Material Problem - Bump crazy high Tweet

[Rogurt]

Hi all

I am new to octane but experienced in other engines (cycles, mawell, vray). When I setup universal materials with bump I need to dial the bump WAY! down get reasonable results (either via imageTexture/Power or using Octane gradient).
So I imagined loading a material from online db and studying settings would be sensible thing to do. But the downloaded material looks totally different from the DB preview. I used the material_preview_sceme.c4d from "v3_sample_scenes.zip" (file dates mostly around 2016).

My questions:
- could I expect to use DB materials looking the same as in the DB preview image? is this maybe a scaling issue? how can I get this to work?
- can someone tell me what range "normal" bump values would be like? 0,00001 rather than 0,01?
- how would you import/connect/treat an b/w bump image before feeding to the bump input
- can one "solo" view a node like in cycles4D?

Cheers
Rogurt

[bepeg4d]

Hi Rogurt,
welcome.

About Bump, it has changed in 2023.1 SDK, now there is a new Bump height parameter, while in the past it was controlled by the Power value of the texture.
To have the same behavior, you need to go to the Basic tab of the material, and change the Compatibility mode to 2022.1:

About Solo mode, right click on a texture node in Node Editor, or use the "D" shortcut:

ciao,
Beppe