Hey all.

I looked on the site, but I may have missed it. I was wondering if you could suggest any programs that would let me load Houdini models into it to paint textures onto them, then resave to a houdini filetype?

Assuming that you're dealing with polygon models, just use .obj geometry files.

How do I get the .obj file?

right-click on model in viewer,
then–>save geometry…
name it: whatever.obj
and that's it
:wink:

Thanks people Worked great.

One more question, Deep Paint gave me two files.

The .obj and a .mtl file.

How do I use the .mtl file in Houdini? I'm guessing it's a material file, but I have no idea how to use materials. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance :wink:

well, I think it is loaded automaticaly with obj, when there is a material…

Thanks. I'll try again and see how it goes

.mtl files are external properties for .obj files (see http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~burkardt/data/mtl/mtl.html [csit.fsu.edu] ) that mostly specify colour. Houdini actually doesn't read/write the .mtl files. In practice, the .mtl files don't really matter anyhow since real shaders are typically much more complicated.

To load your .obj file, first make sure that it's extension is lowercase. Then just put it as the filename in a File SOP.