How to import OBJ files into Cinema 4D WITH MATERIALS!! C4D tutorial

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  • čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
  • Skip to 0:40 if my joke isn't funny lmao (that's where the tutorial starts)
    There aren't really any tutorials on how to import obj files into Cinema 4d (C4D) that include this tip. So if you are struggling to import OBJ's with their materials and textures, then I can help you. If this video helps you out go ahead and subscribe. I will be making lots of tutorials not just for C4D but also for After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Photoshop. If this helped you let me know in the comments, or if you have any other problems I'd be happy to help.
    If you are curious to see some of my music video works here is the link to my main channel: / @alleyes9308

Komentáře • 120

  • @jonjackson8811
    @jonjackson8811 Před 3 lety +34

    There is some tutorial in your random bs.

    • @alleyestutorials9822
      @alleyestutorials9822  Před 3 lety +9

      that is a good underhanded compliment t i like this one

    • @ShrineStudios
      @ShrineStudios Před 2 lety

      @@alleyestutorials9822 lowkey helpful af 2:26 nearly shit my pants bc thats what happened to me

  • @justsuperjl
    @justsuperjl Před 4 lety +17

    I was just searching for this topic last week, people went as far as installing some script. Crazy how no one talked about your solution!

  • @papaperman1348
    @papaperman1348 Před 4 lety +16

    This man should be saved at all cost

  • @jordanwright5795
    @jordanwright5795 Před 3 lety +32

    There’s absolutely no reason to do this manually with each material. That’s what the “texture manager” is for in C4D. When in the material view, click texture, then open texture manager, select all the missing textures, and then click edit, relink textures. Then just select the folder where you saved all the textures to re-link them in a single pass.
    Depending on your version of C4D later versions call this the project asset inspector and it’s found in one of the top level menus. I can’t remember the menu off the top of my head at the moment though.
    As a third alternative if your dead set on doing it the tedious manual way shown in this video you can drag and drop textures from a folder to the path field in the texture editor without having to type or copy/paste the directory.

    • @brunobordini7696
      @brunobordini7696 Před 2 lety +1

      Shhhhhhhhh! Let them relink textures one by one! Let them think C4D is problematic! Hahahahahha

    • @Oss.2A
      @Oss.2A Před 2 lety

      oh man I love U u saved a lot of my time & my sleep :D..... i got some time until i understood how he do it then bam! took them all in

    • @rgx0015
      @rgx0015 Před 2 lety

      i've done this and even made a big folder for all the textures to go in and its still not working

    • @jordanwright5795
      @jordanwright5795 Před 2 lety

      @@rgx0015 save a “tex” folder wherever your c4d file is located, move your textures to that folder. Next in the project asset inspector just paste the full directory of the tex folder in front of each of the the file names of your textures that have a red X. If the file directory is correct after pasting the X will turn into a green check mark. You should be golden. I use this technique all the time to texture imports that sometime have hundreds of textures…

    • @rgx0015
      @rgx0015 Před 2 lety

      @@jordanwright5795 yo man thats what i've been trying to , the directory locator isn't working , it still thinks the stuff is in the daz3d file

  • @haronbahamuthat407
    @haronbahamuthat407 Před 3 lety +5

    is this your only tutorial? excellent, subbed, begging for more!

  • @rimuvalez
    @rimuvalez Před 4 lety +13

    There is no location when i want to find the textures.what should i do?

    • @solo_2003
      @solo_2003 Před 3 lety +3

      same

    • @alleyestutorials9822
      @alleyestutorials9822  Před 3 lety

      wait so they have no name? or you just don't know where the textures are, if you downloaded the model from like turbo squid or something it should come in a zip folder with a folder titled "tex" or "textures" the textures will be there, if it doesn't have that folder basically you just got a crappy model that they didn't upload the textures for.

