Get Error when applying materials to a specific clothes set.

nokoteb99

The item is  "HOT TOPIC" from the da z store. It's clothing for Genesis 3 Female. when i load the clothes and apply MATS it says. "An error ocurred while reading file .see the log file for more details"

 

and the log file says

"Error reading file, see log for more details" "Selected node not a valid hierarchy". Is this item just defective and it won't ever work, or is there a fix?

Notice i don't have Gen 3. I have Gen 2 but i got the thing that allows Gen 2 to use Gen 3. But that's not even the point. All other Gene3 clothes that i bought you can apply their MATS fine. just this one you can't.

Richard Haseltine

I suspect that the materials are a Hierarchical Materials preset (if so the tag at top-right should say so) - try making sure the clothes are parented to the figure, select the figure, and apply the preset.

nokoteb99

Richard Haseltine said:

I suspect that the materials are a Hierarchical Materials preset (if so the tag at top-right should say so) - try making sure the clothes are parented to the figure, select the figure, and apply the preset.

Interesting. At the top right of the material preview it says RSL . DOn't know what that means. But i tried what you said and it didn't work

nokoteb99

Oh i looked by hovering and it gives information. It said "preset hierarchial material" so you were right. in that

 

But i guess it won't work and i know why maybe it's cause they're clothes meant for G3. i just got the plugin to use G3 clothes on G2. But maybe that doesn't help for preset hierarchial materials.

Richard Haseltine

Are there no presets for individual items? You copuld make you own - load the clothes onto G3F, apply the hierarchical preset, then select the items individually and File>Save as>Materaiis preset. I do think it would be worth opening a suport ticket if there is no way to apply the materials other than the hierarchical presets.

The RSL tag means Renderman Shader Language - a 3Delight setting. Iray settings will have MDL (Material Definition Language). The preset type should appear above those.