Color Change in Animation not exporting.

[hitennainaney]

Hello Masters!

A CGI Noob here. Been learning CGI (Overall) for just under 2 months now. Enjoying every bit of it.

I'm currently using Octane 3.04.3 for Cinema 4d on C4D R17.

I've created a basic animation with a camera rotating around a car and the color of the car changing as we proceed through the animation.

I've changed the color of the car by keyframing the different colors on the octane material.

When previewing the animation in Live viewer - Everything works solid - Just the way I want it to.

However, When I'm exporting an Animated Package (Orbx) to standalong - The car refuses to change colors & sticks to just being black (Base Color)

Any idea what I might be doing wrong ?

Appreciate any guidance!

Cheers
Hiten Nainaney

[aoktar]

Exporting of scenes as ORBX is still work in progress. Can you make some test? Just leave related object and try export again. If it's still acting like that send us an example to test it.

[hitennainaney]

Exporting of scenes as ORBX is still work in progress. Can you make some test? Just leave related object and try export again. If it's still acting like that send us an example to test it.

Sure - Let me test it & post results.

If that doesn't work - Is there any other way i can export to standalone ?

Cheers!

Thanks Ahmet!

[hitennainaney]

Exporting of scenes as ORBX is still work in progress. Can you make some test? Just leave related object and try export again. If it's still acting like that send us an example to test it.

Hey Ahmet,

Still the same Result.

How can I send you the scene for testing ?

Cheers!

[aoktar]

Can you send it as rar through by PM? Click to my nick and send a message. Attach your file. Thanks!

[hitennainaney]

Can you send it as rar through by PM? Click to my nick and send a message. Attach your file. Thanks!

Sent good sir!

So, I ran a test with a simple cube and camera movement with the color changing - It works.

Compared render settings for both - Exactly the same.

Still trying to understand and figure it out though.

Let me know if you manage to figure out the problem.

Cheers!

[aoktar]

Thanks for scene! It's unexpected case and i'm not sure that's understandable by users. But i'll try to explain why this happened.
ORBX exporter expects a continuity for nodes of materials to able to save animation data. See first image. We have "float texture node" for black. In second we now have "rbg Spectrum node" for Red. And this caused a break on exported node.
Plugin don't care this for Interactive mode in LV or animation rendering. But exporter is sensitive to availability of nodes. I hope this part makes some sense.

Now solution:
Create rgb spectrum in diffuse slot. And animate it. So exporter will write all data without destroying it. Obviously this is a case to be handled differently by plugin for export mode. But will require a lot changes.

[hitennainaney]

Thanks for scene! It's unexpected case and i'm not sure that's understandable by users. But i'll try to explain why this happened.
ORBX exporter expects a continuity for nodes of materials to able to save animation data. See first image. We have "float texture node" for black. In second we now have "rbg Spectrum node" for Red. And this caused a break on exported node.
Plugin don't care this for Interactive mode in LV or animation rendering. But exporter is sensitive to availability of nodes. I hope this part makes some sense.

Now solution:
Create rgb spectrum in diffuse slot. And animate it. So exporter will write all data without destroying it. Obviously this is a case to be handled differently by plugin for export mode. But will require a lot changes.

a1.jpg

a2.jpg

Thanks for that Ahmet - I'll give it a try right away and get back to you with the results.

I'm sure it'll work !

[hitennainaney]

Worked like a charm Sir!

Thanks once again!

[aoktar]

Worked like a charm Sir!

Thanks once again!

Great to hear! Enjoy it. Thanks for helps!