that sounds amazing and i can't wait to test that out. thanks for commenting

thanks for posting this update. this is a fantastic gift and should be better implemented in octane for C4D as a native workflow.

the idea came from seeing this control in Redshift. Rendertime splines is the only way to handle this efficiently with many particles

Octane's object tag allows root/tip thickness yes. but it doesn't allow more control to allow a thin root, fat body, thin tip.
like this image. the C4D hair shader allows this for the hair generator and Octane will render it. but I can't apply that hair shader to a tracer object. it doesn't seem to ...

maybe not obvious is that i want to avoid setting up a sweep for memory consumption. it brings the system to a crawl.
I'd love to control the sweep size along the paths at rendertime using the tracer object.

what i want to do is taper the start and end of each path/spline generated by the tracer object. I can use the Octane object tag and turn on "render as hair" and use an octane shader but the Octane hair tag doesn't give a graph to control hair thickness along the length of the curves. The c4d hair ...

i guess the main problem for me was that none of the passes I selected were showing up in the EXR final render. so I guess it may not be user error as I had assumed but rather bugs that have to be resolved.

It sure seems like a great niche for a youtube content creator to fill...regular video updates on new octane features and workflows.
Please someone, I WILL SUBSCRIBE!

is there a walkthrough/instructions somewhere on how to set up render passes in this new AOV system? I can't seem to render out any passes in the exr render tests I have tried. no matter what aov passes i add the final exr has only one layer in it. i'd like to know if anyone can point me to some ...

is there a walkthrough/instructions somewhere on how to set up render passes in this new AOV system? I can't seem to render out any passes from a file I had set up in an earlier octane plugin release. no matter what aov passes i add the final exr has only one layer in it. i'd like to know if anyone ...