Export textured mesh files to obj

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Hello, First time on the forum, looking to confirm the workflow for exporting textured mesh files (from imported ply files) to textured obj files. Thanks

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Hi scedarleaf - are the texture/image files coming with the ply files?

-Pascal

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Hi Pascal, No. Here’s the workflow, I export textured ptx files and import textured ptx to meshlab then export textured ply and then import textured ply to Rhino.

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Hi scedarleaf - can you send us one of these? (tech@mcneel.com), If the ply comes in with texture maps, that’s one thing but if it’s got vertex colors, that’s a different thing…

-Pascal

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Pascal,

I’ll upload in the morning. I texture map the point clouds in Cyclone and
export the ptx and the process mentioned earlier. The textures hold all the
way into Rhino.

Thanks,
Scott

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Hi Scott - the mesh has vertex colors, not a texture as a texture map - V6/WIP supports exporting vertex colors to obj (under the Mesh tab in the export settings dialog) - I’d try that.

-Pascal

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Hello and happy new year.
ply export works well on sketcfab.
obj does not export colors correctly
fbx failed
alea rhino6.3dm (1.2 MB)

rhino version: 6.0.17355.10131, 21/12/2017

link to sketchfab

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Hello - can you please describe exactly what you’re doing in Rhino and what does not work? I can’t tell if you’re complaining about export or about a different program’s import or what exactly.

-Pascal

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Hey Pascal,

This is following up from our email exchange back in September. I had a
problem in Rhino 5 that when I export an imported textured ply file to obj,
the textures would not export.

Scott

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Hello Pascal. Not complaining at all. Just sharing.
The fbx export failed, with this file. So that is Just Rhino Beta.

For obj & ply, Both can be exported but only ply gets the material correctly.
I do not know if that is the Rhino Beta or sketchfab.
The linked sketchfab file is from ply.

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The file has the FBX export fail because the scene contains linear lights.

See RH-43370.

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It is ok to complain! I was not complaining about the complaining, I just could not see exactly what the issue was…
I think it’s sorted now…

-Pascal

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Well, not sorted, just understood :wink:

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Fix for this in v6 will be in the first service release.

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RH-43370 is fixed in the latest Rhino 6 Service Release Candidate