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I'm using a HDR picture of the sky in the background, but the problem is the picture is too high and there is black space between the floor and the picture of sky. I probably need to make adjustments to the Octane Full Transform node to lower the picture, but I don't know how to fix ...

Unable to install OctaneRender Server 11.20. File says: Error opening file for writing. C:\Program Files\OctaneServer\octane.dll. Click abort to stop installation.

This works ok now. I turned my computer off and then on and it was able to install with no problem.


Windows 10
GTX 960M
16 GB RAM ...

I notice when I have scene that I put in Render mode from View Shading I go from Solid mode to Rendered mode, I have the samples set at 250 samples. The software won't stop at 250 and will go to 500 or higher. Sometimes the software program will be unresponsive after this. I try to move it from ...

For Octane for Blender. This was working fine, but now when I try to render an object I'm now getting a message that says: Not connected (also Server Error). No Render-server at address 127.0.01

Octane Server address says 127.0.01. When I click Activation state nothing happens.
On the Otoy website ...

Can someone tell me how to use Octane render layers to remove shadows in a scene. Is there a tutorial on this for Octane Blender? I know I need each object on a different layer, but I can't figure out how to do this myself.

I have a man in a room that I would like to be put on a separate layer so that sunlight outside the room from World Tab environment will shine on the character. How do I do this? I have the man, walls and ceiling on different layers, but the walls still block the sunlight.

Thanks. That worked fine.

How do I put in a HDRI for a background in Octane Blender?

I have a room with no ceiling to let light through into the room from the World Tab's Daylight, but there are shadows in the room I would like to remove. Is there a way of doing this?

I have a tunnel in my scene with a metal Plantarlapidus material on the walls, but light from the World tab isn't going through it. I placed an area lamp inside the tunnel but no light is being emitted. I made one of the walls to emit light with Blackbody emission, diffuse node and lamp output but ...