Blender Octane - Lights Tweet

[OutOfTime007]

Hello,

Is it not possible to use the regular lights with Blender Octane Edition?

Just the Point, Spot, hemi and Area. The only way that I have found for now is to use a plane as a light emitter. I tried to plug in the texture emmision in the lighting nodes, but it did not work.

/OutOfTime007

[mib2berlin]

Is it not possible to use the regular lights with Blender Octane Edition?

No, Octane does not use Blender light sources.
For mesh emitter use lowest faces as possible.

Cheers, mib

[OutOfTime007]

So do you use the standalone for lights or only mesh emitters?

[pegot]

Standalone also only uses mesh lights (or IES lights).

FYI - I think Octane Blender does accept one type of native Blender light - maybe area light. Check documentation.

[pegot]

Confirmed - Octane Blender can use Blender's native Area light, but you need to hook it up to an emission node (and that documentation is found in the V1 manual - V2 manual seems incomplete).

https://docs.otoy.com/#blender-v1-using ... ctanelight