OctaneRender™ for Carrara® User Manual

Version 2.0 beta (August 2014)

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OctaneRender™ for use with DAZ 3D® Carrara® 3D Authoring Software © OTOY INC. 2014.

developed by Simon Guard

All rights reserved.

OctaneRender™ and OTOY® and their logos are trademarks of OTOY INC.

DAZ 3D and Carrara are registered trademarks of DAZ Productions Inc. and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Welcome to OctaneRender™ for Carrara®.

The following video is by Orion_uk

Features

Integrated Environment

- Texture (HDRI)
- Daylight
- Texture + Daylight

Integrated Camera

- Thin Lens and Isomorphic
- Stereo Rendering

Integrated Materials

- Octane Materials can be configured while preserving original Carrara Shaders
- Works with internal or external texture maps.
- All current Octane 2.0 Materials and Textures are supported.

Conversion of existing Carrara Shaders

- Reasonable conversion of Multi Channel shaders which take into account
- Color
- Alpha
- Highlight
- Shininess
- Bump
- Reflection
- Transparency
- Refraction
- Glow

The following Shaders are directly converted to Octane Shaders
- Color
- Color Gradient
- Index of Refraction (in Refraction Channel)
- Texture Map
- Value (0-100 and (0-10000)
- Mixer
- Multiply
- Checkers

The following shaders are mapped but don’t produce the same result
- Add (mapped to Multiply)
- Marble
- Fractal Noise (mapped to Rigid Fractal)
- Turbulence

External Render Window

- Displays the Octane Render View Port (ORVP)
- Shows stats for the current render
- Updates when changes are made in Carrara.
- Provides:
- .ocs and .orbx exporting
- Image saving
- Diagnostics
- Pause and Resume render
- Lock render from updates from Carrara
- White Point picker
- Material picker
- Focus picker
- Restart render
- Free Camera mode.
- Can zoom and pan image.
- In free camera mode you can control the camera view in the same way as the standalone (pan, zoom, rotate).

External Settings Window

- Set the render target settings including
- Imager
- Kernal (DL, Path Tracing, PMC, Info Channel)
- Post Processing
- Render Target setting are saved and loaded seperately from the .car file (at this time)
- Animation
- animations rendered to image sequences
- camera motion blur
- Devices
- control which GPUs to use and their priority
- Octane Live DB
- download materials from the Live DB database and save them as Carrara browser files (.cbr)