Octane exporter for C4D version 0.04
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 12:27 pm
Hi all,
as promised here is version 0.04 of the Octane exporter for CINEMA 4D. Polygon selections are now considered during export and the objects get split accordingly. I have also fixed a few bugs and tried to improve the export of the specular channel, which was way too strong in Octane. I haven't touched the export of the reflection channel though.
The plugin still only supports UVW texture mapping, but I have added a framework to easily add other texture mappings and converting them on-the-fly to UVWs. A first sign of that new stuff is the application of texture scale and offset of the texture tags to the UVW coordinates, i.e. texture scale and offset are now exported by modifying the UVW coordinates.
One other thing: As described in the last release, material names are extremely important if you are using the relink mechanism of Octane. It's essential to have unique material names. Until now, the plugin only added a "_<number>" to every duplicate of the material name in the exported material library (MTL). This is fine as long as you don't insert another material with the same name, which would then change all materials that come after the new material. To reduce that problem, the plugin now renames materials in the C4D scene to unique names, if they are not unique. This way only one material might be affected and not a long list, if you insert a new one with the same name. I'm still trying to find a persistent unique identifier that can be used to identify a material even after reloading the scene.
These are the PC builds of the plugin:
CINEMA 4D R9.6 (32/64bit): CINEMA 4D R10.1 - 11.0 (32/64bit): CINEMA 4D R11.5 (32/64bit): These are the Mac builds of the plugin:
CINEMA 4D R9.6 (32bit): CINEMA 4D R10.1 - 10.5 (32bit): CINEMA 4D R11.0 (32/64bit): CINEMA 4D R11.5 (32/64bit): Cheers and happy rendering,
Marcus
as promised here is version 0.04 of the Octane exporter for CINEMA 4D. Polygon selections are now considered during export and the objects get split accordingly. I have also fixed a few bugs and tried to improve the export of the specular channel, which was way too strong in Octane. I haven't touched the export of the reflection channel though.
The plugin still only supports UVW texture mapping, but I have added a framework to easily add other texture mappings and converting them on-the-fly to UVWs. A first sign of that new stuff is the application of texture scale and offset of the texture tags to the UVW coordinates, i.e. texture scale and offset are now exported by modifying the UVW coordinates.
One other thing: As described in the last release, material names are extremely important if you are using the relink mechanism of Octane. It's essential to have unique material names. Until now, the plugin only added a "_<number>" to every duplicate of the material name in the exported material library (MTL). This is fine as long as you don't insert another material with the same name, which would then change all materials that come after the new material. To reduce that problem, the plugin now renames materials in the C4D scene to unique names, if they are not unique. This way only one material might be affected and not a long list, if you insert a new one with the same name. I'm still trying to find a persistent unique identifier that can be used to identify a material even after reloading the scene.
These are the PC builds of the plugin:
CINEMA 4D R9.6 (32/64bit): CINEMA 4D R10.1 - 11.0 (32/64bit): CINEMA 4D R11.5 (32/64bit): These are the Mac builds of the plugin:
CINEMA 4D R9.6 (32bit): CINEMA 4D R10.1 - 10.5 (32bit): CINEMA 4D R11.0 (32/64bit): CINEMA 4D R11.5 (32/64bit): Cheers and happy rendering,
Marcus
