Oh, wow, Paul. I'm sorry. You asked which version of the plugin I have and I responded with "the Rhino plugin". I should have said "4.5.01.111".

Am I up to date?

I'm working with the Rhino plugin, Paul. Does your guidance still apply?

I am just learning rendering and whether if someone can guide me to how to choose a particular light bulb and find its IES file? For example, let's say my interior has a series of downlights in the ceiling, or fluorescent lights... where would I go from there?

Thank you.

Hey Mac,

I’ve watched your excellent tutorial many times and I’m having trouble with one spot: you refer to a box without top and bottom with surface normals pointing inwards as allowing you to “seal your interiors so the light rays don’t fly away.” You referred to it as a portal. I’m wondering ...

Hey Paul,

I've got a table lamp in my scene. What if I want a spot light in it? What do I do?

Also do lights work with ambient occlusion?

Hello friends,

I am relatively new to Octane and am trying to become proficient for ambient occlusion for architectural interiors. I work with Rhino.
This is how I configure the settings:

Environment = I leave it at daylight (I understand it doesn't matter if this is at Daylight or Texture)
Kernel ...

Hello friends,

I am relatively new to Octane and am investigate ambient occlusion.

I have a model of the interior space that you can see in the attachment.

The image looks like the lights are off and the room is being lit by light pouring in from the outside. Is there any way to remedy this? I ...

It has only happened with the only scene I've been working with the past couple of days.

Thanks for the tip about _OctaneOpenViewport. I'll try it.

Octane render viewport open.

I switched priority to high. I wonder if that will make a difference.

In each case where the problem happened there were no other programs open.

This happens one out of approximately five times. The rest of the time it works beautifully.