I am so please to know that it wasn't me who was using the shadow catcher wrong. So render passes is the way to go. When is the shadow catcher a good time to use? Or is it not recommended? Also thanks for responding.

I have live footage that I tracked in Cinema 4D and got everything ready to add my elements. I wanted to add some emissions to add more light to the objects. But when I do so, the lights cause a very harsh shadow. Thinking that maybe I had the light source too high, I lowered it but the hard shadow ...

Howdy I have the exact same problem! It isn't an Octane issue it's XP. When the mesher is "live" it generates xyz vertex maps like we all love. If you XPcache the mesher the tags are still there but if you click on them you can no longer see any vertex data. So that sucks - but if you keep the ...

aoktar wrote:Octane doesn't care how vertex tags re generated. It takes if there is really proper data. There may be a bug for XP

Gotcha thanks!

Hi everyone, so I have a scene where I have particles simulating water splashing on an object. I then turn on the XYZ Velocity checkbox to create tags to then later be put into octanes 'Object Tag' with the motion blur set as 'Vertex Speed'. I then put each tag where they belong. After that, I cache ...