Thanks Siliconaya. I'm having a truckload of trouble with this at the moment, so I'm taking a break from the frustration...will be back at it when my patience level returns to normal...

LOL…nevermind, I figured this one out, too. Dunno why it worked and then stopped (except maybe it switched to default for some reason?), but the way to fix it is in the Nodegraph Editor. Diffuse = image, the dropdown below that (isn’t labeled) shows the objects in the scene, and you can choose ...

I created a “crowd” scene using several planes that had renders of individual people (one person per plane) loaded in the diffuse channel with a matching transparency map loaded in the opacity channel. It worked fine in DAZ Studio, and in fact, worked fine in the Octane Render for DAZ Studio ...

Thanks Jools! It's all very exciting...or will be when I get to the point where I feel I have a semblance of a handle on it..! Tonight's noob question is: where did my plane go? I thought I saw a vid somewhere that showed someone converting a simple plane into a light source, like we do in Reality ...

I was wondering if changing "use limits" would help. Good to know. Thanks!

Wait - I found it! Nodegraph Editor.

Hm...except...it doesn't seem to want to allow me to change it...

Jazbee wrote:Hi

After you set up a camera, go to the camera tab in DAZ and change "OctaneRender Aperture" to "0", this will make everything in focus when rendering with Octane.

THANK YOU!

I can't seem to figure out (shock!) how to render without using DOF. I just want everything in the scene to be in focus, and this is an animation where the subjects and the camera move...any suggestions on how to accomplish this? Thanks!

Hey Mellisa. Here some easy basic material settings for skin to start with:

Skin:
Set material to glossy.
Keep Specular at 1
Set Roughness power to about 0.30
Set Bumb power to about 0.125

Lips, inner mouth, gums, teeth, tongue, nails, sclera:

Same as above but keep the Roughness low. Like ...