manyfold3d
Textured meshes
Hi there,
Is there any plan to add support for textured meshes to the program?
Thanks Matt
Not yet, as the focus has been on models for print, which generally don't have texture, but there's no reason why we couldn't support object materials and meshes if users wanted it!
Ok great. Well you can put me down for one user that would want it haha. My use case it that I want to showcase textured meshes of buildings that I have created through LiDaR and Photogrammetry. I've uploaded a non textured version and it works great, it'd just be amazing if I could add texture.
Sounds fantastic! I see you're using STL, which I didn't realise even supported textures. Any chance you can upload an example zip of a model here so I can see how it works and use it to test?
Sure thing. The above is just an STL but my textured files are OBJ with an attached MTL. Unfortunately my model isn't particularly decimated and my smallest model available to me at the moment is 3.3Gb with textures. If I get access to the software again (awaiting license) I'll produce a more web friendly file size
Would be really nice for .blend files as well, for sharing game and render movie models.
This works now for any renderable formats that include materials, including the OBJ/MTL combination. Full list of current renderable formats is at https://manyfold.app/manual/supported_formats.html.
@Floppy How exactly do you upload a model that contains multiple files, such as the obj,mtl,and texture jpgs?
@Floppy How exactly do you upload a model that contains multiple files, such as the obj,mtl,and texture jpgs?
I'm going to improve the UX for that very soon, but the best approach for now is to zip it up, and then upload the zip. If all the paths in the various files that point to each other are relative, it should work...
@Floppy thanks for reply, but it didn't work. For example below. When I use the upload content with the zip, the content just ends up showing the 5 jpgs, and not even the obj. If I just put the zip in the /models directory and hit scan, nothing shows up.
2025-10-07_20.45.52-default-OSC_68e3adec.zip
@Floppy thanks for reply, but it didn't work. For example below. When I use the upload content with the zip, the content just ends up showing the 5 jpgs, and not even the obj. If I just put the zip in the /models directory and hit scan, nothing shows up.
OK, thanks, I'll check it here.