Hi,

The bowl in OBJ format downloaded from there contains only 1 material for the whole scene.
Octane reads that one material and applies it to everything as it should.

Octane requires OBJ+MTL files with different materials assigned to different objects in the OBJ file for you to be able to ...

Hi,

You need to see if there is an MTL file exported together with the OBJ file.
this file contains the different materials.

It's likely an export problem.
please post a shot of your export panel configuration in your host app...

Radiance

Hi,

Yes there is a MTL file with the OBJ, but this is ...

Hi,

You need to see if there is an MTL file exported together with the OBJ file.
this file contains the different materials.

It's likely an export problem.
please post a shot of your export panel configuration in your host app...

Radiance

Hi,

Yes there is a MTL file with the OBJ, but this is ...

Actually, it seems that your whole scene uses only one single material - the light color stays the same.
In my experience - using Rhinoceros, though - this can happen when names are truncated. E.g. if you have "Basic Material 01" and "Basic Material 02" every object in the scene will have the first ...

Hi,

Complete novice here (with Octane at least).

I'm having problems picking material zones on my objects with the colour picker to change the materials properties.

I'm viewing the video 'Octane Interface' and following that, but Octane sees/changes everything as one material on imported obj's ...

Hi,

Complete novice here (with Octane at least).

I'm having problems picking material zones on my objects with the colour picker to change the materials properties.

I'm viewing the video 'Octane Interface' and following that, but Octane sees/changes everything as one material on imported obj's ...