I have tried over and over to load wavefront .obj files. The geometry loads fine, but there are never any materials. Other (including cheepo) 3d programs load the same .obj file just fine, including materials. What am I doing wrong. I am using the file menu for imorting geometry.

Thanks

You'll need to post an example file so we can help you.

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primeuser
I have tried over and over to load wavefront .obj files. The geometry loads fine, but there are never any materials. Other (including cheepo) 3d programs load the same .obj file just fine, including materials. What am I doing wrong. I am using the file menu for imorting geometry.
Thanks

I don't think Houdini supports OBJ materials, does it? If this is a problem for you, maybe you can try fbx import, much more advanced materials are supported by that standard anyway. Mtl holds just a few basic settings.

sy.

primeuser
I have tried over and over to load wavefront .obj files. The geometry loads fine, but there are never any materials. Other (including cheepo) 3d programs load the same .obj file just fine, including materials. What am I doing wrong. I am using the file menu for imorting geometry.

Thanks

Are these Maya Obj files?

If Obj files hasn't changed since Wavefront TAV,
there should be some “.mtl” files somewhere.. The materials
are called by name in the OBJ files and partitions on the
surface groups.

I've been out of it for a long time, but this might help..

Bumping this aged thread for future generations...

Thanks to SideFX Labs, there's a Labs OBJ Importer [www.sidefx.com] which loads MTL file also.