Now that i am working on my little day light animation i noticed one other thing:
my scene has a scattering medium for "god rays".
And every now and them, in one frame, the material object or the scatter material of the object is not active. The frame renders without the scattering medium.

I then ...

Hi,

in the daylight system in Octane i an set a time like: 14.021

When i use the Blender plugin i can only set 14.1 or 14.2 (which gives a step of 6 minutes per hour)

Is there a way of using smaller intervalls in the Blender Plugin like in Octane itself?

Regards

Bernd

Thank you! Now that i know how, i found it in the manual

Regards

Bernd

Hi all,

i have Blender for Octane and would like to create an animation where only the daylight changes (basically i would like to see the light from morning to noon). Nothing else should move or change.

But i am totally lost how i would do that and found no tutorials / help on that topic.

Can ...

Hello,

As far as I can see, nothing has changed to previous versions. I have made a fix now, that when you drag a material from the LiveDB onto the node graph editor, it gets the name of the LiveDB entry and not the original name the macro had, when it was added to the LiveDB. I hope that is ok ...

Hi,

- when i add an material to a object node, the object node is given the name of the material. very annoying (many materials from livedb have the name "Material Macro"
- No tool tips when hovering over an node

Before:
http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum/download/file.php?mode=view&id=9974 ...

Thank you!

first i will give ffmpeg a try!

Cheers

Bernd

Hi,

what kind of software do you use to create your animation videos from the png files that octane produces? I have trouble finding something usefull to create a video.
I would prefer freeware if possible. And i would prefer a software that runs on windows.

Cheers and thanks

Bernd

Hello,

i can use the liveDB materials sometimes, but i have several problems using them:
1. i cannot download some of them because every time i try to use that material i get disconnected from the network
2. None-procedural materials don't seem to work properly for me (i use Blender to model my ...