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Hi!
I have a problem with materials preview in Cinema 4D. If I create a material with bitmap texture, the texture doesn't show in the material thumbnail. The same happens when I convert standard material to Octane material.

Example below: here I've converted standard materials (on the right) to Octane materials (left). As you see, Octane materials don't have textures visible.
I must note that I didn't have this problem before. I cannot say for sure when this problem appeared. Probably, after a certain update.

I hope you're using or tried on latest builds.

ah, I've missed the latest update. Now the textures are visible.

P.S. It would be nice to have an auto updater in the plugin Because it updates so often that the chance to miss the update is very high.

Aleksei wrote:ah, I've missed the latest update. Now the textures are visible.

P.S. It would be nice to have an auto updater in the plugin Because the plugin is updates so often that the chance to miss the updates is very high.

I know. But this is not just my decision also Otoy should be agree.

speaking of material preview.
there's this material preview scene that one should put into the material preview folder.
been there, done that. but still i only see that standard-sphere as maerial preview. though the material preview scene is visible in the list of possible material preview scenes by right-clicking into the preview, it is not being activated.
there's no error nor an error-message whatsoever. it just does not use the scene. how come?

mesut wrote:speaking of material preview.
there's this material preview scene that one should put into the material preview folder.
been there, done that. but still i only see that standard-sphere as maerial preview. though the material preview scene is visible in the list of possible material preview scenes by right-clicking into the preview, it is not being activated.
there's no error nor an error-message whatsoever. it just does not use the scene. how come?

It's not valid for Octane. I mean the method. So it's not easy to do custom previews by me. It's impossible by user.

aoktar wrote:

mesut wrote:speaking of material preview.
there's this material preview scene that one should put into the material preview folder.
been there, done that. but still i only see that standard-sphere as maerial preview. though the material preview scene is visible in the list of possible material preview scenes by right-clicking into the preview, it is not being activated.
there's no error nor an error-message whatsoever. it just does not use the scene. how come?

It's not valid for Octane. I mean the method. So it's not easy to do custom previews by me. It's impossible by user.

oh i see.
so i misinterpreted that scene and it wasn't meant to be a material preview wihtin the material editor but it's just a scene for it's own and is meant to be loaded as a normal c4d-scene to test material and stuff...?
well, my fault. sorry for bothering.

mesut wrote: oh i see.
so i misinterpreted that scene and it wasn't meant to be a material preview wihtin the material editor but it's just a scene for it's own and is meant to be loaded as a normal c4d-scene to test material and stuff...?
well, my fault. sorry for bothering.

Let's clear that. Octane SDK has a materialpreview method. And that's consist of sphere preview. No custom scenes are accepted.
Only way to break this limitation to make an isolated scene graph on Octane side and use as preview scene.

i see. thx.

Aleksei wrote:ah, I've missed the latest update. Now the textures are visible.

P.S. It would be nice to have an auto updater in the plugin Because it updates so often that the chance to miss the update is very high.

I simply subscribed to the Releases forum, so I automatically get a mail when something is happening there.