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Hey!

I've had this problem since yesterday, where I can't use the metaball and get it to show up in either the liveviewer or render. I've attached a screenshot of the file.

What I've tried:

• Turn on/off "render perfect" on the spheres
• Turn down the subdivisions on the metaball object
• Put a octane object tag on the metaball object and the child objects.
• Turned on check geometries in octane.

Suggestions?

Edit: forgot to post the screenshot. Duh! https://www.dropbox.com/s/mlc6tovm6o6gc ... 7.png?dl=0

I think you need to make the balls editable.

Gumz wrote:I think you need to make the balls editable.

Tried to make the spheres editable, but nothing changes in the render :/

How couldn't get? It's working natively

I should probably mention that there's a displacement on the sphere-material as well. Could this cause any problems?

catoskogvoll wrote:I should probably mention that there's a displacement on the sphere-material as well. Could this cause any problems?

No, why don't you try different setups of metaballs?

Feel like I've tried everything at this point. You mind checking the project file?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vs4c7ads69110 ... s.rar?dl=0

Metaball doesn't work if displacement is active as I see from your scene

enigmasi wrote:Metaball doesn't work if displacement is active as I see from your scene

From what I understood from aoktar, that shouldn't be a problem :/

aoktar wrote:

catoskogvoll wrote:I should probably mention that there's a displacement on the sphere-material as well. Could this cause any problems?

No, why don't you try different setups of metaballs?

That is not the problem. The metaball doesn't has UVs so trying to use a material with "UVW Mapping" as projection won't work.
Using displacement on an object without UVs with "UVW Mapping" will result in the object not showing.
Try other method that works for your surface (spherical, cylindrical, planar...)