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Why does Octane generate unused materials?
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 3:28 pm
by mitchino
I have a scene with a whole load of materials many of which aren't applied to any objects in the scene. When I start the live viewer, Octane generates these materials, and also converts other materials from Arnold etc before it displays a preview. It can take quite a bit of time. I know I can clean these unused materials from my scene, but some of them will be used later on.
Is this normal behaviour? Seems pointless.
Re: Why does Octane generate unused materials?
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 5:00 pm
by aoktar
Yes it will keep all materials for special reasons. It's different than others for design purposes for live mode.
Re: Why does Octane generate unused materials?
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 6:53 pm
by augdalmo
Hi Aoktar,
A scene may be several setup of objects and material for various reason. Why they must be loaded all materials if then they will not used all for the render? When I need to Edit in Standalone the plugin export ALL materials. This is time consuming expecially when I une very large image textures, I then must delete they manually. Could you add a command that can exclude unuseded materials? It will be appreciated.
Many thanks.
Manu
Re: Why does Octane generate unused materials?
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 7:53 pm
by aoktar
I think that my explanations is not making much sense. It's not a matter of adding one command. It's not so simple as you thought. I did this in past and caused a lot of problems to me. And i cancelled, it's just available for Picture Viewer. Things are much more complicated for Live mode.