placement of OBJ

[Scottiefeng]

I believe this is quite important.

I export a house scene from Archicad to standalone. Then try to merge a bed OBJ. However, it is really not easy to put it into exact location I want it to be by using placement. Is there any better way doing this?

I am not using Proxy in Archicad Plugin one this one because it does not always sit on the position where you place the proxy object.

Hi Paul, any idea? Happy Australia day.

Thanks guys

[face_off]

Hi Scottie. It will be substantially easier to place the proxy in the ArchiCAD plugin. Get it close to the position you need - then export to OCS an you can tweak the position in Octane Standalone. In theory, you should be able to get the proxy exactly placed in the ArchiCAD plugin - although if the desired position is elevated from the floor - that might be a challenge.

Paul

[Scottiefeng]

Thanks paul. I did not use proxy because it does not load mtl but the standalone version does. Is there something i didi not set up right here? Thanks

[face_off]

Scottie - the MTL file will also be loaded in OctaneRender for ArchiCAD (when the OBJ is used as a proxy).

Paul

[Scottiefeng]

Scottie - the MTL file will also be loaded in OctaneRender for ArchiCAD (when the OBJ is used as a proxy).

Paul

Thanks Paul, don't know why it is not in my case. But the standalone works well after asking me for texture path (location

Or should I put everything including the mapping in one folder?

[rappet]

Hi Scottie,
The mtl file must be in the smae folder as the obj.
When opening the mtl in text editor (i.e. Notepad) you can see if the tetxure images should be in a subfolder or not.
Greetz,

[Scottiefeng]

Hi Scottie,
The mtl file must be in the smae folder as the obj.
When opening the mtl in text editor (i.e. Notepad) you can see if the tetxure images should be in a subfolder or not.
Greetz,

Yup. Solved the problem. Thanks!

[Scottiefeng]

Hi guys,

Some of the scripts after my edition to give absolute path as below, but Archicad plugin just didnot load them up? can hlp? Thanks

newmtl AM149_set21_wisker_03
Ns 83.3333
Ni 1.6000
d 1.0000
Tr 0.0000
Tf 1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
illum 2
Ka 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
Kd 0.5000 0.5000 0.5000
Ks 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
Ke 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
map_Kd C:\Users\Scottie\Desktop\octane material\jimmy trail\cabinet in kitchen\AM149_set21_wisker_3_01.jpg

newmtl AM149_set21_wicker_2
Ns 83.3333
Ni 1.6000
d 1.0000
Tr 0.0000
Tf 1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
illum 2
Ka 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
Kd 0.5000 0.5000 0.5000
Ks 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
Ke 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
map_Kd C:\Users\Scottie\Desktop\octane material\jimmy trail\cabinet in kitchen\AM149_set21_wisker_01_dif.jpg
map_Ks C:\Users\Scottie\Desktop\octane material\jimmy trail\cabinet in kitchen\AM149_set21_wisker_02_refl.jpg

newmtl AM149_set21_wicker_1
Ns 83.3333
Ni 1.6000
d 1.0000
Tr 0.0000
Tf 1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
illum 2
Ka 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
Kd 0.5000 0.5000 0.5000
Ks 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
Ke 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
map_Kd C:\Users\Scottie\Desktop\octane material\jimmy trail\cabinet in kitchen\AM149_set21_wisker_dif.jpg
map_Ks C:\Users\Scottie\Desktop\octane material\jimmy trail\cabinet in kitchen\AM149_set21_wisker_refl.jpg
map_bump C:\Users\Scottie\Desktop\octane material\jimmy trail\cabinet in kitchen\AM149_set21_wisker_norm.jpg
bump C:\Users\Scottie\Desktop\octane material\jimmy trail\cabinet in kitchen\AM149_set21_wisker_norm.jpg

newmtl AM149_set21_wisker_02
Ns 83.3333
Ni 1.6000
d 1.0000
Tr 0.0000
Tf 1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
illum 2
Ka 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
Kd 0.5000 0.5000 0.5000
Ks 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
Ke 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
map_Kd C:\Users\Scottie\Desktop\octane material\jimmy trail\cabinet in kitchen\AM149_set21_wisker_3.jpg

newmtl AM149_set21_wicker_3
Ns 83.3333
Ni 1.6000
d 1.0000
Tr 0.0000
Tf 1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
illum 2
Ka 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
Kd 0.5000 0.5000 0.5000
Ks 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
Ke 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
map_Kd C:\Users\Scottie\Desktop\octane material\jimmy trail\cabinet in kitchen\AM149_set21_wisker_02_dif.jpg
map_Ks C:\Users\Scottie\Desktop\octane material\jimmy trail\cabinet in kitchen\AM149_set21_wisker_02_refl.jpg
map_bump C:\Users\Scottie\Desktop\octane material\jimmy trail\cabinet in kitchen\AM149_set21_wisker_02_refl.jpg
bump C:\Users\Scottie\Desktop\octane material\jimmy trail\cabinet in kitchen\AM149_set21_wisker_02_refl.jpg

[rappet]

Should you not better use relative paths.. Relative to where obj is.
Whatbis your reason for absolute path?

[face_off]

Scottie - they should work. Do the texturemaps get loaded if you load the OBJ into Octane Standalone? Does removing the "C:" path of the absolute filename help? If not - can you send me the OBJ, MTL and texturemap file pls?

Paul