I still only use a very (very) limited subset of Blender's capabilties, mainly to produce simple models for Poser/DAZ Studio.

If I have several objects in Blender that make up my model, then when I export to an OBJ I have several options, including "Objects as OBJ objects" / "Objects as OBJ groups".

But if I import an OBJ I don't seem to have any options at all. Blender seems to automatically split OBJ groups into Blender objects.

• Is there an obvious reason (that I'm missing) for there being no OBJ import options in Blender?

• Or perhaps there are options and I'm just not looking in the right place?

Select Import > OBJ. In the dialogue box, to the lower left of the screen are your OBJ import options. They are not as robust as the export options perhaps.

Here's a screencap. Sorry, I needed to edit the original one.

Thanks - what an idiot I am! I was looking for a pop-up dialog after selecting the OBJ file, like I used to see in 2.49b (I think?). And I did look in the bottom left, but only after I'd imported the OBJ (after all when you do Add > Mesh the mesh options are still there) - but of course you can't select import options after importing, you have to do that beforehand! D'oh! Facepalm!

Hmmm... if I UNcheck both "Split by object" and "Split by group" I'd expect the groups from the OBJ to appear in Blender as vertex groups, but it seems that all sense of those groups is lost. Or am I missing something again ?

Ah! Just spotted "Keep Vertex Order" and the "Poly Groups" checkbox !

Here's a link to my tutorial in the freestuff section. I hope you'll find it helpful.

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/blender-to-poser-tutorial/76353

Bob

Thanks Bob - I've just had a quick skim through it, and there's a lot that I already knew... but also a lot I didn't (or thought I did, but was wrong ;o) And it looks like an entertaining read too, so some time over the next few days... :)