Hi, hope this is the right section for my question.
I'm trying and playing with imported obj, I've read that if I have a .mtl file, then Tg will be able to recognize different materials (also with their names). So I checked the correct flag and now I have a mtl file and in the internal node of part shader (of the object) I can see one Default shader and one object part for each material, even with their correct names. Issue is.. obj is rendered in grey, not with its own material. If I go inside I find
object >>> parts shader >>> obj part >>> default shader but obj part and its default shader are not linked togheter. Maybe the problem is this, but I cannot fix it. in the default shader I can see the correct color, but it doesn't affect the object during rendering.
What am I doing wrong?
ps I think an image could help, but I don't know if I can post an image here since there is a "image sharing" section. let me know, many thanks as usual
Valentina
An image would indeed be helpful. And of course you can post an illustrative
image in this section, no problem.
ok, there it is
[attachimg=1]
with this situation, I have no material applied on my object.. (i see it grey while the material is red).
And connecting both manually doesn't work?
kinda sounds like the default lambert is the surface that is showing. But the easiest thing to do is to post the TGD and related files here.
Can you just make a TGD and the object in the sense and post it? Can solve and explain then.
here is the file..
it is the same thing if the object has 2 materials or more: all floating and if I connect manually it breaks the connection itself.
Strange!
What I would try - just to be on the safe side - is to remove the / before the word red
in your object file and try again. You have to do that in your modeling software though.
Thanks I'll try that and let you know. I've read just on this forum a user's topic about an obj from rhinoceros (that I use) and he/she successfull imported all the materials. I'm pretty sure there is no "/" in my original file, but worths a try.
Valentina
Hey! I'm not a mothertongue so probably I didn't catch what you were suggesting. I checked in Rhinoceros and there were no /, but in terragen it seems that once removed the / from the items name it works!
thank you!! really :D
Valentina
Cool! :)
Slashes / are used as path indicators, like with file paths, so they should not be used in node names.
- Oshyan
yes, I didn't think about deleting slashes.. though, I didn't put the slashes, Terragen did. but it's a solution, thank you all.
Valentina