3D-Coat maps with Octane in C4D

[existe]

I am working though using maps exported out of 3D-Coat with Octane in C4D. So far it has not gone too well.

Plugin: Octane-for-C4D-V3.03.3-R1-win
Standalone: OctaneRender_3_03_2b_win

I noticed there was a 3D-Coat Metal node in the live DB, so built a metal material from 3DC and it appeared to work fine. Studied how it was built but when I create a new material and copy it 100% it does not produce the same results. In fact if I just use the 3D-Coat node material and just leave specular at default it is a very shiny metal, if I create a new glossy material within C4D and just have specular on it is a a shiny black metal. What am I missing?

This is the material made from 3D-Coat node in Live DB

3d-coat metal node

This is just a glossy material created in C4D

C4D_glossy

[mbutler2]

Glass Hand Films did some good tutorials about how to get from Substance to Octane. Maybe the process for 3D Coat to Octane could be similar...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GqeyuZ ... _L7CZ2kryu

[aoktar]

Should Index be 1.0 in first example.

[existe]

Should Index be 1.0 in first example.

That was it, so reading the help, setting it to 1 removes Frenel and anything above it is just increase in Frenel?

[offrench]

I made some tests lately and two tutorials on this subject: one for 3dCoat 4.5 and the other for 3dCoat 4.7
http://www.virtual-lands-3d.com/from-3d ... ender.html

3dCoat 4.7 has a specific workflow for Octane Render, but it does not work well if you use the metallness maps it generates for metallicity in Octane.

I am using Octane Render 3 for Poser.
Let me know if these workflows work for C4D and if can figure out improvements.

[existe]

@offrench thank you for the reply, I did in fact watch your videos, very helpful. It came down to index needing to be 1 instead of default of 1.3 within C4D. I ended up using standard Octane exports within 3DC for the C4D Octane plugin with no issues.

[offrench]

I ended up using standard Octane exports within 3DC for the C4D Octane plugin with no issues.

So there is probably a difference in the plugins or something that I missed. I will try to render my little robot in the standalone version to see how it works.