updated when reimporting model

kitfox

I created a character model in Blender, exported it as GLTF and imported it in Godot. I then went back into Blender and used it's texture painting tools to further modify the diffuse texture. I then exported again and reimported into Godot. However, for some reason Godot is insisting on using the old texture for the material. Godot is able to load the texture image itself correctly (if I click on ciderman-diffuse.png it is displayed correctly in the resource brower), but for some reason body-high_001.material is still referencing the old diffuse texture. I am not even sure where the image resource it is referring to is located since it is not listed in the material properties.

I've tried deleting the .material file and reimporting, but I'm still getting the old diffuse texture. Restarting Godot didn't help. How do I fix this?

TwistedTwigleg

Maybe the texture is embedded in the GLTF file?

It could also be that it is referencing it from the .import file, though the file in there should be overridden when you place a new image with the same name and press reimport. You could try searching for the file name in .import and then deleting any files with the name and see if that forces a reimport, which might fix the issue if its reading the file from .import.

kitfox

It looks like the texture is embeded in the gdb/gltf (Blender does allow you to export it with textures separate, but it generates new textures rather than using the ones referenced by your Blender material). I don't want to delete my diffuse texture because it is the only file with my diffuse image and Godot does not seem to be using it anyway. I tried deleting the .import files and that caused Godot to reimport, but did not fix the problem.

Since the textures do seem to be embedded in the glb/gltf, I would expect deleting the material would cause new textures to be generated but this does not seem to be the case.

kitfox

I changed the name of the material to 'body' and reexported, and this seems to have fixed the problem for now. But this isn't a good solution. I can't keep renaming the material every time I need to update the textures.

cybereality

Godot doesn't reimport textures/materials when you update a model, only the mesh. It's an option in the re-import tab to replace the materials.