Forum: Marvelous Designer

Subject: Animation export/import between Cinema 4D and MD

vintorix opened this issue on Dec 05, 2017 ยท 9 posts

vintorix posted Thu, 07 December 2017 at 6:23 AM

SaschaK,

Yes, the material tags are one of the advantages over Alembic. Another is that you can split the mesh and the animation still works.

About the materials I did not knew that it was an issue otherwise I would have included them. The thing is, MDD follow the same rules as OBJ.

For that C4D shall respect the .mtl file (the companion file to OBJ) it must:

  1. Either reside in the same folder as the .c4d file, or
  2. Be in a tex subfolder to the .c4d file

Then use relative file paths and put all the material files in the same folder too. (In practice, Save project with Assets and put the OBJ and the MDD file in the tex folder)

If you do that the materials will be imported. (Tone down the specularity)