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...or NitroBake

If the goal is to get the hue correct, rendering the subject in white and multiplying it with the swatch in post is something I've seen done to produced the client expected result by people a little smarter than me. It's important to make sure the lighting environment is color neutral too.

Create -> Bake As Alembic, playback until the desired frame and then Current State to Object. The Current State to Object bakes geometry under deformers and effectors not under simulations

Hate to burst anyone's OBJ bubble, but they aren't dead (and probably won't be anytime soon). Are they missing tons of features that exist in other formats? Yes, but they're plain text... which makes them incredibly readable, editable, and portable. Everything can open an OBJ. I've been getting quite a lot of volumetric video assets from Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios over the last 6 months and it's all OBJ/PNG sequences (and no MTL files). I've ended up using python to generate, rename, relink, import, export tens of thousands of individual frames and images. I couldn't have pulled it off without it. I know there are some artists that recoil at the thought, but python has been what's saved me from just about everything missing from Maxon's toolset. Way easier and more powerful than switching programs entirely.

Modelling is my main thing, so you'd think I would use Max, who's modelling toolset was once thought of as unrivalled. And indeed I started there. And yet I note that I use Cinema now and would not go back, for a multitude of reasons... I suspect you will find many, many more things that annoy you in Max than do in Cinema, if you move there. The grass may 'look' greener on the other side, and it is, as far as mtls are concerned, but you may find you don't like the taste of the rest of it 😉 'Try before buy' would be my advice, not that you can ever properly 'own' that software of course... CBR