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  • Published 14 Aug 2026

Add support materials, color and UV data for import OBJ and Import PLY nodes

Hello, dear Blender developers. Since it is not possible to extract materials, mesh colors, and mesh UVs from the Import OBJ and Import PLY nodes, I would like to suggest adding support for these data so that you can assign this data to geometry data from the Import nodes. Materials from the Import OBJ node will be extracted as a list, and to assign materials from the list to each instance, you need to extract the material index field, which we connect to the Get List Item node and assign the instance’s faces to the materials. Colors and UVs in the Import PLY node can be stored separately, either per-vertex or per-face; therefore, you need to add the logical sockets “Is Per-Face UV” and “Is Per-Face Color” to correctly assign the color and UV data. Import nodes 2.0.png

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karnup101
14 Aug 2026

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