Hello
Is there a way to render with my beauty a pass with only illumination (and idealy with bumps/displacements ) ?
Like the total light pass of Advanced Render/Redshift/Vray ?


EDIT:
ow OK I think it's the irradiance pass I was looking for.

Ciao Beppe
Thanks for feedback.
Yes I tryed, but typically I have nested Instances into nested Cloners, and it starts to fall.
Imagine for example scenes like old architecture with many bas-relief and moulures, deco elements and so on.
A deco plaster goes into a group, then is cloned x time on a ...

Hello.
Any chance you could add a Polygon center option in Octane Scatter source of distribution ?


I have issues when using lotof cloners and instances in "render instance" mode.
Works super fine in Standard/Physical/Redshift, but if Octane, it doesn't work at all anymore.
Impossible in OSX ...

Ciao Beppe !
I still have many 440 441 errors with any scene in OctaneX, wonder what it is ?

Anyhow I'll share the scene, thank you very much.

I redid the scene with last working version… and copy past all new elements 1 by one.
It still crashes time to time but it renders. Maybe A gradient node on Hair Geometry generated mesh ?
Blah !

Hello.
My scene wont render and I can't find why.
It rendered correct last night, I modified few stuff here and there and now it won't render at all anymore.
Restarted computer, doesn't help.

I'm OSX 26.2 Apple M1 Ultra 48 core 128 Vram

OctaneRender_Prime_2026.1_for_Cinema4D_v1.8

Here a resumed ...

New Standalone for OctaneRender version 2025.4 has been released:

https://render.otoy.com/octane_eula_only_downloads/000_obd/265/e5752eac/fa/0e/bb/38/Octane_X_Prime_2025_4_macos.dmg

This is the first OctaneRender version supporting macOS 26 Tahoe.

Plugins will follow asap.

ciao,
Beppe


Hello ...

sorry admin, double click / double post

Ah OK I found it ! Override Kernels settings !

Hello
Is it possible to use different Kernels linked to different Takes ?
Like
• Take 1 = Max Sample 800 Spec depth 64
• Take 2 = Max Sample 2000 Spec Depth 8