by boxfx » Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:39 am
boxfx
Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:39 am
The only way I found to do this is to use the AOV groups, but just render a simple beauty pass.
Set the main octane render settings to render a normal noisy image. ie dont turn on denoising.
Then under the "Render AOV Group" tab, enable "save beauty" and below that turn on "denoised beauty"
Now to get the files out of c4d, use the regular save tab to save out the noisy standard render, and then under the Octane Render AOV group page, set a second filename in there for the denoised render.
DONT use the multipass save settings, this does nothing in octane 2021+ (it used to work in older versions, but was removed I believe) The other thing to keep in mind, using the AOV's requires c4d's multipass setting to be enabled, this in turn will force your standard render to be rendered in linear colour space, so you will need to render to 16bit and then convert or interpret the footage accordingly afterwards.
If anyone has a simpler method than this, then I am all ears.