Re: NEW : OctaneRender for Blender beta released!
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 11:23 pm
One of the things I really wish Blender had is a material library (like Octanes LiveDB). It's a real pain to have to set up each material from scratch each time you create a scene when you're just trying to throw together a quick concept render. Now from the video, it looks like this Octane plugin for Blender still requires you to create each material from scratch (or am I missing something!). If you could drag and drop LiveDB materials onto selected polygons in the blender scene it would solve what I think is a big deficiency in Blender. Without this feature I'm not sure i see much point in just not using cycles from within blender. Certainly the demo video could have been done just as well using regular blender and cycles. Just my two cents worth...