Thanks aoktar, I think I may have overlooked the obvious here, looks like you can actually keyframe the Z-depth max in render settings. Sorry for the silly question.

Hi All,

I have a reasonably simple scene to render where I am using the Stage object in C4D to switch between camera angles so it can all render it all in one go.

The problem I am having though is that some camera angles are wide and some are close ups, requiring different Z-depth Max values to ...

I should probably also mention this worked using Image colour profile: Linear and Tonemap type: Tonemapped in the render passes tab

Thanks again aoktar. Unfortunately this still wasn't working for me...

However, I think I've realised why... I thought you only needed to change the Z-Depth max in the Octane Settings Kernel. Then I saw in your screengrab that you had quite a high number in your render settings option too. So I ...

The only way I seem to be able to get it to render as the gradient is by rendering directly from the Infochannels kernel and having the Z pass as my master image. The Z pass still doesn't work even when I take this approach, it's just plain white

Thank you for you quick reply aoktar. I can indeed get something that resembles a depth pass in the LV by increasing the Z-depth max a lot in the Info Kernel. However when I export, the depth pass does not resemble the image shown in the LV.

Hi, I'm posting as I've tried everything from every source I can find to get a successful z pass from C4d Octane without success and am now feeling pretty desperate.

I have adjusted the camera DOF Front blur and Rear blur accordingly as you would with a standard render (octane tag added of course ...