Importing meshes with separate textures in Blender 2.80
Channel: Inh2l
Date: 2020-02-23

Tutorial on how to import meshes with separate texture files in Blender 2.80 (for example .obj or .ply meshes with .png or .jpg textures), similar to how you would load them in other Mesh displaying software such as MeshLab.

Also works in Blender 2.93.

If you import a .ply file, note that it needs to have per-vertex UV coordinates with specific names. Per-wedge and other names do not work, see my answer here: https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/240331/why-does-blender-not-load-a-textured-plys-texture