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Exporting *.obj files from Blender

Post by Nowic » Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:33 pm

Note:
If you want to export files from Blender as an Object file (File -> Export -> Wavefront (obj)) make shure:

1. You select all objects you want to export. For example all your mountpoints and your spaceship!

2. Load the correct tecxture file for your meshes into blender (a jpg or png)!

3. Delete unused materials.

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Post by Nowic » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:41 pm

4. The y-axis looks up in Orxonox (z-axis in Blender), so you have to rotate your model by 90 before exporting.

Interesting: http://www.fileformat.info/format/wavefrontobj/

http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~burkardt/data/mtl/mtl.html
http://www.fileformat.info/format/material/
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Post by Nowic » Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:11 pm

5. If your model is transparent in the engine (but shouldn't) you have to flatten you texture file in GIMP before exporting to delete the (unused) alpha channel. Image -> Image merge (or similar) german: Bild -> Bild zusammenfuegen


maybe I should make a wiki page....
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Post by Nowic » Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:40 pm

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Post by patrick » Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:10 am

Thx nowic for this superb howto :D

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