Hey just wanted to say I really like your progress on these renders. Especially the last sequence, using PLight to pull illumination to the vertex map and use in a comp node. The gradients of dark to light with the linework and the dots look very good!

I've been trying some similar engraving or ...

Boxfx, thank you so much for responding. I had fixed the problem yesterday and had not updated this post yet. In the Octane Material Node editor for the leaf material's opacity channel I had placed a Gradient node and had put in a rather extreme gradient (black changing rapidly to white). The ...

Elsksa, thanks for responding! In the past week I actually have been starting to read through your Octane Color Management pages - there's so much I don't understand yet! Thank you for making a really thorough resource. It has already steered me away from PNGs :) One problem that prevents me from ...

Octane Render C4D Plugin (and Studio) ver 2021.1.6 - (R4)

I tend to like the Live Viewer images better than the Picture Viewer renders. One reason is they seem to have more subtlety and better gradients. Gradients that appear consistently in the Live Viewer render do not appear in Picture Viewer ...

Hi! Did anyone ever find a solution for getting a live feed of a camera view into an Octane shader? I ran into a similar problem today and I tried all kinds of things in the Octane Node Editor - no luck. If anyone knew how to make an OSL script that would get this going, I'd very gladly pay a few ...

Beppe, thank you for your reply and for including some pictures. I didn't know that those on-screen buttons you show in the pictures were the on-screen node selections for Live Viewer but it makes sense and I really like that functionality.

My issue was that I expected that clicking Render in the ...

UPDATE: thanks to Zoppo for this tip. The Render Pass file created by "Render to Picture Viewer" needs to opened by the Exr-IO plugin in Photoshop. Downloaded from:
https://www.exr-io.com/

Photoshop does not have native EXR support and the OTOY Compositing Plugin available on from Adobe Plugins ...

Hi, I'm having some trouble getting the cryptomattes to come out in the new AOV system. I've followed (I think) the steps laid out here. I created a file that matches the example file that you created. I have specified the Render Pass File as the attached image shows. But Live Viewer does not create ...

Thank you so much! I will try that out. It's probably my unfamiliarity with BodyPaint that has made me unable to use it. I will definitely check the project folder.

Hi and thanks for running this forum - I have solved so many little problems by reading other people's posts and replies here. Overall I really like using Octane Materials but I'm interested in making some of the edges of the objects rough or irregular without distorting the object's geometry. I've ...