I am looking for an app which can catalog .obj files. If there is an app which simply creates a .jpg with the same name, that would be cool to.
Tests to do that with ZScript have failed miserably as I fail to be able to hand a filename to IPress,Tool:IMPORT… Sighhhh. The ZBScripting language must have been forged in a dark place… M.C.'s skills are definitely SuperHuman!
Cheers
Lemo
Can you describe what you mean by catalog? I might be able to help you.
You need to use the [FileNameSetNext command, something like this:
[VarDef,filename,""]
[VarSet,filename,"fullpath\model.obj"]
[IButton,"Import OBJ",,
[IPress,Tool:PolyMesh3D]
[FileNameSetNext,filename]
[IPress,Tool:Import]
]
Of course, that doesn’t solve the difficulty of finding the file name & path in the first place…
Great Marcus!!!
That did it. I actually generated the script with a small VB script lol.
So I have not tackled that directory parsing problem in ZB.
Now it runs through a directory, loads every .obj file one after the other, plops it onto the screen, scales it to the max, saves a bmp, and continues.
In the end I have a directory with all the .obj’s and .bmp’s with a picture of them. When I go into the directory with the MS Thumbnails set, it neatly shows all the pictures and I am having zero difficulties finding a certain mesh again… Memory does not seem to be a problem as I import the new .obj while the old one is still selected. Speed is alright. Better then doing this manually… It’s really a shame that ZScript is so awkward. I never could really warm up with it…
Lemo
Hi Lemo,
I’m glad to help. It sounds like you’ve made yourself a nice little cataloguer. On ZScripts, they can be quirky. Perhaps you’ll have better luck writing plugins for Carrara! 
Not really… The compiler for the Mac version is not available any more since this month. SO… they have to move to a more modern platform there. Till then… I’ll stay low ;-). But XSI has an interface for an SDK and 3 different (Python, Java, VB) scripting languages. That’s my animal of choice right now for enhanced mesh and brain bending 8-).
Lemo
Thanks! Great idea to display all four views. I’ll go back to the drawing board for that one. Funny that there is no solution out there… I can’t be the only one drowning in models hahaha.
Lemo
Deep Exploration at http://www.righthemisphere.com will generate thumbnails from many different formats, including OBJ. I know $149 is not cheap, but it is primarily a file converter.
Here’s a cheaper one, 3D Photo Browser, I just came across at http://www.mootools.com I have not used it yet, but it looks like it might do thumbnails, and it converts files too. They have 3 levels, $20, $29 and $49.
Chris