Import .obj File With File-textures

[mattiasa]

Hi,
I have an .obj file (10 MB) with an accompanying .mtl (for the materials) and several .jpg files for file textures. When I try to import this into maya with the standard (comes with maya) obj-importer this happens: I get many error-messages like these:
// Error: line 1: No object matches name: TEMPORARY_IMPORT_NAMESPACE_pslyon01:TEMPORARY_IMPORT_NAMESPACE_pslyon01:mat_1F.fileTextureName //
// Error: line 1: No object matches name: TEMPORARY_IMPORT_NAMESPACE_pslyon01:TEMPORARY_IMPORT_NAMESPACE_pslyon01:mat_1P2D.offset //

Ok, so I try to find out if my files have error or if there is something wrong with the maya .obj importer. To me it seems like there is something wrong with the obj importer. Because: I make a simple poly plane in maya. Then a lambert with color mapped to a .jpg file texture. Then I try to export this out of maya. Seems to work good, I get an .obj and a .mpl. Then I try to import these into maya again, with the standard plugin .. And it does not work. I do not get the TEMPORARY... errormessages mentioned above, but I get the plane without any file texture. It has a lambert with black color.

So, is the maya .obj importer no good? How do I import .obj files with file textures into Maya?

[joojaa]

Try editting the mat file with your text editor to match actual paths. Anyway easier probably just to manually parse the data.

[mattiasa]

Ok Ill try with absolute paths later today (actually I have completed the import into maya, but I needed to use okino nugraf / polytrans to get it done - so did not use the maya .obj importer).

With manually parsing the data - do you mean converting .obj geometry and then texturing it yourself in maya? That is not possible because my .obj file is 10 MB (the .mtl file is 3 MB) - it contains about 10 000 buildings with texturefiles - about 10 000 jpg-s. And I dont even know what jpg goes to what building .. (geometry and textures were made in another program by the customer, exported as .obj. I am to import it into maya to animate a camera run through the city).

[joojaa]

The mat ifle is simply a list of shaders and what channels texture what. Theese are simple to re create no matter HOW big your model is. They dont relate to each other.

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10 000 jpg-

Well yes that would be a problem, even when you do get them read in. Its easy to script tough.

Lets assume they are all 512*512 textures then you would be needing 7.8 gigabytes of memory.