obj texture coordinates

mvelasquez

Ok i know this shouldnt be this difficult. Ive always unwrapped in max so i never had to deal with this problem before. These days Ill completely unwrap a model in maya and export to an obj to texture in max.

The issue is none of my uv coordiates from the obj seem to display in max. it just shows up as the default z-axis planar map 0__o
I know its not the obj because i can open it up and see my unwrap in silo, maya, blender.. pretty much everything but max!

and yes, I have texture coordinates checked on the obj import. what else could this be? i tried this in both max8 and 9.
SAVE ME!

Daz

Im sure you've checked this, but just in case, are you certain that you only have one UV channel assigned to the geo in maya before export?

Rob Galanakis

http://www.guruware.at/main/objio/index.html

mvelasquez

Im so noob to maya Ill have to look that one up Daz.
Awesome link prof.420 that solved it!
..for shame max..for shame.

MoP

It's possible you just forgot to check the "Texture Coordinates" checkbox on the Max OBJ importer, because going between Maya and Max with default, out-of-the-box plugins definitely works

The better OBJ export/import plugin is pretty nice though.

Rob Galanakis

Sometimes I'd get the problem seemingly randomly, definately didn't have to do with the checkbox options. Actually now the guruware is causing me problems (not exporting to quads), so I'm back to use the default import/export... I always check my UV's, though. But while the GW worked it was fantastic (lots of nice and easy to understand options).

mvelasquez

im able to import obj texture coordinates if they were edited in max. then there is no problem at all and it works every time. I only get this when i setup the uvs from an outside app regardless of the texture coordinate checkbox.

Yah prof.420 i noticed the same thing too. The meshes are triangulated on export. I dont know about you, but the plugin just provided a second obj exporter so the original max one is still able to be used for clean non triangulated meshes