can't preview emitter or external material, sorry...

[namco]

Okay, this is starting to drive me crazy. Could a kind soul please explainto me how to use external materials with blendigo? I have extracted the pigm but no matter where I put the files, blendigo (v2.2.11-d) still gives me this rather useless error (it would be a bit more useful if it told the user what the problem actually is!) :

can't preview emitter or external material, sorry

I thought that the link to the jpg's were wrong, so I opened the igm in a text editor and manually changed the paths, but still no luck.

The materials are working fine with the indigo material editor, so what's up with blendigo?

[Meelis]

I think u can't preview via Blendigo,
but it's really easy with Material Editor.

Are u shure u want to use preview or start rendering your scene (the whole work)?

[fbrunell]

Maybe one suggestion for future version of Blendigo. It would be nice to have Blendigo launch the material editor with the external material when selecting "Preview" for external material.

[namco]

So, the button simply doesn't work? Maybe it would be a good idea to remove it then.

Another thing, when you use an external material you can't really change the setting inside indigo. Is there a way to actually load the material settings into blendigo to do a little tweaking there? When using the material editor I quickly end up with many versions of the same material with only tiny differences and it is a mess

[Doug Armand]

So, the button simply doesn't work? Maybe it would be a good idea to remove it then.

It works - just not with external materials

If your using External Materials then I recommend that you get into a workflow that includes the Indigo Material Editor as it is really much more flexible - for instance it is real easy to create multi-blend materials in it - try doing that in Blendigo!