Member tcoursey Posted February 16, 2017 Member Share Posted February 16, 2017 Trying to evaluate the 3DC situation as it relates to Octane Render Engine and it's workflow. Can't use the DEMO for this process as there are no exports allowed, even with watermarks etc. Pretty limiting for evaluating workflow situations like this. I see a video where 3DC was exported to Poser and used Octane but the work arounds even in 4.7 don't look like what they should in Octane. Could have been that user, no way to test myself. Anyone else using 3DC Painting to then be used in Octane Render successfully and accurately? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 To ask for trial time extension, please send related question to Andrew Shpagin at support@3dcoat.com Ty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member tcoursey Posted February 16, 2017 Author Member Share Posted February 16, 2017 1 hour ago, Carlosan said: To ask for trial time extension, please send related question to Andrew Shpagin at support@3dcoat.com Ty Well it's not so much trial time, I just got it the other day. It's more the abilities or lack there of (the limitations) There are no exports which I understand why...but without them you have nothing to check workflows etc with. The capabilities of 3DC by itself seem very good and solid. But for it to seamlessly interchange with another app is not able to be tested with a trial in it's current state. So I'm left with my question to other users if 3DC can interchange without work arounds with Octane in 4.7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Tony Nemo Posted February 16, 2017 Contributor Share Posted February 16, 2017 My models are made in 3D-Coat and exported to C4D w/Octane using the Octane preset for exporting textures. In C4D, I set about creating Octane Materials using the texture files from 3DC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 You can test the latest release downloading it here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member tcoursey Posted February 17, 2017 Author Member Share Posted February 17, 2017 16 hours ago, Carlosan said: You can test the latest release downloading it here ok, maybe it's just me, am I doing something wrong...or are you not hearing me, that I'm on the DEMO. I downloaded the BETA above....of course I don't have a license so it goes to DEMO mode. The only option I get when I export a model is a YELLOW Export Object and Textures. There is no further dialog that gives me PRESETS for Octane or any other TEXTURE export. I've seen this dialog in many Videos I've tried to gather information from. Hopefully I'm doing something wrong....surly you didn't over look the fact that I'm on the demo and THAT SPECIFIC feature id DISABLED. (That is what this entire thread is about...the limiting factors of the demo for testing workflows) Hopefully it's just me not knowing what I'm doing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 It should work... let me ask the development team. ty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member tcoursey Posted February 17, 2017 Author Member Share Posted February 17, 2017 2 hours ago, Carlosan said: It should work... let me ask the development team. ty Thank you. Like I said maybe it's me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member tcoursey Posted February 17, 2017 Author Member Share Posted February 17, 2017 Ah it does work. I was not getting the dialog to come up with the presets export. I will now do some testing to see if I can get correct maps for Octane as I expect! Thanks for letting me know it "should" work, made me dig in some more.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member tcoursey Posted February 17, 2017 Author Member Share Posted February 17, 2017 (edited) It looks like the Octane export does not work as expected...but the Arnold has the correct maps for Octane to render same results inside Octane as seen in 3DC PBR engine. Getting happier.... I would suggest the Octane export be revised to be... Diffuse from DiffuseSpecular from Specular Color (no GGX)Roughness from RoughnessNormal from Tangent Space Normalmap From my initial testing.... Edited February 17, 2017 by tcoursey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Mr.Panka Posted February 17, 2017 Member Share Posted February 17, 2017 this export is weird. If you have some time, could you send an email to support@3d-coat.com ? Maybe something change in 3DC or in Octane and the exporter need to be updated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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