A helper addon for Octane Blender edition
This is a fork from the original Blender helper addon to add support for Blender 3.0 and latest Octane Blender features in the original developers absence.
Tested, working on 2021.1.1 - 25.0 Blender 3.0 build.
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Go to Releases
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Download the newest Octane_Helper.zip
Right-Click Menu
- Make sure the Octane render is enabled, otherwise the menu will not show up
- It works in object mode, edit mode and nodes editor, but provides different functions
Megascans Livelink Module
- Make sure the Octane render is enabled, otherwise it declines to import the asset
- It starts automatically when you open the Octane Blender
- There is no UI button to activate it
- Make sure you do not have the Official Livelink Addon installed. Otherwise, this module will keep silent with imports
- The imported surface material can be found in Material Slots to be assigned manually
- You can also use Right-Click menu > Materials > Paste to paste the surface material
Minimum textures to get a correct response for Megascans Livelink
Supported Textures for Megascans Livelink
| Textures | Info |
|---|---|
| Albedo | Added by default (If exists) |
| Displacement | Added by default (If exists) |
| Normal | Added by default (If exists) |
| Roughness | Added by default (If exists) |
| Specular | Added by default (If exists) |
| Opacity | Added by default (If exists) |
| Translucency | Added by default (If exists) |
| Metalness | Added by default (If exists) |
| AO | Added by default (If exists) |
| Bump | Optional (Toggle in preferences) |
| Fuzz | Optional (Toggle in preferences) |
| Cavity | Optional (Toggle in preferences) |
| Curvature | Optional (Toggle in preferences) |
- Preferences > Add-ons > Install
- Select Octane_Helper.zip to install
- Please do not install the zip from the downloaded repository named OC-Blender-Helper-Addon-master.zip
- Activate it
- If you have installed the addon, please restart your Blender
- When should I use Update display settings under Environment menu?
- In any new project, you should click that button once to update current display settings because by default Octane Blender has a wrong setup for display device
- Cannot insert keyframes from UI panels
- We cannot insert keyframes and click file selector eyedropper from panels yet because of a known bug in Blender build, which will be fixed in future builds
- Megascans Livelink module does not respond to imports
- Check the log to see the error
- Some assets' meshes cannot be imported due to issues with built-in fbx/obj importer, which will be fixed in the future
- Starting from 2020, when you first time launch the Bridge App and click the "Download Plugin", it automatically puts an addon that occupies the port at startup into C:\Users\[Your username]\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.8[X]\scripts\startup. It's called "MSPlugin", please remove the folder and restart the Blender
- There is no switch button for the official quixel addon, so if you want to use the addon for cycles/eevee again, just simply reinstall the offical addon then the octane megascans module will keep silent
- Wrong nodes setup with any material created from Right-Click Menu or Megascans module
- For example, duplicated shader nodes without output node
- Starting from Blender_Octane_Edition_2020.1.3_21.9_stable, there is a small difference when setting up materials. If you have to use previous versions, please use addons before 2.7.4
- Other issues
- Please check the log from Blender > Top Bar > Window > Toggle System Console and let me know what's happening