wavefront_reader

A parser for wavefront .obj and .mtl files

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://wavefront-reader.readthedocs.io.

Features

Reads out wavefront objects to dictionaries with their attributes, including their materials:

from wavefront_reader import read_wavefront, read_objfile, read_mtlfile
geoms = read_wavefront('myObjects.obj')
cube = geoms['Cube']
cube_vertices = cube['v']
cube_diffuse_material = cube['material']['Kd']

The module has a lot of tests, and handles face indexing by re-indexing the vertex, normal, and texcoord arrays simply by reindexing them into same-length, sequential arrays. While this reduces the memory benefits of the .obj format, it makes it much easier to load the data into OpenGL or reindex the data yourself.

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.