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According to the manual I need to group my material, right click and under the save options select "Live DB". The problem is, I do not see any option for saving to Live DB, only the Local DB and .orbx package.

I'm internet connected and I can download files from the Live DB, so it's not a connection issue. I'm on v2.03

Thanks!

Sorry to bump this guys. Am i just doing this wrong or is it a feature that's currently broken in 2.03? Seems like it should be straight forward but I can't figure it out. Thx.

tap tap tap. can somebody from octane chime in on this?

Hi, sorry for the late response.

Your group needs a material output.
Once you have grouped the material, double click to go into the group.
Add a material output pin and connect your material to this. When you go back to the main scene graph, you should see that your group now has a material output that can be used.
Right click the group now, and you should be able to save it to the live DB.

Awesome. Thanks so much. Sorry for nagging so much to get it answered but it seemed like a pretty straight forward question. Thanks again!!

itsallgoode9 wrote:Awesome. Thanks so much. Sorry for nagging so much to get it answered but it seemed like a pretty straight forward question. Thanks again!!

Thats fine, usually i would have answered something like this by now but i must have missed it...

so, i have one last hurdle. I finally was able to get the live DB export option, although when I try to actually export, it just says "failed to store package to liveDB" any clue what that's about?

How many MB do you think the combined size of the textures/maps etc used is?

235 mb. 1 color, 2 bump, 1 mask texture and 1 displacement

This will be a the problem. The liveDB currently won't take a material that big. The limit is roughly 15MB. Hopefully in future we can expand the liveDB's capability but for now, you will not be able to submit this material as it is.