Getting polypaint back from obj export

Moutrave

Hello !

I've sculpted a small object in zbrush yesterday and saved it as an obj instead of a ztool (I was planning on using it as a simple detail ztool on a base 2.5D tileable texture). Now when I opened the obj again in zbrush; I didn't see any of my color information. I tried creating a texture form polypaint, hit the colorize button, but sstill no colors.

I tried extracting the color infos with xnormal : it worked in some way, but well I didn't create the uvs for that object since I don't really need it for what I plan to do with it...so it's all messed.

Does anyone know if I can get my proper polypaint from zbrush when importing an obj? Or do i have to do the painting again and just...not make the obj export mistake again?

Thanks for the help !

Ghogiel

could try UVing a copy of the obj and bake in xnormal from the version with the poly paint to the one you just UVed.

Moutrave

Hadn't thought of it ! thanks I'll try. I find really sad though that Zbrush doesn't find its own polypaint in the obj it sucks a bit

passerby

Moutrave wrote: »

Hadn't thought of it ! thanks I'll try. I find really sad though that Zbrush doesn't find its own polypaint in the obj it sucks a bit

ya its because vertex colour(poly paint) isnt a feature in the obj specification, zbrush puts it into obj files, but appending it to the end of a obj file as commented out code, so that other packages ignore the content unless they use a custom importer, such as xnormal, or such as maya with goz.

if your opening it in zbrush why obj? why not a ztool.

What you could prolly do is open the file in a package that supports goz, than goz it back to zbrush.

If you link me the file, i could check it in a text editor to make sure the polypaint data is there, than goz it to zbrush.

Ghogiel

passerby wrote: »

if your opening it in zbrush why obj? why not a ztool.

He made a booboo> he doesn't have a ztool and he only saved an obj

What you could prolly do is open the file in a package that supports goz, than goz it back to zbrush.

If you link me the file, i could check it in a text editor to make sure the polypaint data is there, than goz it to zbrush.

Correct me if I am wrong... but I don't think exporting an polypainted obj from zb then importing into that say max, then gozing is going to bring the polypaint back across into zb?