i have a scene in which i want a plane to be reflected but not to cast a shadow to the objects below, but when i turn off shadow visiblity nothing happens don't know why?
here is a screen shot with everything turned on
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here is another with the shadow off, note the car is still dark ...

how do i export a camera in alembic from maya so that everything stays in focus in octane standalone?

i did that, nothing changed.
On maya camera attributes there are two boxes right of the camera aperture label, the first one changes the field of view the other does nothing and the aperture setting on the octane tab has no effect on the exported camera.
Which setting do i change to eliminate depth ...

Does anyone know how I'll go about writing a script to set the aperture of an alembic camera import to zero?
I've noticed that when i import an animated camera into octane the objects are out of focus and this is especially troublesome when the objects are moving to and from the camera. I'd like to ...

yeah, not being able to continue renders from a specific frame does not help very much either

i find i difficult to render file sequences from octane standalone as the script uses the first set of numbers it comes across instead of the last as the frame numbers, i would like to understand the file naming convention that will allow me save files with version numbers and project names that ...