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I was wondering what the best workflow for materials and textures is in Octane. Since I cannot apply the material directly in Max or any other software, whats the easiest way to do it?

Lets say i want to apply a woodfloor material in Octane. First thing I have to do, is to apply a uvmap in Max and size it so that the texture I want to use fits on the floor.

Than I export it as OBJ.

Than in Octane I apply a material to the floor and use the same texture as in Max for the diffuse channel. Than I set all the other parameters.

How can I save this material then?

Can I reuse this material then on other objects, so that the scaling of the texture fits?

Is there any workflow that I can use similar to the real world units ( or whatever it is called in Max) here in Octane?

Sorry for these Questions, but I did not find an answer to this in the manual or here.

Thanks

You can't apply materials in Max but you can prepare them.
You have equivalence btwn Max mat and Octane Mat.
Max shader with specular level = 0 is a Octane diffuse material
Max shader with specular level > 0 and IOR =1.0 is an Octane glossy material.
Max shader with specular level > 0 and IOR =1.5 is an Octane specular material.

In Max you can assign textures for :
_Diffuse color = diffuse in diffuse and glossy materials.
_Specular color = specular in glossy material.
_Bump = Bump

You have to unwrap your objets in Max before export them to Octane.
If your objets have no UV, you can use procedurals textures in Octane; their coordinates are world dependent.

To learn materials basis you can watch this video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVD7PsP ... ideo_title

To learn how to edit, save and load materials you can watch this video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpnF-UDc ... ideo_title

Have fun with Octane