[SOLVED] loadFromUrl model as .obj

[ivodidutch]

I am trying to load a 3d model (.obj) from an url but the file name does not have a file extention. Is there a way to force a specific model parser? Right now it logs: WARNING: No model parser found and then errors.

[Leonidas]

Yes, the OBJ parser isn’t included in the playcanvas engine build by default.

You will have to include and register it yourself, instructions here:

playcanvas/engine/blob/245afc498fd3e189f6166c6b060a6443e65cf0b9/examples/assets/scripts/loaders/obj-model.js

[ivodidutch]

Do you also happen to know how I can load a texture as a .png, if it does not have a file extension? I know it looks at the extension to find out how to load it but all my files are without one

[Leonidas]

That’s a hard one, since the current resource loaders are getting the resource type from the extension.

One way I’ve done it in the past is using base64 data streams and create the pc.Assets myself:

[SOLVED] Load a texture using base64 data string

Check this, it doesn’t provide a code sample but the logic is sound and I can confirm it is working: You need to download your image and create a pc.Texture. Here is a sample on how to manually create a pc.Texture from a remote source (it uses a video source, but using an Img element would be the same): https://developer.playcanvas.com/en/tutorials/video-textures/ Then create manually a pc.Asset of type “texture” and assign your custom pc.Texture to it.

[ivodidutch]

That worked, thanks a lot - again