Octane does not save materials anymore

[matej]

There were / are some problems of lost material settings on re-export if you just set the parameters in Node inspector. Instead, create material nodes in Node graph, assign them to respective materials on the mesh and tweak those settings. Those should be remembered on re-export.

[Alain]

I still have that problem of loosing texturefiles when re-export a scene from Blender in Octane 2.44.

Does anyone have a solution for that problem ?

Kind regards
Alain

[abstrax]

I still have that problem of loosing texturefiles when re-export a scene from Blender in Octane 2.44.

Does anyone have a solution for that problem ?

Kind regards
Alain

Hi Alain,

Please don't use spaces in texture file names or their directories. The OBJ import we currently use doesn't support this at the moment. If that's not the problem, could you please send us an example so that we can track down the problem?

Thanks,
Marcus

[Alain]

Thanks for your quick answer abstrax.

I will check if I have texturefiles with spaces.

Kind regards
Alain

[abstrax]

Thanks for your quick answer abstrax.

I will check if I have texturefiles with spaces.

Kind regards
Alain

It could be also this problem: http://refractivesoftware.com/forum/vie ... =33&t=5755

Cheers,
Marcus

[Alain]

Have no texturefiles with spaces.

But I have some materials called somthing like that in Blender: L-XR$6$STANDARD

Could this be the problem ?

Kind regards
Alain

[abstrax]

Have no texturefiles with spaces.

But I have some materials called somthing like that in Blender: L-XR$6$STANDARD

Could this be the problem ?

Kind regards
Alain

Hmm, not really. -> Maybe you could send us a (simple) scene that shows the problem.

Thanks,
Marcus

[Alain]

Well I guess the problem is because the scene is not simple

I can try it, but I guess I cannot reproduce the error with a simple scene.

Kind regards
Alain

[Alain]

Ok, I was able to reproduce it, this is what I did:

I put a mesh of a tree into a new blender scene.
All texturepathes are relative.
I use the Octane Exporter Version 2.2.
I set a Octance projectpath and a Octane projectname.
"Export Camera" is enabled.
I enable "Copy Images" in the "Advanced" Panel.
I hit "render".
In Octane the hole mesh is white (no textures linked, but they should be linked because in Blendermaterials they are set).
I have to choose the Texturefiles for every material again :-/
I play around abit with the cameraposition.
I save the Octanefile.
I go back to Blender.
I add a new mesh and a new material with a texture linked to it.
I disable "Export Camera".
I hit "render" again.
Now in Octane one material which I have set before in Octane has lost its texture. The others are still ok. And the new material I have to set like I did the others before.

I've added all files in the zip.

Sorry for so many ego-"I's"


Does anybody have an idea what's going wrong ?


Kind regards
Alain

[dave62]

maybe just switch to blender 2.5 and use yoyoz unofficial exporter. + since i switched from 2.3v5 to octane2.44 all those similar problems were gone (not shure what you are using atm. "...just updated to Beta 2.3v5?")