Creating textured STEP models for 3D view

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Hi Mario @kammutierspule ,
there are two methods to add a texture to a wrl file..
VRML has two texture nodes that can contain image data:
ImageTexture, which offers the field url and thus uses external image files
PixelTexture, which offers the field image and thus actually embeds image data in the VRML file.
Both method are not supported in KiCad 3D viewer ATM
There is a nice thread at freecad forum (unfortunately in German)

[Gelöst]Texturen in VRML-Datei einbetten - FreeCAD Forum

Here a sample of the two wrl files
freecad wrl url & embed files

There is also a nice python code snippet to convert a wrl with url in to a wrl embedded

[Gelöst]Texturen in VRML-Datei einbetten - FreeCAD Forum

Do you think it could be implemented in dev V6?
EDIT:
If you could enable the url option in 3D viewer, I could add an option to map a texture to a face when exporting a STEP file to wrl in FreCAD StepUp

PS an old post about texture

Does the 3D viewer support textures?

Hi @cbernardo @kammutierspule @rolandking there is a dirty trick to have texture available in VRML file … if you just export your 3d board and VRML models with kicad copying the models to 3D path, and then change your VRML model without texture with a model with texture in that folder, you can have a VRML representation of board and modules with the desired texture that would be nice/useful e.g. for povray generation of 3d realistic rendering or blender picture rendering or animation 3d scr…