Texture counter for unique textures in octane

[mbetke]

I have a very small request which would be a handy addition.

As we know we only can run a certain number of unique textures in a scene. As scenes get more complex its easy to loose overview and suddenly you run into the situation of the error message.

I would recommend to put a small texture counter into Octane somewhere which shows me X / 64 textures. I had the situation of the limit for some scenes now and this one would help me a lot.

[teecee2107]

I agree with mbetke, but it would be interesting to have different counters for the different types of textures (64 RGB 24bit ldr textures, 32 greyscale ldr textures, ...).

[mbetke]

yes this would be the optimum but i didnt want to bug the des too much with my request.

[matej]

Having such counter would be nice.

I run now into this problem for the first time now and I see that the number of allowed grayscale textures is only half of RGB ones. The "funny" thing here is that grayscale textures are much more useful and used than RGB. I always try to use a RGB color node in Octane which I multiply with a grayscale tex. and so I can easily control the color of the material, instead of having it "hardcoded" into a RGB texture. The limit of 32 grayscale tex is kinda low...

A RGB to grayscale node would help here.