    • @runichomeland8120
      @runichomeland8120 Před 2 lety

      @@alleyestutorials9822 Nah I think he means theres an obj file and a mtl file with the textures. But the mtl file doesnt have all the texures laid out as jpegs in documents. At least thats whats happened with mine

  • @MirrorPeakFM
    @MirrorPeakFM Před 2 lety +2

    Best narration on a tutorial I've ever heard lol. You're right, other tutorials on this subject don't exist or they make it sound so simple and like everything just works and it doesnt so thank you!

  • @haregijoe
    @haregijoe Před 4 lety +4

    Legend, thanks mate. I came from that guys video to this. Now I just have to work out how to animate my drone and put it in AE!

  • @NyoraiFidesTV
    @NyoraiFidesTV Před 4 lety +2

    Genius!! Totally agree the other tutorial, which i checked first as it was from cinersity, was a disaster

  • @hammockmonk
    @hammockmonk Před 2 lety +2

    As someone new to Blender, I have to say it’s a little crazy that it has to be this hard to import the materials. At most, you should have to do it just for one, then it should find all the others in the same folder. Sheesh!

  • @miladfoolad3229
    @miladfoolad3229 Před 4 lety +6

    mate I was looking for this shit all this morning tnx mate

  • @AExplained
    @AExplained Před rokem

    my man,...youre right, nobody addressed this issue and i was losing my mind but glad to see you made a video about it. havent quite got it to work for me yet but def a step in the right direction at the very least

  • @cambrothersraw
    @cambrothersraw Před 3 lety +2

    Dude, love you. It's so simple, but really no one explains about it. Only thing is that it is a lot of work to reconnect all the textures if the model has a lot of them (like my one with over 50 textures to reconnect) haha

    • @alleyestutorials9822
      @alleyestutorials9822  Před 3 lety

      yeah thats rough

    • @alleyestutorials9822
      @alleyestutorials9822  Před 3 lety

      this should help czcams.com/video/Funajp9uyCA/video.html

    • @walesam9129
      @walesam9129 Před 3 lety +2

      @@alleyestutorials9822 Thanks. so i watched that tutorial but my assets manager isn't even showing any textures at all

    • @alleyestutorials9822
      @alleyestutorials9822  Před 3 lety

      @@walesam9129 now that is weird, are you sure the model came with textures?

  • @iforgot87872
    @iforgot87872 Před rokem +1

    So you ranted a bit but your sass made it kind of entertaining lol

  • @charltoncreary9170
    @charltoncreary9170 Před 4 lety +6

    Thanks for this, however I get it show up, but when render preview it shows up as grey, with out textures

  • @iamronaldo7764
    @iamronaldo7764 Před 4 lety +2

    Good video i subbed

  • @sergeyafanasiev3896
    @sergeyafanasiev3896 Před 4 lety +3

    What you will do if you have 500 materials? Manufl fix it?

  • @blkmoon_exe
    @blkmoon_exe Před 4 lety +1

    lmao i fwu bro good looks

  • @aes0p895
    @aes0p895 Před 3 lety +1

    i didn't even realize the AE could import obj files whaaaaaaat?!?!!?

  • @coldenv_IG
    @coldenv_IG Před 3 lety +4

    bro you're the fucking shit :'D i loved the way you put them in bad light. i'm thinking exactly the same way like you do. thanks for sharing this fun video. regards

  • @menakhovsky
    @menakhovsky Před 2 lety

    Thanks. If there were no anime wallpapers, I wouldn't watch this

  • @louibyron
    @louibyron Před 3 lety +2

    when I import a model in it opens up a new project, is there a way so it imports into the project that I was using?

  • @kjstudios5678
    @kjstudios5678 Před 7 měsíci

    This helped me a lot, thanks buddy!!!

  • @runichomeland8120
    @runichomeland8120 Před 2 lety +1

    For me I can't open the mtl file so I can't select the textures to replace. How can I open it and see all the textures in documents? Using mac btw

  • @Luke-pn3dr
    @Luke-pn3dr Před 3 lety +4

    Hey, when I connect the textures to my model, they show up propertly. However the model, when rendered is still a semitranslucent ghost (without the textures that show up in my perspective view). Any ideas what's happening here?

