{"id":7211,"date":"2017-06-14T06:02:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T06:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=7211"},"modified":"2017-06-14T06:02:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T06:02:46","slug":"we-need-a-simpler-way-to-export-blender-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2017\/06\/14\/we-need-a-simpler-way-to-export-blender-content\/","title":{"rendered":"We need a simpler way to export Blender content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blender community has such great content under Creative Commons, on sites such as BlendSwap. But Blender is so often a nightmare to export content from, for people who care nothing about their precious Cycles renderer and who loathe wrestling with Blender&#8217;s horrible User Interface.  I must have tried at least a hundred such exports from Creative Commons .BLEND files in my time.  But roughly 50% of the time you just have to give up, as there&#8217;s no way on earth that the mesh <em>and its loading textures<\/em> are coming out in a viable and easy manner.<\/p>\n<p>So the rest of us are still in need of that mythical simple &#8220;blender to .OBJ <em>with textures<\/em>&#8221; exporter.  It would export&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>* the mesh as <strong>.OBJ<\/strong>&#8230; automatically excluding lights, domes, grounds and similar scene clutter.<\/p>\n<p>* a <strong>proper .MTL file<\/strong>, with clear editable texture references in it (e.g.: <em>map_Ka mapfile.png<\/em>), rather than a jammed-together block of Cycles gibberish which only Blender understands.<\/p>\n<p>* all the <strong>embedded texture .JPG files<\/strong> if they exist, neatly and automatically output in the same folder to work with an aligned .MTL file, so that <em>they actually load up<\/em> in  any another 3D software.<\/p>\n<p>So just a really pure and simple exporter, an exporter which works even when the .BLEND file author has fiddled with all sorts of settings and switches which mess up such a simple export to .OBJ or .FBX.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this could be enabled by having BlendSwap enforce or retrospectively apply a simple word-tagging of the core mesh, and also any bitmap textures, inside Blender.  The export script would then look for these tags inside the .BLEND and hook onto them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blender community has such great content under Creative Commons, on sites such as BlendSwap. But Blender is so often a nightmare to export content from, for people who care nothing about their precious Cycles renderer and who loathe wrestling with Blender&#8217;s horrible User Interface. I must have tried at least a hundred such exports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-utilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}