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I am new to Blender. I have 2 objects (e.g 2 box mesh) I would like to export their properties as obj file using python scripting. I would like to export the vertex of both objects firstly, followed by their faces. This is the code I am using below

import bpy

obj = list(bpy.data.objects)

    print("Cube\n")
    for a in obj:
        mesh =a.data
        for v in mesh.vertices:
        #random output compared to what we have in the original file
            print("v %.4f %.4f %.4f\n" % v.co[:]) #x,y,z coordinates     
    
    print("\n # 8 vertices\n")
    for a in obj:
        mesh =a.data
    
        print( "g " +a.name+ "\n")
        for p in mesh.polygons:             
            print("f")
            for i in p.vertices: 
                print(" %d" % (i + 1))  
            print( "\n")
OUTPUT
g.cube 1

f 1 2 4 3
f 3 4 8 7
f 7 8 6 5
f 5 6 2 1
f 3 7 5 1
f 8 4 2 6

g Cube.002

f 1 2 4 3
f 3 4 8 7
f 7 8 6 5
f 5 6 2 1
f 3 7 5 1
f 8 4 2 6

Both faces of both objects are the same. This is not what I want. I would like the faces of the second object to start from 9 and so on.

How do I go about this?

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    $\begingroup$ Each mesh has its own face indexation, meaning it will only contain indices between 0 and its number of vertices -1 (NOT guaranteed though because a mesh can contain vertices which are not linked to a face). If you want to add to that, you can use a global counter before the for a in obj: loop, which will be incremented after by len(mesh.vertices) for each successive object. As I said you might skip some vertices, but not knowing more about your end goal it's hard to give more precise information $\endgroup$
    – Gorgious
    Jul 18, 2021 at 21:19
  • $\begingroup$ You might save time to base your code in the original OBJ exporter as it is written in python. $\endgroup$
    – TheLabCat
    Jul 18, 2021 at 23:49

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Make a joined bmesh.

At the risk of not re-inventing the wheel, since blender ships with an OBJ exporter

As shown in [find link re joining bmeshes] can read multiple meshes into one bmesh.

  • Start with a dummy vert to move indexing up 1

  • Update normals after reading mesh to update indices. Possibly other ways to do this.

  • Increment the edge count.

Test script.

import bpy
import bmesh

context = bpy.context

bm = bmesh.new()
bm.verts.new() # since you are indexing from 1
index = 0
for ob in context.selected_objects:
    
    if not ob.type == 'MESH':
        continue
    print()
    print(f"o {ob.name}")
    print()
    bm.from_mesh(ob.data)
    # use normal update to force re-index
    bm.normal_update()
    for f in bm.faces[index:]:
        print(f"f {' '.join(str(v.index) for v in f.verts)}")
    index += len(bm.faces)

Test output.

o Cube

f 1 2 3 4
f 5 8 7 6
f 1 5 6 2
f 2 6 7 3
f 3 7 8 4
f 5 1 4 8

o Cube.001

f 9 10 11 12
f 13 16 15 14
f 9 13 14 10
f 10 14 15 11
f 11 15 16 12
f 13 9 12 16

Ultimately would join them all into one bmesh, call the normal update once. Use meshes geom counts to slice.

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