I have a lot of .obj's with .mtl the textures are made in Gimp 2.6 and saved as tiff files no compression. All the models load with the textures into Daz Studio 2.3.3.89 as well as into Vue 6 Poser 7 and Bryce 6 but they do not load into Carrara 6.2.1 if I try to import the texture map into Carrara using the tiff selection the files are greyed out. Why won't Carrara load the files?
 

Hard to know without the file... I dont use Gimp here too.

If you can load the obj with the tiff files without problem with Daz Studio, why not export your file with Daz Studio. Normaly, it will fix it.

Michel

Quote - If you can load the obj with the tiff files without problem with Daz Studio, why not export your file with Daz Studio. Normaly, it will fix it.

Michel

That works but I still wonder why Carrara won't load .tiff's. Thanks

can you post a simple test with files somewhere to look at?

Carrara can load tiffs. Maybe an index issue. There was an index change made to the tiff format not long ago. Maybe more bits than it can handle also. It can load most tiffs fine tho. If u try and load a C tiff in gimp u will get an error also.

The .tiff's I'm having trouble with were created in Gimp. And as I said only trouble in Carrara 6.

Try to export your tiff files to jpg. If the files are all black, it's a gimp bug.

Michel

Also to see if its a Carrara and the Tiff format version that GIMP uses, try this.  Get irfanview (one of the best little image viewers/resizers etc and its free, at http://www.irfanview.com/

Open the file and save as/export to .tif again, also save out to another lossless format say PNG or BMP, then open that file and re-save as TIFF and try each one, to see if it has the same issue.  if it doesn't then it narrows down what is happening.  I would still like to try it, if you can put up a sample somewhere.

Quote - Also to see if its a Carrara and the Tiff format version that GIMP uses, try this.  Get irfanview (one of the best little image viewers/resizers etc and its free, at http://www.irfanview.com/

Open the file and save as/export to .tif again, also save out to another lossless format say PNG or BMP, then open that file and re-save as TIFF and try each one, to see if it has the same issue.  if it doesn't then it narrows down what is happening.  I would still like to try it, if you can put up a sample somewhere.

I'm on a Mac OS10.4 but I've tried your suggestion with other similar software but for Mac I will try to get a sample on. at work now.

Reply from Daz on the problem:

Response (Kraig Hausmann) - 12/15/2008 10:32 AM   
Hi Robert,

Carrara 6 doesn't support .mtl files.  You can apply a standard bitmap or .jpg onto the .obj in the Texture Room.  Let us know if you have any questions.

I do know that the tiff C outputs gimp cannot read. The reason is an index difference. Assumably from the tiff version change. C does support mtl files, last I checked. This is also easily correctable by using a text editor to change the texture path.The problem is what gets put in the obj/mtl file. You can output an obj from hex and C can read it. It usually ends up being a relative instead of absolute path, this causes issues. The other option is to put the textures, obj and mtl all in the same folder.