Material input of Proxy doesn't work for Animation

[Hesekiel2517]

Hey there,

i have a Proxy and want to animate the material in the plugin. This works great for scrubbing the timeline, but as soon as i hit render animation the material disappears. I will add a sample scene later.

[face_off]

I don't think you can edit the Octane material for an ORBX proxy in the plugin (this can only be done in the ORBX itself), so animating materials in this fashion is not going to be easy. You would need to have the material animation inside the ORBX used as the proxy.

Paul

[funk]

I don't think you can edit the Octane material for an ORBX proxy in the plugin (this can only be done in the ORBX itself)

That's not true actually. I guess you've forgotten about this

You added a feature to the plugin a while ago (Mesh > "Add Material Pins" button).

That will add any "material in" nodes from the ORBX to the Modo mesh, allowing you to connect materials from Modo's schematic.

[face_off]

I don't think you can edit the Octane material for an ORBX proxy in the plugin (this can only be done in the ORBX itself)

That's not true actually. I guess you've forgotten about this

You added a feature to the plugin a while ago (Mesh > "Add Material Pins" button).

That will add any "material in" nodes from the ORBX to the Modo mesh, allowing you to connect materials from Modo's schematic.

Yes - you are right!

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2019.1.4.155
- Added the Add Material Pins button to the Octane Mesh properties.  This adds any Material In pins from the ORBX file to the Proxy Mesh schematic node, so you can specify the Octane material in the Schematic.  This Mesh item must be on a Schematic Workspace, and that Workspace must be selected and visible.

Paul

[Hesekiel2517]

Sometimes i wonder, if my english is so bad that i don't get my point across

Yes, i used this feature and it works great for stills, but in my case i want to render an animation. So as soon as i hit render animation the material disappears.

[Hesekiel2517]

By the way the "Material In" Nodes always need to get the " " between Material and In removed, because the Plugin does not allow spaces in the Nodes name

[face_off]

Sometimes i wonder, if my english is so bad that i don't get my point across

Yes, i used this feature and it works great for stills, but in my case i want to render an animation. So as soon as i hit render animation the material disappears.

This sounds like a bug in the plugin. I will try to resolve it in the next release.

Paul