I wasn't sure if to start a new topic or not, but as this is my first post (hello everyone) I thought I'd start a new one.
My problem is I'm afraid I don't seem to be having the same experience with materials as others. At least I'm suprised that no one is reporting problems as serious as I'm having.
Simply put...the material settings from octane save fine, if I just intend to reopen the scene file at a later date, but if I make any changes to a scene in blender and I'm re-rendering, (or on the few basic animations I've tried) all of the material changes made in octane are lost and replaced with freshly exported blender materials.
I do make sure I click on 'use exisiting project' which seems to just ask me to confirm the path to the project but doesn't stay highllighted. (is that right?)
If I make no changes in blender and just export the obj/mat then the octane materials are preserved if I manually restart the project in octane.
If I change anything and use the exporter (still or animation) all my octane material changes are lost and return to the basic exported blender materials.
Am I missing something? because it doesn't seem right. Surely it's normal to make last minute changes to a scene having seen an initial render (without having to redo the scores of materials in the scene each time)
Thanks in advance and apologies if I'm being dim!
Giles