Obj Mesh Sequence Importer Demo for Blender 4.5

Blender 4.5 Geometry Nodes has new node importers for mesh formats obj, stl and ply. These are designed to import a single mesh on the fly.

This demo contains a node group that extends this and will allow a mesh sequence of objs to play from an external folder. The demo has functionality to offset the animation per instance and a random color attribute. Animation can also potentially be offset in a number of ways, including by falloff or index range.

To use another looped animation, you will need to export it from blender into a folder as a series of obj files. The obj exporter in blender has an "animation" option with a customizable frame range. This file path can then be referenced by the node group by the changing the file path field, and also the sequence frame range length.

This project file was created with blender 4.5 alpha so it may need to be updated before the official release of 4.5

Updated to a v2 with improved performance and simpler group node.

Node group and scene license CC BY-ND

Can be used for commercial work and shared but cannot be resold or rebundled into a commercial product.

Please note that the fox model and animation is only used as a demo reference and has a separate license, as it was not created by me:

"Fox Walk" (https://skfb.ly/6YAUW) by tiikeri is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).