nailed down importing FBX files with PBR textures pre-attached into Unity

extensive sleep alluded me i think i figured out the whole importing into unity with embedded materials thing

save the textures into the unity project with the same name (convention?) first. you do not need to embed media.

export fbx as normal, import into unity and voila

the project folder hierarchy may make a difference…

when this worked, it was:

assets -models -textures -materials