Just a few small suggestions
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 11:35 pm
This is the first time I've worked with Octane Standalone. I was basically importing some orbx files from another application and when you got to save once you've got it loaded --there's no way to set the save behavior to default to the localdb instead of an orbx file. It's really tedious to have to continually click to switch it when you prefer using the localdb.
I also would like to point out that you have to re-browse to the folder each and every time you are saving an imported material to your localdb. This behavior also exhibits itself when you click back and forth between the Data I/O tab, LiveDB and LocalDB tabs. It would be very helpful if Octane Standalone remembered it's place...
This last suggestion is a little more complicated. I'm spending some time setting up my LocalDB, and I have a lot of figures to convert. Each figure has 17 materials --coming over from DAZ Studio. I spent a lot of time getting the shaders the way I wanted them in DAZ, so when it comes to exporting them --that went pretty easily. the problem comes with getting the orbx files into my new localdb. I think it would be nice to be able to right click on the category I've created, select the multiple orbx files that go in that location and import them all at one time instead of having to open them and then save them to the localDB.
I also would like to point out that you have to re-browse to the folder each and every time you are saving an imported material to your localdb. This behavior also exhibits itself when you click back and forth between the Data I/O tab, LiveDB and LocalDB tabs. It would be very helpful if Octane Standalone remembered it's place...
This last suggestion is a little more complicated. I'm spending some time setting up my LocalDB, and I have a lot of figures to convert. Each figure has 17 materials --coming over from DAZ Studio. I spent a lot of time getting the shaders the way I wanted them in DAZ, so when it comes to exporting them --that went pretty easily. the problem comes with getting the orbx files into my new localdb. I think it would be nice to be able to right click on the category I've created, select the multiple orbx files that go in that location and import them all at one time instead of having to open them and then save them to the localDB.