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SMG edited this page May 15, 2026 · 18 revisions

Welcome to the xenoblade_blender wiki!

This addon provides import and export operations for various Xenoblade rendering file formats accessible in Blender under the File > Import and File > Export menus.

Resources

  • xc3_lib - command line tools for texture editing, model viewing, etc
    • Edit the model textures using xc3_tex. See the material node groups in Blender for which channels of each texture are used for outputs like specular or metallic.
    • Use xc3_viewer for quickly previewing models before testing in game. Make sure to set the appropriate shader database to preview material texture assignments.
  • xbc_ard_extract - command line tool for extracting files from the arh and ard
  • Xenoblade Rendering Research - learn about rendering techniques used in game
  • World Tree Research discord - Xenoblade reverse engineering and Xenoblade modding discord

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