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Hi selden
Sorry if I'm meddling, but I was wondering if you
have considered modifying the obj export script ?

Interesting.
I watched the original series in the sixties.
Never thought at the time that it would still
be around some 55 years later.
Bf109, is it a reference to the plane ?

https://www.anim8or.com/smf/index.php/topic,6112.0.html

3. "Normal Map" A normal is a unity vector perpendicular to a surface. It gives the orientation of the surface  at a point and is used to calculate lighting at that point. The rgb value of each pixel of a Normal Map gives a normal value  for this pixel.
vec3 rgb_normal = normal * 0.5 + 0.5; // transforms from [-1,1] to [0,1]  Reverse the formula to get the normal from rgb.
Similar to Bump Map.
Examples here:
https://www.anim8or.com/smf/index.php/topic,5341.0.html

Old Codger
If you click on the link, you'll see that I was simply quoting
Steve.
I know it was written  as an export script example.
The quote made me think it could be useful.
If there's ever a problem with the export function, you
could use the script  and possibly change it.

Are you writing a Blender export plugin ?

http://www.anim8or.com/download/preview/files/animcl1395.zip

Typing it worked. Adding it to the post also. But after I corrected my post, it stopped working.

I would like to add this to Steve's explanation hoping that
it would help you understand:

In point mode, if you double
click on a point, you get its coordinates.
In object mode, if you double
click on a mesh you get a transform
(translation + rotation) to be applied
to each point of the mesh before rendering
to the viewport. Think of Location as a translation.

When you join 2 meshes, all the points coordinates
are updated by applying their mesh transform and
the new mesh transform is set to 0.