Thanks for bearing with me.

I think I'll just wait and see what becomes of Octane in the future.
Right now the advantages of the real-time rendering are diminished by the workflow for me.

Here it is:

radiance wrote: that's maybe self-shadowing, can you try with an image enrivonment instead of the daylight systen environment ?
Radiance

OK, here's the same object with an image environment - better, but not perfect.

Hmm, with another model something is still not quite right...

in moi3d, you need to export with high resolution (mesh), and make it unwelded, then enable the smooth on the material in octane.

Radiance


Seems that the smooth material + high resolution + MoI did the trick.

octane_test_01.png

What does the "weld" option upon exporting do exactly?

Still ...

radiance wrote:
in moi3d, you need to export with high resolution (mesh), and make it unwelded, then enable the smooth on the material in octane.

OK, thanks, I'll try it.

Thanks for the suggestions.
What's the advantage of stl over wrl?

Tried MoI - it's still quite faceted, how do you get it smooth?
Or am I doing something wrong?

I'm testing the demo and need to figure out the best way to get a model from SolidWorks to Octane.
SolidWorks doesn't export *.obj.

I tried using the export to *.wrl, then importing it to Blender and exporting to *.obj, importing to Octane.
As I'm no expert in Blender, the process was first of all ...