Layered material issue Tweet

[J.C]

A - Windows 10
B - 4xRTX 2080
C - 8GB
D - Studio driver 442.92
E - v2020.1
F - 2020.1 R7
G - C4d r21

Any material from list can not be added to Layered material as a base material. It's only possible to add base material using button (add material).

[aoktar]

Why don't you think that's the way you should use rather than saying BUG? It's how it works.

[J.C]

This makes no sense for me. Mix works for normal materials. Other only for sub materials. Why it is that way? Looks like a bug, not a feature.
In Standalone there is no such limitation. All materials work with mix, layered and composite.

[aoktar]

This makes no sense for me. Mix works for normal materials. Other only for sub materials. Why it is that way? Looks like a bug, not a feature.
In Standalone there is no such limitation. All materials work with mix, layered and composite.

I can't do anything for your feeling! It has to be like that to fit all sub materials in to one material space.

Note that:
Sub material = octane material in texture form, so composite material can store sub materials

[J.C]

C4D plugin. Only submatrials. Not all available.

Standalone. All materials available.

What if I want to have one common material that is used across few other layered/composite materials? Any change to that common material would be seen instantly in other materials. In current workflow I would have to adjust every single materials to make a change.

Why not to give user an option to use either Sub material or Standard materials?

[aoktar]

Explained why I chose this way. It's to avoid problems of mix material system. Keeping all stored in a compact way.
You can still convert octane materials to sub materials and connect. There's a command in node editor for doing this