Native 3d surface renders differently than imported?

[danmylotte]

Here you can see a natively created box and an imported obj with the same surface renderer set to Image File. The imported object seems to "average" the image and this behavior is the same no matter what I select (checker, image, video). Am I missing something here? It's not a scaling issue, this has no effect on this averaging.

[Walter_heen]

Hey!
Did you try to add a "Attribute -> UV mapping" to your imported object?

[francis]

Indeed, it seems that your important .obj file has no UV coordinates, which result in this "averaging" effect.
As @Walter_heen suggested, you can create some UV coordinates directly within Smode using the "Attribute > UV Mapping" or "Attribute > Camera UV Mapping" 3D modifiers.

[danmylotte]

OHHH! Thank so much for the help. Very glad to have discovered SMODE