Confused on relation of Plugin v Standalone re materials

[Karba]

Karba, what is the reason behind not letting the user save an offline library with your browser? or will this change in the future?

This browser allow you just download materials from online DB and store it to your current scene. After that you can do with this materials what you want.

[buggy]

I'm sure you have a lot on your plate, but if Octane Max had a procedural materials generator like Darktree or Genetica then it would be truly incredible!

I haven't tried the convert V-Ray materials (I don't have V-Ray), but if there were a way to tap into large existing material libraries such as the Mental Ray library link that was posted earlier on this thread, then we would really be able to ramp up our productivity.

Thank you for all you do!

[gbambo]

I agree wholeheartedly. Nothing would ramp up the average user's productivity as much as the ability to repurpose existing material repositories. I would love to be able to master the full depth of the art of material design, but I work in production environment where the visualizations I produce are not an end in themselves. I am limited not by what is possible, but by what is efficient.

I appreciate immensely that Octane is able to convert so many other types of materials. That is a huge step in the right direction.

However, I am in the midst of a large existing project. And when I hit "Convert", 3ds max crashes with no indication of what went wrong. I am apparently going to have to reassign all materials in my scene and replace them with Octane natives, because of this. This is a very problematic. Anyone have any advice?

[Karba]

I agree wholeheartedly. Nothing would ramp up the average user's productivity as much as the ability to repurpose existing material repositories. I would love to be able to master the full depth of the art of material design, but I work in production environment where the visualizations I produce are not an end in themselves. I am limited not by what is possible, but by what is efficient.

I appreciate immensely that Octane is able to convert so many other types of materials. That is a huge step in the right direction.

However, I am in the midst of a large existing project. And when I hit "Convert", 3ds max crashes with no indication of what went wrong. I am apparently going to have to reassign all materials in my scene and replace them with Octane natives, because of this. This is a very problematic. Anyone have any advice?

Can I have your scene?
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[Karba]

2gbambo

I have got your scene.
What render did you use before?
So many different material types. I even have not seen such before.

[gbambo]

I was using the MetalRay built-in renderer. Mainly Arch + Design materials. But others were imported when I imported models from third parties as furniture. Some of the models came from SketchUp. Some were from a Revit repository. Any ideas on how to proceed from here. Starting over from scratch seems prohibitive.

[Karba]

I was using the MetalRay built-in renderer. Mainly Arch + Design materials. But others were imported when I imported models from third parties as furniture. Some of the models came from SketchUp. Some were from a Revit repository. Any ideas on how to proceed from here. Starting over from scratch seems prohibitive.

I see.
I don't have any crashes with your scene. I will continue to study it.

[gbambo]

So when you view it from within the OctaneRender Viewport do you see most things rendered in white? That is what I see. So then I click on Convert in OctaneRender Settings tab of Render Setup window to convert existing materials to Octane materials so things render properly, but that is when it crashes. Thank you for your assistance.

[mbetke]

Well I can still save to a 3dsmax material library so its not a big deal. Would just be nice to havbe it all on one place.

[gbambo]

So does Octane support conversion of all materials in the 3ds Max "Arch + Design" library or only some? Knowing this would help me going forward. Thanks everyone for all the assistance.