moving from octane 2 to 3

[Pullakk]

Hey. I have been using Octane 2 all this time despite purchasing 3 back in May last year
Finally had some trouble with PC and had to reinstall all. So went for 3.0

But all my scenes are opening without maps....

Any help?

[whersmy]

Octane links your maps to the folder they were in originally. Or does octane not load any maps at all? You could export your old scenes as .orbx, re-open them with OR 3, and unpack your .orbx again, and save the scene as .ocs.

[WhaleHunter]

Pullakk:

There were significant changes to the core of the max plugin between versions 1.9 to 2.24 and beyond. This means that by default octane 3 cannot read the materials from these old files.

There is a tool for conversion.
Look under the tools tab in the render window - there are checkboxes there.

Backup / copy original files to test - you will have to go through and open each xref and save as "_v3" or something etc, to convert the required old files.

This conversion tool mostly works.

Cheers,
N.