Do Wavefront .obj files support animation?

zaratustra picture zaratustra · Apr 16, 2009 · Viewed 41k times · Source

How does one export a 3D Studio animated model to OBJ format (if possible)? What will be the resulting file like? How would I read that?

Answer

Brian Campbell picture Brian Campbell · Apr 16, 2009

No, .obj files do not support animation.

You can check the .obj specification for details of what it does support.

You could potentially export one .obj per frame, but that would be cumbersome. Depending on the tools, it may be possible to export one .obj per keyframe.