hello Paul,
last week we had a very severe data loss in the office, as a result a lot of materials in old projects are now missing their texture paths. While it is a very nice feature that octane searches for the texture in a user definable folder and its subfolders, I still run into problems:
1. octane reports a texture map as missing. Sadly I do not have this texture anymore. So I have to click on chancel , but now the whole process for finding the other textures is canceled too... -> I would prefer to be able to a) have the option to define a new texture to replace the original one, and alternativly b) be able to just skip this single individual texture and keep octane searching for the other ones...
2. when I have materials with textures missing, it would be very helpful to have some kind of optical recognizable alarm , like a red exclamation mark or something similar over the material preview, to show the user that there is something missing/wrong. Furthermore the old path, under which the texture is supposed to be found should be displayed (maybe also in red color...) in the corresponding texture slot, together with the texture name like e.g. //server/libraries/mappings/wood/hardwoodfloor-04.jpeg . This way it would be much easier to find the cause of the problem and eventually find another similar fitting texture.
I hope I was able to describe the problem comprehensible
best regards
Andreas