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As long as the material nodegraph issue is solved in the next release, they can call it anything they want.

i am new to this, and still going thru all posts (at least trying to..) regarding suggested improvements to octane..
since now beta 2.3 will be v1.0 final- i hope we get alpha channels, and shadows thru opacity maps- (as these are very much required for the work we do here)..i am sure these have been requested earlier- and i might be repeating it; but i think its worth repeating

Due to our relocations and the current activities in hiring/training new people,
We will provide an updated development roadmap in an few days.

We will release an update soon, I am hoping by the end of next week,
With only bug fixes and a few mirror improvements.
I think the first goal is to make sure the material relinking bugs are fixed and all exporters work properly.

Radiance

That's good news.
The fix of material relinking issues will make life easyer
Is it sorted by material's name?

F

tchoa wrote:That's good news.
The fix of material relinking issues will make life easyer
Is it sorted by material's name?

F

Yes, relinking happens via the material name, but it's not sorted. The order is the order of the .MTL file.

Cheers,
Marcus

I would have said relinked by material's name.
I posted some thoughts about that and other things a few months ago...
Anyway, maya users would rename the shadingEngines (that are collecting the meshes and faces with material assigned) to have a well named material in octane. I can give some very simple code to auto-rename those nodes before export.

Cheers
F

tchoa wrote:
I would have said relinked by material's name.
I posted some thoughts about that and other things a few months ago...

Could you please dig out the post for me again? I can't find it and I started to bookmark/collect all suggestions made on the forum to get an idea what users want.

Thanks,
Marcus

Yes, it was my first post : http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... f=9&t=2787
Some of my questions/suggestions found answers in other posts (like the last point) but this post hasn't been answered as you'll see.
Thanks abstrax!
F

Hi.

Will the bugfixes include the one about saving images in .ocm?

create material macro with image texture -> save it in .ocm -> close the scene -> re-open the scene, import the .ocm, save the scene -> next time you open the scene an error about not being able to load the image will popup = the scene gets corrupted and it won't load anymore.

tchoa wrote:Yes, it was my first post : http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... f=9&t=2787
Some of my questions/suggestions found answers in other posts (like the last point) but this post hasn't been answered as you'll see.
Thanks abstrax!
F

Thank you