Need Texture Mapping Advice

[bobtronic]

It seems there are no UV coords on you imported object. I would guess the textures are UV mapped in 3D MAX but the exporter didn't export them, not sure though.

Bob

[After5]

Thanks Bobtronic. You were right. After more research I found the Riptide plugin that allowed me to import the UVW coordinates from the OBJ, reset my textures and worked like a charm. I did run into a "Matlib Open Error" when executing plugin, but all UVW tags worked and texture mapped properly. Maybe because I am in 9.521 and plugin was for 8.5+.

[Keith Young]

...I did run into a "Matlib Open Error" when executing plugin...

I'm guessing that your export either did not include the creation of a .mtl file, or the .mtl file was not in the same folder as the .obj file you loaded.

A .obj file is a simple text file... if you load it into a text editor, you should see a line in there (near the top, or before the 'f xxxxx' records) like this:

matlib mymatfile.mtl

...that is the name of the .mtl file that Riptide will try to open to read the materials (including texture filenames) from. It looks in the same folder where the .obj file was for it. If that file does not exist (or there is no matlib record in the .obj file), then you get that error/warning.

If it finds the .mtl file, it fills in the materials as best as possible, including texture filenames - but keep in mind that C4D actually loads the textures, so you need to make sure that you've set up your Texture Path preferences in C4D to include any folders where you keep textures.

Cheers,

- Keith

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