Thanks. It looks like setting opacity to 0.0 does make the light sources disappear from the render, while preserving their diffuse illumination. Unfortunately, this also causes them to have zero reflection contribution. Doesn't make sense to do one and not the other. I want ALL of their ...

How do I make Octane Light objects cast light, but not show up in renders as visible objects? Seems they invariably show up as visible light objects if I'm looking at their facing normals, rather than viewing them from their back sides. As far as I can see, hiding them, or parenting them to a hidden ...

OK. Got it working. Not sure what I was doing wrong before. Thanks for the tips.

I can't get any UV mapped objects to texture map correctly using the Maya plugin. Textures all appear to be obeying the "orientation" values and mapping as some kind of spherical projection, but they are ignoring the surface UVs on the actual objects. Is there something I have to do get Octane ...