Materials Not Loading

cliftonweathersjr

Whenever I try to import an obj, the materials never load. I try to manually link them but they never turn out right. Is there a certain setting I need to use so that the model is imported correctly.

Luftsturmregiment40

cliftonweathersjr said:

Whenever I try to import an obj, the materials never load. I try to manually link them but they never turn out right. Is there a certain setting I need to use so that the model is imported correctly.

from DAZ to C4D or from C4D to DAZ?

one reason that it fails could be that the per-polygon selection tags are not correctly exported or applied with default white material (this happens with "some" 3d apps that interpret countless materials with the same naming convention like in C4D as one material and apply a default material specific to the app you import the model in to.

say model structure looks like this in Cinema 4D the materials all have the same name and in C4D this is perfectly acceptable even if all polygon selection tags have the same name (sort of) other programs treat this as one material and there the problems start

 

have a look what it says in the material selection tag list in DAZ AND C4D - there could be the answer but without screenshot or scene file it's hard to tell from a distance

either way in Cinema 4D it should look something like this

and in DAZ it should then look like this

I include for you a test cube in C4D format and the same cube as OBJ for you to test the import into DAZ and C4D as well

when you import into C4D the selection tags will get named numerically for a simple reason: you could have already a selection tag named "blue" in your scene that will cause some issues so MAXON made it that way and there is nothing you can do to change that other than manually, but at the same time in other apps it will read the selection tags as made in C4D for better or worst. And there is definitly space for improvement for the developers of both programs.