Converting Octane Materials from Cinema 4D to Blender Tweet

[thetaiotaphyo]

Hello!

So there are lots of great looking Octane materials out there, like on Greyscalegorilla for example, but most of them are specifically for C4D. My question is: other than getting a Cinema 4D with Octane subscriptions and manually recreating material node trees from C4D to Blender — is there a less painful workflow for getting these materials to work in Blender? Thanks.

[bepeg4d]

Hi,
you could save c4doctane materials in the LocalDB, then open Blender, and import in it the saved materials from LocalDB:
https://docs.otoy.com/cinema4d/Download ... erial.html

ciao,
Beppe

[thetaiotaphyo]

So I still need Cinema 4D and Octane for C4D subscriptions for this?

[bepeg4d]

Hi,

you could use C4D demo version, and there are no more separated plugins licenses from a long time now.
if you have an active license, you can install and use any type of Octane DCC plugin, c4doctane included.

ciao,
Beppe

[thetaiotaphyo]

Ok, just to clarify: I only need 1 Octane license to perform this operation? Thanks.

P.S.: https://docs.otoy.com/cinema4d/Download ... erial.html - this link is broken (404), for me at least.

[bepeg4d]

Yes correct, only one license, and here is the corrected link to documentation:
https://docs.otoy.com/Cinema4D/Download ... erial.html

ciao,
Beppe

[thetaiotaphyo]

Ok, thank you for clarifying this!