[Paraview] Add texture to obj files

Martín Huarte E martin.huartee at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 16:10:45 EDT 2015


Dear Cory. Thanks for the tip. I've tried, but there seems to be a problem,
as after trying what you suggested, the grid does not show the texture
correctly... it looks like a solid, black, color. Meshlab has no such
problems... still trying to figure this out.

Thanks again.

My best, Martín

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Hi Martin,
>
> Sure, it's possible. Try this:
>
> - load you OBJ file. Click Apply.
> - in the Properties panel, scroll down until you see the Texture option.
> Click on the combo box to the right and pick "Load..." Load your JPG
> texture.
> - if you don't see the texture, change the color array to "Solid Color"
>
> Note that your OBJ file will need to have texture coordinates that get
> read into ParaView. I think someone added this capability relatively
> recently - let us know if you can't apply the procedure I outlined above.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Cory
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Martín Huarte E <martin.huartee at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Paraview enthusiasts: Good day. I’m trying to work an obj file along
>> with a jpg one, produced by a 3D scanner. I can load the obj file and plot
>> its mesh, etc., however, I cannot map the jpg texture (colors) into it.
>> i.e. want to take the jpg stuff and map it onto the mesh from the obj
>> file. Any suggestion on how to achieve this would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you.
>> My best, Martín
>>
>>
>> *Martín Huarte-Espinosa, Ph.D.*
>>
>> *Computational Physicist  -  Expert Numerical Modeler and Code Developer
>> - High Performance Computing Research Specialist*
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>> <http://linkedin.com/pub/martin-huarte-espinosa/59/6b7/13a>*
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