I know i've done this before but seem to always mix up my settings. I'm trying to use an animated png sequence with an alpha but getting this shadow effect. Not sure what an easier and better way would be to create the transparency if anyone might have any suggestions

Thank you!

Is it out? I don't see it on the site

I'm assuming i'm not seeing the denoiser because i'm running an older version? I'm on 3.08

Wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how to deal with the noise i'm getting when i turn on some area lights as pictured in the right side image. Getting the same results using both Pathtracing and Directlighting. These were rendered with Directlighting 1600 max samples and GI ambient occlusion

Looks like this

It's bad but i just don't think i'm doing something correctly and unclear how to map these images correctly. Hoping someone can actually shed some insight into the process.

Not really sure where that is. Maybe you can point me in the right direction. Attached is what i have

Hi sorry what is the Mesh UV projection? Can't seem to see it in the material anywhere under Projection. I just have a texture tag, uv and phong tag. Tried cranking the phong tag
to 180 which smoothes things out a bit but it's still not the same look as the original preview image.

Not necessarily an Octane question directly but just got this model from Turbosquid and wanted to play with it in the renderer. The obj comes in jagged like the left image. When i add a subdivision surface it becomes too smooth and neither look like the original model over grey. Any suggestions on ...