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

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.
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[@jonjackson8811]

There is some tutorial in your random bs.

[@alleyestutorials9822]

that is a good underhanded compliment t i like this one

[@ShrineStudios]

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

[@justsuperjl]

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!

[@alleyestutorials9822]

yeah its super simple, glad i could help

[@papaperman1348]

This man should be saved at all cost

[@alleyestutorials9822]

My dream has always been to get this exact youtube comment lmao

[@papaperman1348]

@@alleyestutorials9822 Haha Congrats😂😂🤣

[@PhonicArchaeology]

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]

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!

[@jordanwright5795]

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]

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

[@Oss.2A]

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]

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

[@jordanwright5795]

@@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]

@@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

[@AExplained]

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

[@haronbahamuthat407]

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

[@alleyestutorials9822]

i will have more soon

[@alleyestutorials9822]

screen recording myself replying to this comment as I'm filming rn lmao

[@NyoraiFidesTV]

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

[@JustIn-case]

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

[@kjstudios5678]

This helped me a lot, thanks buddy!!!

[@rimuvale3798]

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

[@solo_2003]

same

[@alleyestutorials9822]

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]

@@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

[@miladfoolad3229]

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

[@alleyestutorials9822]

fs bro

[@iamronaldo7764]

Good video i subbed

[@alleyestutorials9822]

Thx

[@cambrothersraw]

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]

yeah thats rough

[@alleyestutorials9822]

this should help kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKbRkp2mbtqseaM

[@walesam9129]

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

[@alleyestutorials9822]

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

[@henochfung1137]

That is what I am looking for !!

[@claytonanderson6399]

Love the commentary!

[@hasancaskurlu906]

best video start :D :D

[@blkmoon_exe]

lmao i fwu bro good looks

[@alleyestutorials9822]

yup

[@blkmoon_exe]

All Eyes Tutorials trying to contact u bro u got a twitter or an ig?

[@alleyestutorials9822]

@@blkmoon_exe yeah the ig is all.eyess

[@itsmezozo2483]

THANK YOU HOLY CRAP

[@charltoncreary9170]

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

[@alleyestutorials9822]

what renderer are you using? octane, c4d, redshift maybe?

[@menakhovsky]

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

[@louibyron]

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?

[@knowledgecodepro5941]

Thanks a lot Bro

[@muhammedpurathayil7041]

thanks mahnnn

[@dyb2036]

Thanks dude

[@hammockmonk]

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!

[@clashwithitclashers9057]

So helpful

[@BenWeeks]

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.

[@ryan.charles]

Perfect!

[@JoshuaGigin]

thank you sooo much

[@zoe-ts1vp]

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

[@iforgot87872]

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

[@kunalj40]

thanks man

[@runichomeland8120]

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

[@sergeyafanasiev3896]

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

[@alleyestutorials9822]

yeah as of now that is the only solution, sorry bro that's rough

[@anothernp]

thanks worked

[@designjorge]

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.

[@Iris-qh2pl]

THANK YOU

[@Kanhzy]

How do you import multiple obj files

[@jhofred415]

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

[@coldenv_IG]

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

[@alleyestutorials9822]

thats exactly what i was hoping people would say lol

[@kayamandicreative2583]

thank you

[@aes0p895]

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

[@christianmatts_bk]

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

[@honeybunny3768]

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

[@wilhelmhagberg4897]

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

[@MegaBraiann]

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

[@BrokemanVFX]

hell yeah boi boy

[@sagepaddockreid7804]

hopefully this helps people!

[@emotionalmodels8463]

may we see it exported?

[@Luke-pn3dr]

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]

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

[@sommie]

u save my Life 🤠🤠✌️

[@henochfung1137]

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

[@ernstpasterkamp8916]

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

[@sergio_motion]

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

[@CrumbleMemes]

Any tips on where to get octane? 😏😏

[@alleyestutorials9822]

ill give you a hint "ARRRRR MATEYYY"

[@jalovfx]

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

[@DerickAlexsander.Official]

mine dosen't work in c4d r19

[@ishthealias]

10k next video u gotta show us your face

[@erydayseaneleven1207]

Same thing happened to me in blender

[@manzibarikage1441]

it says unknown file someone please help

[@SupremeCoreyTvsupreme]

where do you get your models ?

[@alleyestutorials9822]

turbo squid and cgtrader mostly

[@knitpicky]

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]

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? (:

[@jirkadolezal8127]

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[@devlitn6344]

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[@danknyc8501]

Upload more tutorials like this, basic shitttt

[@rishianand8102]

Where's the pop smoke?

[@alleyestutorials9822]

next video lmao

[@namanbisht975]

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

[@MegaSina777]

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 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKbRkp2mbtqseaM

[@alleyestutorials9822]

THIS MAN HAS YOUR KEYS

[@thegurunextdoor2083]

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

[@alleyestutorials9822]

yes very bad lmao

[@namanbisht975]

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

[@ShadowWalker8]

U take all day.get to the damn point.

[@WalrusesAreTheOne]

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

[@JohnHobart]

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]

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