Fix That pesky freebie .obj with only one material for everything

mCasual

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjobjgrouptomtl

so you downloaded a freebie bike and there's only one material for the whole bike?

this script will create one material/surface per group name

it creates a copy of your .obj file with those changes in the same disk folder with the same filename but the suffix 'out'

WendyLuvsCatz

this looks handy

mCasual

thanks, it worked well for this bike though some parts would need to be split some more

WendyLuvsCatz said:

this looks handy

WendyLuvsCatz

yeah I spent literally hours selecting by parts and assigning to new surface on the Riot Games cinematic models with the geometry editor 

this would have been a godsend then

manekiNeko

thanks a lot for this very useful, very appreciated script! just made an incursion in newly discovered open3dmodels, found many interesting things - but i'll have quite a bit of work of format conversion from whatever to obj, then hopefully not much or no UV fumbling (edit: yeah... keep on dreaming...most of the UV get lost during conversion, taken the items actually had some. except fbx, but this format has other surprises), and of course the usual material panel war until they're daz-eable as props... so your script is an absolute must have! 

nitehawk_ltd

A link to the bike?

Hibernatus

Amazing! Thank you so much.

Greymom

Wonderful!  Very, very useful.  Many thanks!

 

Jan_Scrapper

Thank youi!

Faeryl Womyn

I know where it saves the new obj and its name but where would I find the new uvmap or do I have to create one after using this script.

mCasual

the uv mapping if there is one in the original file will be the same in the output .obj

if the .obj file has no UV coordinates, then you cant really apply image/textures to it and get something useful

except ...

if you use one of my UVmap creator scripts ...

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts3/mcjboxuv

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts4/mcjsphericaluv

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts4/mcjcylindricaluv

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts4/mcjplanaruv

 

 

 

all this script does is, for each group in the original file, a material with the same name as the group is created

if there is already more than 1 material in the initial object, this script is possibly not useful

 

Faeryl Womyn said:

I know where it saves the new obj and its name but where would I find the new uvmap or do I have to create one after using this script.

 

mCasual

nitehawk_ltd said:

A link to the bike?

i think it was this one , i was searching for the word Ducati because i wanted to make the image below

https://sharecg.com/v/54751/related/5/3D-Model/Ducati-Bike-Melod

i removed the bike stand by using Daz's Window/Panes (Tabs) / Tool Settings    then the Geometry Editor tool

FirePro9

Great tool, thank you!