ah deleting that shader has made things a lot more stable, thanks!

so a material in the project can have an effect even if it's not applied to anything in the scene?

hi there, thanks for the reply.

here's the log from octane - the scene crashes as soon as i try to render in the octane preview window or render to picture viewer

here's the scene!

Hi there, working on a scene with a character rigged with the C4D character rig. Doing some really simple stuff in Octane and it generally crashes on first render.

I have tried copy/pasting the elements into a new scene, separately and together - this tends to work the first time, and I can get ...

Hey there, I've been using Octane for C4D in my refurb Mac Pro Tower, which has a GTX Titan Black. A friend has offered me an 8G Gigabyte AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Edition at a friendly price - can anyone confirm that I could successfully use this in a dual GPU setup for Octane rendering? Many ...

Hello there,

I've been using an Octane subscription within C4D on OS, working between my home computer and a virtual desktop on a render farm, logging out and logging in on each computer. This has been going fine until today, when I can no longer log into Octane on the virtual desktop as it says I ...

thanks for the reply!

here's a simple project setup: octane_selfshadowtest1.c4d.zip

this currently renders as this, where the ground objects are also casting shadows:

octane_selfshadowtest1.png

what I'd like to achieve is this, which I set up in native, where the ground objects are only ...

Hi there - forgive me if this is an obvious question but after watching several tutorials and trying different methods, I have still to find the solution.

I'm compositing an animated character into footage, and would like to render a shadow pass layer with the character for compositing purposes ...