I understand LiveDB is storing materials used by scenes at a local folder? Is there an option to keep ALL the LiveDB materials local, so we don't have to wait until it downloads them when editing materials? Even though I have cable broadband, I noticed the mouse-over previews still get sluggish because they have to access the materials remotely. I would prefer to access them locally for the sake of performance. How large is this package?
When you mouse-over, it loads the preview into memory, and then if you re-mouse-over, it pulls the preview from memory. There is no easy way to download all the LiveDB to your PC, since a) if would take too long, and b) it wouldn't be Live
In theory the plugin could be enhanced to download each LiveDB material into Poser plugin import/export format, but you would need to download the whole liveDB regularly, and it would take a long time. I have noticed the LiveDB performance has improved dramatically in the past month (potentially due to Otoy increasing bandwidth).
Also, if you load a LiveDB material in the Poser plugin, then export it (or save the Poser scene), the Octane nodes will be referencing the texturemaps in the LiveDB download cache area - so it is important these are not deleted, so that's why they need to go into the Preferences area rather than the current Temp folder.
BTW, wouldn't the next version be 1.02t?
Yes - my error. In fact, hopefully 1.11t.
Paul