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New tutorial about Macro Material.
How to connect material,textures and other nodes to Macro Material
How to connect Input Pins to edit macro Material without open it
How to save Macro Material



[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/20162195[/vimeo]

well done as usual
thanks gzavye
ciao beppe

u r great man, respect !

now u have more that one tutorials, i think its good idea to put them togeter on one place, looking video is much better then read manual !

Thx for your time and for contriubuting for octane render comunity !

@necko : Videos are available in Vimeo Octane group http://www.vimeo.com/album/1546091/format:video
And my Octane render playlist on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... D11FA05AEB
If people think that videos are Usefull, Refractive Team may add them to video page http://www.refractivesoftware.com/videos.html

Thank you gzavye ! Well, it is more understandable than the video I had previously seen.

I have to practice now.

However, I come back to my question : is it possible to create/save a macro directly from a material created in the nodes inspector, or is it necessary to rebuild it from scratch in the node graph ?

or is it necessary to rebuild it from scratch in the node graph ?

That's the problem
No copyPaste to transfer existing network material into a macro.
You have to create your Macro first then open it to work.

OK! Thank you !

Does anybody have any plans—either end-users and hobbyists, or the staff-members at OctaneRender…
—to create a fully detailed explanatory tutorial on the Octane-Render Node-Interface—WITH AUDIO ?

There needs to be a (preferably a SERIES of) tutorials, modular, step-by-step tutorials to bring new users into the nodal environment, and help them UNDERSTAND it.
---not just the few breezy show-and-tell—(minus the "tell" audio! ;o/ for (relatively) "power-users"—that skips over helping somebody who does not already KNOW the interface, LEARN the interface...
There is ONE tutorial video on the Octane site that seems to have some detail and has audio....in ITALIAN... (nothing against Italians!, just that I don't understand that language!
(side note: How about creating some tutorial step-wise instructional videos, with multiple-language narration on several audio-tracks? Easily "do-able" in QuickTime .MOV files)

The few more currently posted, reasonably lengthy, more tutorial-style videos giving some detail on drag-and-drop modules being "bread-boarded" together with virtual
spaghetti-wiring, and with a panel of sliders for each (selected?) node just don't "do it" for me, (and I suspect for a lot of new users either! ;-//
The lack of AUDIO kills the effectiveness of the presentation! In a complex unfamiliar environment, "just pointing at something"
does not do any sort of adequate job of EXPLAINING it...

...Please Explain!

I totally agree with you : there is not enough tutorials about Octane.
That's why I do my best to help users...

I am sorry to hear that you don't understand silence
I could make videos with french commentaries; but if you don't understand italian I think you won't understand french neither...
If you have problems with my videos just ignore them; it's more respectful.

"La politesse est la grâce de l'esprit."
Henri Bergson

gzavye wrote:I totally agree with you : there is not enough tutorials about Octane.
That's why I do my best to help users...

I am sorry to hear that you don't understand silence
I could make videos with french commentaries; but if you don't understand italian I think you won't understand french neither...
If you have problems with my videos just ignore them; it's more respectful.

"La politesse est la grâce de l'esprit."
Henri Bergson

Réponse adéquate et joliment tournée, gzavye !

Thanks for your good tutorials and for the time you spend on helping the octane community.
Please go on, they are helpful (at least for me ... )