thanks for the replies. Bepeg4d is correct, I too tried the portal solution and saw the same ill affect on the render times as opacity. I failed to mention it in my original post. In the end, I simply edited the OBJ file and removed the leaves. It's a few extra steps, but delivered the desired ...

Is it possible to hide geometry built into an OBJ element? I have some trees in which I would like to hide the leaves. I can set their opacity to zero, but that brings the rendering to a crawl. Can this be done within Octane standalone and not sacrifice the rendering speed ...

They're good!
Did you create them with the Revit plugin completely? How did you scatter the grass? A bit about your workflow?
I like Lumion but they just seem to increase the price constantly. Real annoying that is.
Cheers,
Seeker

Thanks, Seeker. No, these were created in the Standalone v1.2 ...

Nice job overall. Great effort. I like the twilight first image the best i think.
- Little inconsistent on the resolution of both models and textures. Overall too low.
- bit too much dof, and glint for me.

Thanks JessicaVines - I appreciate the feedback. Yeah, my model library is made up of 99 ...

bumping this back up hoping for some comments?

... trying to make pretty pictures.

A bit about me: I've been working with Revit since its early days (pre Autodesk) and have struggled over the many years to produce "photoreal" renderings (not Revit's fault) - mainly because I never took the time to develop my skills in MAX or Sketchup or any ...