by TIG » Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:54 pm
TIG
Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:54 pm
There IS basic material editing in Sketchup - use the Materials Browser.
If there's a Texture you can edit that in an external app - you need to specify that in your 'preferences'.
You can save SKP's SKM materials as external files to use in other SKPs etc...
BUT IF you mean somehow linking OCS and SKP [SKM] materials so you can edit the materials for one in the other, it's NO.
The two applications materials are inherently different.
When you export a OBJ/MTL/Textures_folder from the SKP and use it in the OCS, Octane interprets the MTL file's data to make the RGB [for some yet to be explained reason the material's Alpha data is ignored!] and it also uses any specified texture-file, with appropriate UV-mapping, so that the SKP and OCS materials match pretty well [save for the transparency]...
Once imported, then on a re-import changed SKP-materials do not affect the equivalent named material already lodged in the OCS, only a brand new SKP-material is considered.
It may be that sometime in the future an fully integrated SKP/OCS interface could be developed, but that is not yet in prospect...
TIG