by face_off » Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:20 pm
face_off
Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:20 pm
Answering here for all to see.....
Scottie - thank you for sending the scene where you could not material pick.
The problem is caused by what appears to be a bug in the ArchiCAD API. It is truncating material names for geometry when the scene is being loaded into Octane. For example, the material "FINISH | PLASTER | INTERNAL (WALLS+CEILINGS)" is truncated to "FINISH | PLASTER | INTERNAL (WA". So it looks like there is a 30 character Surface Name limit internal to some of the ArchiCAD geometry functions.
For for the wall that you could not material pick - shorten the Surface names to 30 characters or less and it will resolve the issue.
I checked with AC18, and it contains the same limitation, however the problem is caught when loading the scene (with a "No Octane material found..." error). I will amend this error to detect if the material name is 30 chars, and if so to suggest shortening the name.
Paul