Unable to get Textures to Render Octane 4 for Maya

[jibbles10]

This is has to be the 10th time I've have tried this Octane for Maya for Demo over the years, and each time I can never figure out how to get the textures to render in the view port, no matter how many tutorial videos I watch, or scouring of the manual for information I do. (See Picture)

I must be missing some simple information somewhere, perhaps a simple box unchecked, or a slider in the wrong position, because there is no explanation to how to simply make this happen, so end up giving up. But I'm determined this time to give this plug-in a chance again.

So Bla Bla Bla, how do you take premade scene or object like the Octane Chess Sample scene that already has textures set up and make it render in the Octane viewport?

Somebody,... anybody.... please help?

[calus]

There is a basic tool in the Octane menu to convert legacy materials to Octane materials, conversion options are in render setting.

[jibbles10]

There is a basic tool in the Octane menu to convert legacy materials to Octane materials, conversion options are in render setting.

Ok thanks calus, yes it does work to a certain degree, it's kind of weird how suddenly after using the converter tool everything in the Maya view port looses its details and all the objects look pastel in color and plain. If rendered they look decent, but if I wanted to do a view port playblast of the Maya viewport, I guess that would be out of the question after doing a conversion.

Also, unfortunately when importing in other 3rd party objects like a car or human that are already textured this conversion tool doesnt work very well. After the conversion all the view port objects loose a lot of their details and materials, look pastel in color, and make it hard to judge what things will look like until you render. Also digging deeper they require intensive material tweaking and re-hooking up materails that get lost in the conversion to get it near what it was intended to look like.

I've tried to do this clean up work and it is almost like starting from scratch every time. It's very problematic when importing and converting 3rd party content to use in Octane. Definite bummer.

Is there another way to convert to Octane materials without have to do so much clean up work that conversion tool causes?

[calus]

Right this Octane Material converter is a very weak tool but the only other way is to write your own converter.
On the other side, once you are used to the octane nodes and settings, it can be pretty fast to setup all Octane Materials and textures by hand.