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Material preview doesn't work
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 7:05 pm
by alexmunteanu
Hi,
it seems I have a problem with viewing my octane materials.
They all look like a 100% transparent material with an ior of 1.
Does anyone know anything about this? Is it my video driver or something like that?
Thanks,
Alex
Re: Material preview doesn't work
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 7:45 pm
by aoktar
Live viewer is open? Sometimes need to send the scene to the Live viewer
Re: Material preview doesn't work
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 8:07 pm
by alexmunteanu
Yes. With the live view open all the materials are shown correctly.
Thank you!

Will this be fixed in future releases?
Re: Material preview doesn't work
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 8:11 pm
by aoktar
alexmunteanu wrote:Yes. With the live view open all the materials are shown correctly.
Thank you!

Will this be fixed in future releases?

yes, sure. Next Octane releases will allow more improvements
Re: Material preview doesn't work
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 8:22 pm
by alexmunteanu
Cool! Thanks again!
P.S.: I waited for this plugin for a long time...so a huge THANK YOU goes to you!

Re: Material preview doesn't work
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 10:21 pm
by aoktar
alexmunteanu wrote:Cool! Thanks again!
P.S.: I waited for this plugin for a long time...so a huge THANK YOU goes to you!

me too, enjoy it:)
Re: Material preview doesn't work
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 12:52 pm
by alexmunteanu
Hi!
I just found the same problem with the materials but now on a quadro fx 5800 and this time I can't get it to work.
The materials are shown as a white plane even if I have the Live Viewer open...
Re: Material preview doesn't work
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 12:53 pm
by alexmunteanu
And PMC doesn't work... "OCTANE API ERROR: PMC kerner: Unsupported compute model (13)"
Re: Material preview doesn't work
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 12:54 pm
by alexmunteanu
*kernel...
Re: Material preview doesn't work
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 4:30 pm
by aoktar
alexmunteanu wrote:Hi!
I just found the same problem with the materials but now on a quadro fx 5800 and this time I can't get it to work.
The materials are shown as a white plane even if I have the Live Viewer open...
we may inform the octane team