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2013-01-07 02:53 AM - last edited on 2023-05-11 12:06 PM by Noemi Balogh
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2013-01-13 10:34 AM
does the archicad SDK allow you to add all of the Octane materials attributes in the ArchiCAD materials settings so that OpenGL preview can more closely match the Octane render?The Octane material definitions are being stored against each of their counterpart ArchiCAD materials (as parameters) - so they get saved with the scene. However it's not really applicable to copy any of the Octane material attributes back to the OpenGL preview material definitions.
2013-01-13 07:36 PM
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( 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.
2013-01-16 01:50 AM
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.
2013-01-16 03:12 AM
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)-saverThanks for the clarification.