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Nazari5EB7
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January 23, 2022
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Materials not showing - just the average color of the material

  • January 23, 2022
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Hello,

 

When I add any kind of material to my model, it just gets the "average color" of the material and nothing else. In the preview I can only see outlines, when it renders it just has the color - essentially same result as I would just add some random color to the model without any other properties. I can not seem to find any solution for this problem. How could I fix it?

 

See screencap video:

https://www.loom.com/share/c0f0cb41350a46e08341efacfd00d52c

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Correct answer Ares Hovhannesyan

What program you use to create that model or what type of 3D file is it? Did you try to "Generate UV's" in Dimension after importing? 

Is it obj? If yes, you need to import relative maps into Dimension. IMHO in consist only from single mesh as you have only one layer in Scene panel.

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Ussnorway7605025
Ussnorway7605025
Legend
January 30, 2022

the model is very big Glb file scaled down to limit size [i assume] for sending over the net

Blender can open \ rendor it but there isn't any UV data to open because its really a Glb pretending to be Obj... if you upsale scale it by 10 and then 10 again you will see it as it should be rendored

Dimension will be able to open it at that point but the Obj will be at least 300 mb without textures or Uv data by that point so I would cut it into smaller models unless you have a ryzen desktop that can handle big 3d files

Ussnorway7605025
Ussnorway7605025
Legend
January 23, 2022

agreed the issue is that model and no its not a standard Obj but could be Stl... in any event Ares is correct that it needs to be fixed and if Dimension can't generate a UV map then your next best option is Blender

 

p.s, if you can't fix it yourself then share the model

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    Nazari5EB7Author
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    January 29, 2022

    I did manage to generate the UVs in blender but is there a way to import them to Blender? I do not mean the maps, I mean to UV, so I could add some Dimentions default texture to it and it would display correctly?

     

    BTW, I uploaded one of the models where the "Generate UVs" from Dimentions does not work:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/13R6e5xTspu0-QGs2MKgH1eZkVaHtV5Pk/view?usp=sharing

    Ares Hovhannesyan
    Community Expert
    Ares HovhannesyanCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    January 23, 2022

    What program you use to create that model or what type of 3D file is it? Did you try to "Generate UV's" in Dimension after importing? 

    Is it obj? If yes, you need to import relative maps into Dimension. IMHO in consist only from single mesh as you have only one layer in Scene panel.

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      Nazari5EB7Author
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      January 25, 2022

      It is an .Obj file but you were right. I tried the "Generate UVs" after importing and now its showing the materials correctly. About importing the correct maps into Dimentions - Do you have any materials to share? I tried to search for any kind of information on how to do this but came up empty handed..

      Ares Hovhannesyan
      Community Expert
      Ares HovhannesyanCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      January 25, 2022

      If you have obj file you can find all textures in .bmp format collected on one folder. After importing that obj file into any 3d app or in Dimension you can find your texture map loaded under it corresponding property as you can see in second screenshot. If it not there that means that path is not correct for that normal map (or image) and you need to manually load it by pressing on "+" button on the left for that property in Dimension.

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