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Subject: I hear a lot about OBJ, what exactly is it?

afimisf opened this issue on Jul 12, 2002 · 4 posts
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afimisf ( ) posted Fri, 12 July 2002 at 4:40 AM · edited Mon, 03 February 2025 at 7:45 AM

I currently own Poser4 and I will soon be getting 3ds Max4 (or I might just be patient and wait for 5), and I was reading up on how the two are compatible with eachother but every time I seen both programs together OBJ is always mentioned in there. Im not sure if it is a software I need to purchase/download, or if it is just a file extension I create for a Poser figure before I import it into 3ds Max. And for I all I know I could be totally wrong. Anyways if anyone could help me out with this that would me much appreciated (s/p). Thank You afimisf >Justin< P.S Poser 5 looks amazing

Curio ( ) posted Fri, 12 July 2002 at 10:03 AM

The OBJ format originates with Alias Wavefront I think. My version of 3DSMAx doesn't support them, but it is ancient (2.5). Maybe the newer versions support obj, and if they don't, I'm sure you can get a conversion plug in.

lgrant ( ) posted Fri, 12 July 2002 at 11:15 AM

What you need to deal with OBJ files in 3DSMax is the Habware free OBJ plugins. You can get them here: http://www.habware.at/duck4.htm Look for the OBJ2MAX (Import) and MAX2OBJ (Export) plugins. Here's a tutorial on working with Poser OBJ files in 3DSMax. I just stumbled into it when I was looking for the Habware site. It looks pretty good. http://www.royriggs.com/started.html Enjoy... Lynn Grant Castle Development Group

bushi ( ) posted Fri, 12 July 2002 at 10:33 PM

Good pointer Lynn! I've used the Habware plug-ins on an old version of Max and they work well. One thing to keep in mind when you start porting .obj files between Max and Poser is that the scaling is vastly different.

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