Blender Combines Objects - Not Wanted!

[Lark]

I've officially used Blender and Grimrock Modeling Toolkit for about three days now. I'm starting to get around in the a little, but I'm stumped. I have four distinct objects in Blender, but when I export them to .obj (as taught in Skuggasveinn's tutorials (love you man! I'm glad you won the game giveaway!)), I wind up with only one imported object in GMT, so I can't assign different textures. Something in the import/export is combining the objects, I think. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks, -Lark

[Skuggasveinn]

what are you export settings ?

[Lark]

I did a screen snippet of your YouTube video when you showed us the export settings. All are off except for: Apply Modifiers, Include Edges, Smooth Groups, Write Normals, Include UVs, Write Materials, Triangulate Faces, Objects as OBJ Groups, and Z-Forward. I've watched that video so many times, it's a wonder it's not worn out! Are these the settings to which you are referring?

[minmay]

.obj format also does not support animation so you might want to use GrimFBX instead. Just be warned that Blender's FBX exporter is kind of bad.

[Skuggasveinn]

yes, your export settings are correct

two things then to check out.

first: does your scene truly have more then one object
The following screenshot shows 2 objects (it's possible to have one object that has child meshes, and will import into the GMT as one object)


second: are you using the Assimp Importer in GMT ? (don't use the Obj Model importer, it has issues)

Skuggasveinn.

[Lark]

I use the Assimp when I can, but for this model, I get error "GMTAssimpBridge: The given key was not present in the dictionary". I'm lucky I can select faces and scale, and I have no idea what this error means.

My Scene isn't as clean as yours. I highlighted my actual models. Now I think I just need to figure how to get them on the "right level".



Thanks, -Lark