Is it downloading or rerendering material previews for every thumbnail every time I open the material DB? I'm on a 1000mbit connection and have the fastest workstation money can buy...why does it feel like Otoy is wasting my time here?

Thanks!!!

I'm a bit of an xpresso novice. I have a project where I need to have a ton of different images used as opacity maps for several different materials. I want to use xpresso to reference the folder with the image sequence and randomly assign a texture to the opacity of the material. Is this possible ...

Thanks for the great info. I'll look into other ai opportunity too!

Is there enough demand for RNDR for me to use my 4090 as a node? I haven't found much information online for this, does anyone even use RNDR?

Has anyone done this before? What kind of $ can be made from running a 4090 RNDR node?

Looking into this now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C-qqIAHoGY ...

Thanks! It appears it was the step length.

Going through the guide now- thanks for that. I'm not sure which settings is inappropriate though. Is there a specific setting that you see that I need to pay attention to? Thanks again!

Here's the file if anyone wants to take a look:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1icpiqi1yp8q4 ... d.c4d?dl=0

https://preview.redd.it/1iuxl4pct4sa1.png?width=1917&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=d001a1628c2912839bbb695e838ad9fc31bfeccc

I want the toon lines to be full black on my alien but with a slimy specular coating over the toon shader. Am I setting this up correctly?

This is the material node ...

I have a scene with rigged and animated meshes used in a scatter object. Is it possible to convert the objects to instances or normal meshes to be used with other c4d tools? Essentially just octane placing the objects in the scene. Is this a thing that can be easily done? I saw some import/export ...

Maybe fix your unlocking and licensing system. I've moved my personal software to Redshift and now where I work, we are cancelling 2 licenses and moving to Redshift.
Yes, I know how to unlock properly. It works correctly 10% of the time..

omg yes! This is absolutely insane. I've been locked out ...