Hey BK, gave that a shot, but unfortunately its still the same issue. I ended up going with a less than desirable solution which was to bake lighting maps from a blank white diffuse material. Its unfortunate as the light maps don't have the proper global illumination but oh well.

If anyone wants ...

Anyone have any reccos?

Another example here, with these books having no faces on the back side, it almost looks like they're emitting light.... Was really hoping to create a light baking pipeline utilizing Octane but this is sorta killing that possibility.

Yes, I mean meshes with no thickness.

Oh thanks!

Further exploring, these artifacts are happening to any mesh in the scene that doesn't have backfaces. This is an environment meant for the web so there are lots of objects that have had un-seen back parts of them cutout to save UV space for lightmap bakes.

Still haven't figured out a ...

I'm using
Octane 2021.1.5 - 20.19. I've tried both Maya 2020 and 2022.

I tried upgrading to the latest version of Octane, but for some reason it was changing the lighting for the whole scene (mostly environment light not creating shadows anymore). The lighting was client approved, so I had to move ...

Having a bit of an issue when attempting to render out an irradiance pass, where this foilage in the planter is casting a white shadow? I've tried changing materials, separating/combining the mesh, and a few other things. Anyone ever see something like this? It's been perplexing me. Beauty and ...

Having a bit of an issue here with two workstations we have in our office. Both with the same hardware setup, however in Maya under the Cuda Devices tab, one machine has extra options that the other machine doesn't. Also both using the same version of Octane and the same version of Maya. Any reason ...