Custom Painted Vehicle is sunken into ground and facing the wrong way

[emirkir]

Yes, the image and the title says it all.
Why is this happening?

I followed Avanya's guide on Steam (Retexturing existing models - A beginner's guide), but used a vehicle instead.
I exported the asset Scania Citywide LF (by DanDeKalb) with ModTools.
I edited the diffuse images and flipped the obj file (as the guide said), and then exported the obj to a fbx with all the settings as Avanya posted in her guide. The asset is working as it should originally, but as the image shows, that happened. Note that this is my first vehicle to repaint, the only thing I've done custom is to add more ice/snow on a road which is a bit easier.

Please help!
Thanks in advance.

 

[Avanya]

This is likely because Blender and Cities: Skylines don't agree on what is up. In Blender the z axis is up, in Cities it's y.

Try opening the file in Blender again. In object mode you right click on the model to select it, then press ctrl + A and select rotation and scale. Then export it again as fbx and try loading it into CS again.

 

[emirkir]

Thank you very much, it worked.
BTW your guide was very helpful!

Thanks again.

 

[Avanya]

Awesome! And great to hear it's still useful.

 

[emirkir]

Awesome! And great to hear it's still useful.

Some of the blender-instructions may need some updating, it looks a bit different now and the "flip normals" is moved I think. Took me a while to find these. But otherwise it's good and up to date.

 

[Avanya]

Yeah, it would probably be good to update for 2.8, even though I'm still using 2.79. But 2.8 is definitely better for newcomers.