Is my mouse supported

[chrispoole]

Hi,

Complete novice here (with Octane at least).

I'm having problems picking material zones on my objects with the colour picker to change the materials properties.

I'm viewing the video 'Octane Interface' and following that, but Octane sees/changes everything as one material on imported obj's or not at all.

The default object that appears if you just place a diffuse node etc., will only allow me to work on the outer part of the sphere (the default material no doubt) and the BG is un-selectable as well.

Is my mouse supported.

Cheers
Chris


Octane version = 1.0 beta 2.1
Video Drivers = devdriver_3.0_winxp_64_197.13_general

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Samsung SATA HD103SI, 1TB
Seagate SATA ST3500418AS, 500GB
Optiarc SATA DVD writer
Microsoft USB Mouse and KB

[radiance]

Hi,

Complete novice here (with Octane at least).

I'm having problems picking material zones on my objects with the colour picker to change the materials properties.

I'm viewing the video 'Octane Interface' and following that, but Octane sees/changes everything as one material on imported obj's or not at all.

The default object that appears if you just place a diffuse node etc., will only allow me to work on the outer part of the sphere (the default material no doubt) and the BG is un-selectable as well.

Is my mouse supported.

Cheers
Chris


Octane version = 1.0 beta 2.1
Video Drivers = devdriver_3.0_winxp_64_197.13_general

Workstation Specialists Machine
Windows XPx64 SP2
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD
Intel i7 950 3GHz OC to 4GHz
NVidia Quadro FX 1800, 786 MB
12GB Corsair DDR3
Samsung SATA HD103SI, 1TB
Seagate SATA ST3500418AS, 500GB
Optiarc SATA DVD writer
Microsoft USB Mouse and KB

Hi,

can you give us some more information, the 3d host app, and a screenshot of sorts ?

Radiance

[chrispoole]

Hi,

Complete novice here (with Octane at least).

I'm having problems picking material zones on my objects with the colour picker to change the materials properties.

I'm viewing the video 'Octane Interface' and following that, but Octane sees/changes everything as one material on imported obj's or not at all.

The default object that appears if you just place a diffuse node etc., will only allow me to work on the outer part of the sphere (the default material no doubt) and the BG is un-selectable as well.

Is my mouse supported.

Cheers
Chris


Octane version = 1.0 beta 2.1
Video Drivers = devdriver_3.0_winxp_64_197.13_general

Workstation Specialists Machine
Windows XPx64 SP2
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD
Intel i7 950 3GHz OC to 4GHz
NVidia Quadro FX 1800, 786 MB
12GB Corsair DDR3
Samsung SATA HD103SI, 1TB
Seagate SATA ST3500418AS, 500GB
Optiarc SATA DVD writer
Microsoft USB Mouse and KB

Hi,

can you give us some more information, the 3d host app, and a screenshot of sorts ?

Radiance

Hi Radiance,

Thanks for the quick reply.

The first scene (pic 1) is the default material and lighting scene

1. I select the colour pick
2. I select this surface or not and change from default colour
3. I select this surface (nothing changes in the colour pallette)
4. the colour selector doesn't change

This fruit bowl scene is from 3dR3nder.com lighting callenge here, http://www.3drender.com/challenges/fruitbowl/index.htm

As you can see, it's been rendered in just about every 3D software known to man, so I know the object has material zones and is importable to various packages.

Pic 2
I load a mesh and without selecting anything I change the colour to an orange colour, it alters the overall colour of the lighting, I suppose that's the way the software works.


Pic 3
I select the pear with the colour picker (No. 1 of pic 1) change its colour and it just alters the lighting colour, like the mouse isn't being recognised.


Hope this is clear
Chris

[Trias]

Actually, it seems that your whole scene uses only one single material - the light color stays the same.
In my experience - using Rhinoceros, though - this can happen when names are truncated. E.g. if you have "Basic Material 01" and "Basic Material 02" every object in the scene will have the first material with the name "Basic".

[YoonKyung]

If there is a function separating and merging mesh objects in Octane, it would be very nice, I think.

[radiance]

Hi,

You need to see if there is an MTL file exported together with the OBJ file.
this file contains the different materials.

It's likely an export problem.
please post a shot of your export panel configuration in your host app...

Radiance

[chrispoole]

Actually, it seems that your whole scene uses only one single material - the light color stays the same.
In my experience - using Rhinoceros, though - this can happen when names are truncated. E.g. if you have "Basic Material 01" and "Basic Material 02" every object in the scene will have the first material with the name "Basic".

Hi Trias,

I know the truncation problem and that would be a problem, but that does'nt explain the object in pic 1 that comes with Octane and why I can't select the different material zones on that.

And I find it hard to believe MAX, MAYA, Lightwave, C4D etc. etc. all recognise the mat zones and not Octane.

Thanks for you help
Chris

[chrispoole]

Hi,

You need to see if there is an MTL file exported together with the OBJ file.
this file contains the different materials.

It's likely an export problem.
please post a shot of your export panel configuration in your host app...

Radiance

Hi,

Yes there is a MTL file with the OBJ, but this is only one of many objects I've tried and like I said to Trias, it doesn't explain why the object in pic 1 that Octane defaults too has the same problem.

I didn't create the bowl of fruit, it's put on the web by the hosts of CG Society as a bit of fun trying to light a scene.

Edit: look here to see what I mean
http://www.3drender.com/challenges/

Many thanks
Chris

[radiance]

Hi,

You need to see if there is an MTL file exported together with the OBJ file.
this file contains the different materials.

It's likely an export problem.
please post a shot of your export panel configuration in your host app...

Radiance

Hi,

Yes there is a MTL file with the OBJ, but this is only one of many objects I've tried and like I said to Trias, it doesn't explain why the object in pic 1 that Octane defaults too has the same problem.

I didn't create the bowl of fruit, it's put on the web by the hosts of CG Society as a bit of fun trying to light a scene.

Many thanks
Chris

there must be a problem then, octane will read the MTL file and create separate materials.
can you post the OBJ+MTL file zipped here, so i can have a look ?

Radiance

[chrispoole]

Hi,

You need to see if there is an MTL file exported together with the OBJ file.
this file contains the different materials.

It's likely an export problem.
please post a shot of your export panel configuration in your host app...

Radiance

Hi,

Yes there is a MTL file with the OBJ, but this is only one of many objects I've tried and like I said to Trias, it doesn't explain why the object in pic 1 that Octane defaults too has the same problem.

I didn't create the bowl of fruit, it's put on the web by the hosts of CG Society as a bit of fun trying to light a scene.

Many thanks
Chris

there must be a problem then, octane will read the MTL file and create separate materials.
can you post the OBJ+MTL file zipped here, so i can have a look ?

Radiance

We cross posted

Download from here
http://www.3drender.com/challenges/

Many thanks
Chris