Wish I had more information on my system crash including BSOD when adjusting materials via the node tree in the Octane panel in SketchUp 2025 (latest), latest nvidia studio drivers. File is 27 megs, pretty simple materials. May be a conflict with new su physically based preview . Is there a log ...

I think what you are seeing is the logically correct shadow. It's like stacking filters; the blue building has already blocked the red light, so there's none left to go through the pink building. Where the shadows overlap, you'll get only what frequencies can pass through both buildings. You may ...

I have a bit of a follow up to this question.

Shadows are passing through the mix material. Is it possible to prevent this? The diffuse material seemingly does this, but the specular material seems to allow the shadow from another object to pass right through. Here's an image to illustrate the ...

Wow, I was doing this wrong! I was using the mix texture node and not the Mix Material. Thanks for you help! It's exactly the result I was in need of.

Hi,

Wracking my head around this. I've tried specular material which gives a bit of an undesired result.

I'd like to assign an rgb value to the output shadow of a single object, but not the rest of the scene.

See the attached video as a primer to better understand what I'm after...
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If you are able to make the displacement map seamless it should slice the edge perfectly.

This is at least the way it works in World Creator.

Continued frustration. Honestly haven't been keeping up to date with the plugin. Tried to install this one, and it just causes grief. I just want to go back to the previous version that worked.

Octane SU plugin is the definition of insanity.

This is the most disappointing page to visit on the forum. Please give us something to look forward to in 2018...

I don't know what to say anymore guys. TiG's exporter still works wonders (v2017). The geometry is crisp and clean and organized.

Alternatively, had to wait 5 minutes for Octane plugin to build an empty scene on startup.