    • @Luke-pn3dr
      @Luke-pn3dr Před 3 lety +1

      Cancel that! - it was just the "transparency" turned on everywhere for some reason.

    • @sommie
      @sommie Před 3 lety

      u save my Life 🤠🤠✌️

    • @henochfung1137
      @henochfung1137 Před 2 lety

      @@Luke-pn3dr I was literally looking for this LOL ,Thanks.

    • @ernstpasterkamp8916
      @ernstpasterkamp8916 Před 2 lety

      just beginning here, but were can i find that way to change the transparency? have the same problem

  • @designjorge
    @designjorge Před rokem

    if you dont have the material files and is using glb format, try to open the glb file in microsoft 3d builder and export it as obj.. it will separate all the materials.

  • @itsmezozo2483
    @itsmezozo2483 Před 3 lety +2

    THANK YOU HOLY CRAP

  • @christianmatts_bk
    @christianmatts_bk Před rokem

    thank you for the video. having obj materials all convert to 1 material and doesnt have old link to file name.

  • @knowledgecodepro5941
    @knowledgecodepro5941 Před rokem

    Thanks a lot Bro

  • @BenWeeks
    @BenWeeks Před 3 lety +1

    The problem I'm having is importing the obj into an existing scene. What ends up happening is that the obj opens but closes the previous scene where my lights are setup.

  • @sergio_motion
    @sergio_motion Před 2 lety

    Thanx, but more quicker way to fix all broken paths is - Window/ Project Asset inspector, select all missing and Relink, just select "Textures" folder

  • @dyb2036
    @dyb2036 Před 2 lety

    Thanks dude

  • @henochfung1137
    @henochfung1137 Před 2 lety

    That is what I am looking for !!

  • @JoshuaGigin
    @JoshuaGigin Před 2 lety

    thank you sooo much

  • @JustIn-case
    @JustIn-case Před 3 lety

    yoo this was maddd helpful thank you!!!!!

  • @Kanhzy
    @Kanhzy Před 3 lety +1

    How do you import multiple obj files

  • @antMight
    @antMight Před 28 dny

    Thank for tut

  • @MegaBraiann
    @MegaBraiann Před 9 měsíci

    I cant follow the tutorial because some options doesnt appears like you, i have C4 2023.

  • @anothernp
    @anothernp Před 2 lety

    thanks worked

  • @Iris-qh2pl
    @Iris-qh2pl Před 2 lety

    THANK YOU

  • @hasancaskurlu906
    @hasancaskurlu906 Před 3 lety +1

    best video start :D :D

  • @claytonanderson6399
    @claytonanderson6399 Před rokem

    Love the commentary!

  • @knitpicky
    @knitpicky Před 4 lety +2

    I keep having this issue where when I import obj files, everything becomes one solid object with a single material and with (from my knowledge) no way to separate parts unless I do it by hand. help?

    • @alleyestutorials9822
      @alleyestutorials9822  Před 4 lety +3

      yep I can help you with that when you click merge project or open an obj, a menu comes up, on that menu, there is on the option titled 'splitting' go to its drop down menu, you should see 5 options, it can depend on the file which one is going to work best for you and it depends on why you are wanting them split up. usually splitting by material is your best bet, if that doesn't split it the way you want to try the others. and if none of them work then the model you have downloaded is a crappy model, which happens often, that's the big L of downloading free models. Hopefully that helps! Did I earn a subscribe? (:

  • @sagepaddockreid7804
    @sagepaddockreid7804 Před 4 lety +1

    hopefully this helps people!

