Discovered too late for inclusion in the forthcoming isometric issue of Digital Art Live magazine, “How To Convert OBJ to VOX color” with a new summer 2022 freeware .OBJ to voxels ‘voxeliser’ software…
“Convert your .OBJ and .MTL to the native .VOX format, including color and textures”
…and also automatically make the object look like it was built with those funky voxel cubes. Warning: the software is new and still at the level of command line input.
Note however that Qubicle 3.x can do this same process already, and with a very nice GUI too, albeit for $25. You do have to start with a small model though. It’s not going to cope well if you try to feed it Stonemason’s Urban Future scene or a Genesis figure, from DAZ / Poser.
Quickstart in Qubicle:
1. Export from Poser / DAZ / Blender a viable .OBJ file, with a viable .MTL and loading materials (easier said than done). Poly-reduce if needed.
2. Top menu | Voxelize | “Load Mesh” | Load .OBJ.
3. Top menu | Voxelize | “Scale Mesh” | Type in a scale factor, “Preview” and see what it looks like after that.
4. Looking good? Top menu | Voxelize | “Convert to Matrix”.
Everything in Qubicle has to be held with a ‘Matrix’, indicated by a yellow holding line around the model’s volume. If you want to colour or edit the model further, you first ‘enter’ the ‘Matrix’.