The falloff map is a blend node between 2 textures/colors which depends on the viewing angle. The skew factor is where you define how strong the angle effect is. Set up a mix texture, put the falloff map in the Amount and the two colors in the textures.
You can also use the falloff map in the ...

with separate inner and outer rod the color will only interfere when emission value is high, use 1-3 as power with surface brightness enabled.
To get a smoother transition, you can use a gradient or falloff node in the opacit in the outer rod and a gradient in the emission color.

Okay....this is ...

I was if people have come up with a decent way to do the glow effect of a lightsaber. Something that can be customized depending on the saber color. After all, there are Sabers that have a black interior color with a outer glow color. I was thinking about having it as an interior rod which glows the ...

Okay, I have a three point lighting system I am using, one behind and two in front. The one behind is close to the floor and keeps giving too much light on the floor. Is it possible to make the floor invisible to that specific light (it's pointing up, so it's not creating shadows on the floor as it ...

I have been looking for some ideas on this. What I want is literally a cloud that I can play with the 'thickness' of to make it almost a fog like consistency and be able to have it look like a cloud in terms of shape. I know there's a way to do that with an entire area in the environment area, but I ...

If you have Octane 2020, you can add a layer directly.
In Octane 4 you can create a mix material - use your normal skin node in material 1 and your specular layer for oil/water in material 2. Use the value operator to manage the strength.

Yeah, I know, thread necromancy, but now that I have the ...

Which version of the plugin are you using? And which textures give the problem, and what is the problem? I get weird things with it too, just wanna know what issues you have.

If you have Octane 2020, you can add a layer directly.
In Octane 4 you can create a mix material - use your normal skin node in material 1 and your specular layer for oil/water in material 2. Use the value operator to manage the strength.

Don't have Octane 2020. I paid for 3/ 4 and am not a fan ...

Okay, I am going to give my thoughts on how this could be accomplished in an abstract way, but not the actual detailed ways, as I still can't work those out in my head.

Wet
This one is actually simple, provided you are just talking simple non-displacement glossiness, all you do is add a "gloss map ...

Anyone had any luck, or know of any tutorials to make sweat droplets on skin easy, or giving a skin an oiled look? I have seen the recent addon for Daz, but was hoping to see something like it for Octane, maybe even one that will work for both Poser and Daz.