Fix problem with saving texture coordinates in obj with OpenMesh

There is a great library OpenMesh for working with 3D meshes which has Python version.

I had a problem with saving texture coordinates in obj file. I use Python version of OpenMesh for manipulating with texture coordinates in 3D mesh stored in obj file and save the result mesh using method write_mesh. When I open the resultant obj file there is no texture coordinates information, only list of vertices and faces.

Let’s say we have following code

mesh = om.TriMesh()

# create vertices 
vh0 = mesh.add_vertex([0, 1, 0]) 
vh1 = mesh.add_vertex([1, 0, 0])
...

mesh.set_texcoord2D(vh1, [0.24, 0.4])

And we write mesh to obj file

om.write_mesh('test_tex.obj', mesh)

Open test_tex.obj and its content is following

# 5 vertices, 1 faces                                                                                                                                                   v 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000                                                                                                                                            v 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000                                                                                                                                            v 2.000000 1.000000 0.000000                                                                                                                                            v 0.000000 -1.000000 0.000000                                                                                                                                           v 2.000000 -1.000000 0.000000                                                                                                                                           f 1 2 3

To solve this problem pass argument vertex_tex_coord in the method write_mesh (source):

om.write_mesh('test1_tex.obj', mesh, vertex_tex_coord=True)

Now rerun the script and open the obj file

# 5 vertices, 1 faces                                                                                                                                                   vt 0.000000 0.000000                                                                                                                                                    vt 0.240000 0.400000                                                                                                                                                    vt inf inf                                                                                                                                                              v 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000                                                                                                                                            v 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000                                                                                                                                            v 2.000000 1.000000 0.000000                                                                                                                                            v 0.000000 -1.000000 0.000000                                                                                                                                           v 2.000000 -1.000000 0.000000                                                                                                                                           f 1/1 2/2 3/3

That’s it. Good luck in working with OpenMesh.