Octane exporter for C4D version 0.02

[abstrax]

NOTE: I think I found a bug in the material export that duplicates materials during the export. Later today I will release version 0.03 of the exporter plugin that provides a simple material conversion to the MTL format and that fixes this problem. I just have to do a few more tests.

Hi all,

attached you will find the next version of the Octane exporter. This time the "Render" button works and the edit fields in groups "Film" and "Camera" should work now (except "Motion Blur"). If you have set up your Octane binary and click on "Render" Octane gets launched and will open the exported OBJ file. If no Octane scene file with the project name exists yet, a new one is created. If there is already an OCS file, the OBJ export will be loaded and relinked, i.e. the materials of the Octane scene will be assigned to the geometry of the new OBJ mesh that has the same material name. This way you can change the geometry in C4D while not having to recreate materials again.

Important: As everything is done using material names you should avoid material name dupes. Duplicate material names are handled to some degree it's a lot better to have unique material names to start with.

On Macs please choose the .app file as Octane binary. The plugin then determines internally the full path to the actual binary inside the application bundle. I couldn't test the launch of Octane on my Mac with all those command line parameters, but I hope it works. If not, please let me know and I will try to fix it.

Camera export works pretty straight forward: Select a camera that should be exported to Octane. Film offsets are not supported in Octane yet. If you enable the export of the focal depth, either the specified depth is used or you set the value to 0 and the focal depth (focal distance) of the camera object is used.

Thanks to Mantra who has updated the Russian strings again.

These are the PC builds of the plugin:

CINEMA 4D R9.6 (32/64bit):

OctaneExport_0.02_win_r9.6_release.zip

(134.98 KiB) Downloaded 410 times

CINEMA 4D R10.1 - 11.0 (32/64bit):

OctaneExport_0.02_win_r10.1_release.zip

(135.29 KiB) Downloaded 392 times

CINEMA 4D R11.5 (32/64bit):

OctaneExport_0.02_win_r11.5_release.zip

(215.46 KiB) Downloaded 452 times

These are the Mac builds of the plugin:

CINEMA 4D R9.6 (32bit):

OctaneExport_0.02_mac_r9.6_release.zip

(100.05 KiB) Downloaded 394 times

CINEMA 4D R10.1 - 10.5 (32bit):

OctaneExport_0.02_mac_r10.1_release.zip

(138.18 KiB) Downloaded 381 times

CINEMA 4D R11.0 (32/64bit):

OctaneExport_0.02_mac_r11.0_release.zip

(282.55 KiB) Downloaded 408 times

CINEMA 4D R11.5 (32/64bit):

OctaneExport_0.02_mac_r11.5_release.zip

(311.29 KiB) Downloaded 411 times

Happy rendering,
Marcus

[mantra]

thx

[Stephan3D]

perfect, many many thanks

[iacx]

Thanks abstrax!

[ribrahomedesign]

thanks
works pretty well .maybe its me doing something wrong ,but if i select the editor camera it exports perfect, if
i select any other camera octane crashes .
when do you think we will be able to export Materials ?
thanks again for your good work.
Rico

[useruser]

thank you so much abstrax!

[mat536]

Thank you very much!

[smoove.o]

hi,
i work with cinema 4d and i have a question

how can i export c4d(obj.) file with textures?

i have download the c4d plugin, but texture exort is not existing

how can i get this

thanks

smoove.o

ps: sorry my english is not so good

[abstrax]

hi,
i work with cinema 4d and i have a question

how can i export c4d(obj.) file with textures?

i have download the c4d plugin, but texture exort is not existing

how can i get this

thanks

smoove.o

ps: sorry my english is not so good

Materials are not exported correctly yet. You have to set them up yourself in Octane. You then save the Octane scene and if you then change your C4D scene, you can easily update the Octane scene using the relink mechanism.

As a better material export seems to be the most requested feature now, I will work on a better material export for 0.03. Keep in mind though, that I will probably never be able to export materials from C4D to Octane via OBJ/MTL files, in a way that you don't have to tune the materials in Octane. The reason is that C4D and Octane materials work quite differently and that materials in OBJ work differently again.

Cheers,
Marcus

[abstrax]

thanks
works pretty well .maybe its me doing something wrong ,but if i select the editor camera it exports perfect, if
i select any other camera octane crashes .
when do you think we will be able to export Materials ?
thanks again for your good work.
Rico

Could you please send me a test scene, where that happens?

Cheers,
Marcus