Hi guys.

I finished first part of this project - it took me a while (couple of months actually) , but I wanted it to be as polished as possible.

Anyway - wood presets, called Wood Expert - are now availalbe for purchase.

Here you will find every information that you need: http://brain-3.net ...

Hi guys.

Have You ever struggled with wood material? Struggle no more, become Wood Expert 1.0 :)

After months of development I finally made it. Now available for purchase:
http://brain-3.net/product/octane-promaterials-wood-expert/
You can find there every information that is needed.

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WIPEXO - Thx for the insight.

I am considering splitting it up for categories like wood, concrete etc, and ofcourse a bundle package for all materials together (or smaller bundles).

Here is the progress:

For start I did around 40 wood presets - you can checkout a brief youtube video: https ...

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Hello everyone.

For the last couple of years I was working with octane on many different projects, and the story was more or less the same - lack of decent materials library from the start therefore searching for maps, creating own shaders etc. All above cost time and we all know that ...

Hi,

The above technique gives the best results so far.

I tried gradients, noises, diffuse etc - the above is the best (and pretty straight forward).

Regards,
Mac

Hi.

Thank you for your opinion.

Well it won't be 200 textures but materials (many would share the same maps) or I would say shaders since each one will be configurable (wear, dirt etc).

Anyway, I started doing this project, it took me 2 weeks to make basic plastic almost done. Whole RAL palette ...

As cgpanda said - then select that "placement" node nad enable gizmo in the viewport panel - you should see the gizmo on the render (you can switch between local and world coordinates).
Best practice is to use separate camera node (since octane can handle only one viewport) to manipulate objects ...

Hi,

Thank you for your insight.

I am aiming for top quality (substance designer would be involved in the process) and variety - the main goal is to forget about creating new materials since this pack would have everything that is needed (and more), and would be extended with "whishlist" materials ...

Not sure, only way to know is to test it.

Hey,

One solution is to restart rhino