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Hi!

From the top of my head I thought about some of things that shouldn't be difficult to integrate yet add to its usability:

-Zoom on extents! Kind of annoying to have to scroll and move around to find that new imported OBJ :/
-When you jump from a node that has a part of its "tree" collapsed to another node and then jump back, the tree is extended again. Kind of annoying if you're already finished editing a series of materials and you have to scroll back again to find the next one you were gonna edit.
-Ability to merge imported objects on the same scene. Nothing fancy, just display both scenes simultaneously. Example: a generic scene to show of a car, and the ability to place a different car into it. Unlink first car, link the second, presto.
-Blurred refractions for a spec material
-Ability to pan around the graph editor, for increased real state
-Falloff map

Thanks for this fantastic SW

May I add some of my own?
-The ability to save your materials in a library so you can share materials between different scenes
-Viewport navigation customization. For example I'm used to have middle mouse button set as panning the viewport.
-A checkbox for on/off environment display in the viewport.
Hope I'm not asking too much. I'll come up with more...

elias76gr wrote:May I add some of my own?
-The ability to save your materials in a library so you can share materials between different scenes
-Viewport navigation customization. For example I'm used to have middle mouse button set as panning the viewport.
-A checkbox for on/off environment display in the viewport.
Hope I'm not asking too much. I'll come up with more...

My favorits at the moment:
-AA Texture filter on/off
-Texture repeat normal/mirror/edge/off

face

Saving camera views so I can recall them after some viewport navigation

I think the material interface needs a re-design. That's the only problem I'm having with Octane now. When several materials are broken open in the list, it all looks the same and very messy. It took me a minute to find the bump channel once, and it was right there in front of me the whole time. Maybe some color variance or something obvious to break up the list between materials. The list is hard to read now.

Does this make sense to anyone else? Do you feel its hard to read and find things quickly?

adrencg wrote:I think the material interface needs a re-design. That's the only problem I'm having with Octane now. When several materials are broken open in the list, it all looks the same and very messy. It took me a minute to find the bump channel once, and it was right there in front of me the whole time. Maybe some color variance or something obvious to break up the list between materials. The list is hard to read now.

Does this make sense to anyone else? Do you feel its hard to read and find things quickly?

Yep! Kind of hard to find things, I guess they haven't concentrated much on the GUI. Everything is kind of "flat" and there's no clear differentiation in the trees.

Also, another user had suggested exporting the alpha map, and I think it'd be nice to also be able to export the Z-depth for post-proc

geort45 wrote:

adrencg wrote:I think the material interface needs a re-design. That's the only problem I'm having with Octane now. When several materials are broken open in the list, it all looks the same and very messy. It took me a minute to find the bump channel once, and it was right there in front of me the whole time. Maybe some color variance or something obvious to break up the list between materials. The list is hard to read now.

Does this make sense to anyone else? Do you feel its hard to read and find things quickly?

Yep! Kind of hard to find things, I guess they haven't concentrated much on the GUI. Everything is kind of "flat" and there's no clear differentiation in the trees.

-- and one thing that compounds the problem is how sometimes the list will fly to a new focus, and the thing you were working on is now somewhere else on the page, and you have to track it down.

adrencg wrote:Do you feel its hard to read and find things quickly?

I agree, this area could use some attention.

Maybe a bigger space or a break with the background between nodes.

Inside a node, maybe some king of 'nesting' or space breaks could help , separated in groups;

-Basic controls -> (Diffuse, specular,, roughness etc..)
-Bump -> (Bump, Normal, eventually displacement, etc)
-Extras -> (Filmindex, filmwidth etc)

Maybe only the Basic controls could be unfolded at first.

Just throwing ideas...

Marc