[WIP] PIFT

Originally Posted by Targor Avelany

sorry, privateer, I guess I still have problems expressing my thought sometimes
What I meant was not the reason of why we doing it, but how

Ah, Yes Mate.


Just copy paste what I posted to a new file safe from original files and rename it.
Create a new txt file, paste the info and save. Rename to 'whatever.mtl' and use it for Meshlab.
So if your original mtl file is Balloon.mtl? Name this one the same.
Then you only need to rename the textures in it to fit your textures.
Sorter will do all that later on.

[gap]

Originally Posted by privateer

Ah, Yes Mate.


Just copy paste what I posted to a new file safe from original files and rename it.
Create a new txt file, paste the info and save. Rename to 'whatever.mtl' and use it for Meshlab.
So if your original mtl file is Balloon.mtl? Name this one the same.

I also guess that we should have as many newmtl statements as the different materials used on our models

@ Targor:

if you want to understand what each row is meant for, you might be interested in the following link:

http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/mtl/

the same for obj file format:

http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/obj/

Originally Posted by gap

I also guess that we should have as many newmtl statements as the different materials used on our models

Right.
It's a limitation of Meshlab we're just working around for now.
One thing nice about Meshlab? It can be command line called.
So I can program to change the mtl, send all the files to Meshlab, have it do it's thing and export, then do the sort with you doing nothing aside from clicking cancel when the window pops back up.

Once you 'filter' do a 'save as' and select wavefront obj.
Your export options need to look like this.
Notice 'color' selected for face?