paulk wrote:
( I'm however wondering about to handle materials that are not necessarly selectable from the exterior ( i.e an interior curtain ( it could be possible to do it by doing a select marquee region though )
I expect the workflow to change from the video that I posted regarding material selection. To cope with selecting a material that you cannot click (in interior material for example), it may work better to simply have a material selection popup on the Material tab of the plugin. If may also be possible to edit materials in the ArchiCAD "Material Settings" window, although it is a modal window which creates a lot of problems.
Are you by the way supporting the marquee selection tool ?
At the moment, if more than one element is selected, the material window does not populate. But I am changing this to display all materials from all selected elements.
RE: the marquee tool
I think he means in reference to what the Render engine (real time or actual render) actually processes and renders.
As in, does it respect the geometrical boundaries as defined by the marquee tool and shown in the 3D window.
This is very critical to ArchiCAD users who use the Marquee tool a lot and for whom it's a great time-saver (and one would imagine an even bigger time and resources (read: CPU/GPU, Memory)-saver :- especially when working with Real time/Progressive render engines like Maxwell's Fire)
And he's also referencing the Maxwell for ArchiCAD plugin which for the longest time would respect the MArquee tool boundary and then just when they release the latest version with the Fire capability (for real time preview of the 3D Window similar to what your plugin does), they broke the Marquee tool capability - which kinda makes it useless for us and even defeats the whole purpose since even actual renders export the entire scene as opposed to just whats defined by the Marquee.
The hope is that they'll get this sorted sooner rather than later and hopefully Octane won't suffer the same crippling debilitation.
