HI everyone. I am trying to build a project that allows the user to build their own 3d models and textures to add to the game. I have got a basic skeleton script for this but I am having trouble deciding on a suitable format for the meshes. The wavefront .obj format seems to have what I want ie. plaintext 3d object format but there are further issues. I am currently using maya and when I export a shape using .obj in maya I get two files: a .obj file that simply has the name of the other file in it and nothing else, and an mtl file that always reads
newmtl initialShadingGroup
illum 4
Kd 0.50 0.50 0.50
Ka 0.00 0.00 0.00
Tf 1.00 1.00 1.00
Ni 1.00
no matter what shape I export. Maya also fails to reimport these files but I gather from other sources that maya just doesn’t import most file types.
My questions are as follows:
Is wavefront obj the best file format for my purposes?
Is there a way to get maya to export these properly or should I use a different modelling program.