  • @muhammedpurathayil7041
    @muhammedpurathayil7041 Před 3 lety +1

    thanks mahnnn

  • @zoe-ts1vp
    @zoe-ts1vp Před 3 lety

    when i added it to its own project it looked good and worked but when i added it to an existing scene (ctrl+shift+o) it doesnt show up even when i put in the material :( pls help i am a beginner

  • @BrokemanVFX
    @BrokemanVFX Před 10 měsíci

    hell yeah boi boy

  • @ishthealias
    @ishthealias Před 3 lety +1

    10k next video u gotta show us your face

  • @erydayseaneleven1207
    @erydayseaneleven1207 Před rokem

    Same thing happened to me in blender

  • @jalovfx
    @jalovfx Před rokem

    Can someone help me and tell me how to fix my obj it looks transparent wit pixels 😭😭😭

  • @honeybunny3768
    @honeybunny3768 Před 2 lety

    I have a problem my model won't show in the app at all it just the material 😭😭😭what should I do ??

  • @jirkadolezal8127
    @jirkadolezal8127 Před 3 lety +1

    👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @clashwithitclashers9057

    So helpful

  • @DerickAlexsander.Official

    mine dosen't work in c4d r19

  • @jhofred415
    @jhofred415 Před 3 lety

    Isn't there a way that it could load all material and texture form a folder automatically cause i have a lot of them with no names

  • @danknyc8501
    @danknyc8501 Před 3 lety +2

    Upload more tutorials like this, basic shitttt

  • @kayamandicreative2583
    @kayamandicreative2583 Před 3 lety

    thank you

  • @wilhelmhagberg4897
    @wilhelmhagberg4897 Před 2 lety

    Hey followed your steps, but all the materials appear black. Is this a problem with my file or is there a fix for this?

  • @rishianand8102
    @rishianand8102 Před 4 lety +1

    Where's the pop smoke?

  • @ryan.charles
    @ryan.charles Před 3 lety

    Perfect!

  • @manzibarikage1441
    @manzibarikage1441 Před 9 měsíci

    it says unknown file someone please help

  • @CrumbleMemes
    @CrumbleMemes Před 3 lety

    Any tips on where to get octane? 😏😏

  • @SilvisFX
    @SilvisFX Před měsícem

    So basicly you took 4min straight to tell the answer

  • @devlitn6344
    @devlitn6344 Před 2 lety

    🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

  • @emotionalmodels8463
    @emotionalmodels8463 Před 3 lety

    may we see it exported?

  • @thegurunextdoor2083
    @thegurunextdoor2083 Před 3 lety +1

    I just watched the tut that you speak of...it is a horrible tut..

  • @SupremeCoreyTvsupreme
    @SupremeCoreyTvsupreme Před 3 lety

    where do you get your models ?

  • @namanbisht975
    @namanbisht975 Před 4 lety

    Do you really planned to do this wallpaper thing in your new video ?

  • @MegaSina777
    @MegaSina777 Před 2 lety

    It didn't solve the problem!

  • @unityinfusionmedia9102

    Mate this can be done through the asset manager takes a few seconds.... they can be relink within seconds. Hope this helps czcams.com/video/Funajp9uyCA/video.html

  • @namanbisht975
    @namanbisht975 Před 4 lety

    And never critize others on your video you can do that in their comments

  • @ShadowWalker8
    @ShadowWalker8 Před 2 lety

    U take all day.get to the damn point.

  • @WalrusesAreTheOne
    @WalrusesAreTheOne Před rokem

    If they had baked the image into their material file, should that fix it? Or will you still need to load the image?

  • @JHobartMusic72
    @JHobartMusic72 Před rokem

    Well I just realized I’m too much of a fucking moron to just try to learn this shit from scratch. I’m a musician/composer, was wanting to make my own animations with music….i don’t even know what to
    Start with.
    It’s not going to be too exciting if I’m animating stick figures
    Shit

  • @NEWARTSTUDiOS
    @NEWARTSTUDiOS Před 10 měsíci

    Video actually starts 1:25, those blah blah blah in the beginning of every tutorial is super annoying, just stick to the point.

  • @kunalj40
    @kunalj40 Před 3 lety

    thanks man