[FEATURE]: Chaning of .obj/.ply files into .blend files

[themasterlink]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Loading .obj or .ply files takes forever, it would be much nicer if those can be loaded at the same speed as .blend files can be loaded.

Describe the solution you'd like
Add a ENV_VAR which can be set, which then asks blenderproc to check if the given file path, was used before if it was not used before load the file normally and create a .blend file, then the next time this blend file will be loaded instead of the original file.

[Victorlouisdg]

There's someone working on drastically speeding up .obj loading: Twitter thread

I'm not sure when it will be integrated though, maybe Blender 3.2? If so, it might be worth the wait before implementing a custom solution.

[MartinSmeyer]

There's someone working on drastically speeding up .obj loading: Twitter thread

this seems to be related to .obj exporting not importing, right?

[themasterlink]

Hey,

it seems there is also a request for that: https://developer.blender.org/D13958, which says that is 4 times faster importing .obj files.

I agree with @Victorlouisdg that we can put this on hold for now. But, loading blend files is much much faster, even if the make it four times faster.

Best regards,
Max

[Victorlouisdg]

My bad, I indeed did misread export for import.

Maybe this could fit into a larger project to integrate with the new Asset Browser? All downloaded assets (model and textures) would automatically be converted to .blend files and saved in the user's default asset library: ~/Documents/Blender/Assets.

[themasterlink]

I think you didn't see my answer there is a new importer planed.

But, I agree integrating the new asset browser could also be a nice feature.