This is my setup.
BTW, I'm still learning the basics of Octane and I'm not a tech guru guy, so this may be a painfully easy solution that I've simply missed, but any help is greatly appreciated.
I made a plain, mid grey color. I made a default sphere, RGB 255,128,0. I set the render target to a basically default set up, essentially a daylight shot. I experimented with various gamma + response settings: gamma 1 + response sRGB, gamma 2.2 + response Linear, gamma 1 + response Linear (yuk), etc. Nothing seemed to work out right, the color always blows up or changes significantly. Shouldn't you be able to change from a yellow highlight to more of a white highlight color? I know that sounds very amateurish but Octane is famous for having something for nearly everything, under the hood, with practically no post work. I was hoping there was a "white highlight" type button or solution. lol
I know that tone mapping is complex and tricky in Octane, and that I'm looking at things in a Lightwave color picker way instead of an Octane linear space way, but with help, I hope that will change soon.
Ultimately, I just need to be able to match RGB values SOMEHOW, preferably in the Octane plugin, and not Photoshop.
Is there a workaround node or setup that allows a RGB 0-255 color picker values to be converted, read and adjusted as a linear space 0-1 values in the Lightwave plugin. I have a variety of architectural samples, vinyl siding pieces and what not, that I need to be able to match without blowing up their color.
I've been reading various posts on Linear Workflow in Octane and trying to understand how it works, like the following link, but most were rather perplexing to me and didn't help that much. I was hoping there might be a Lamens terms description.
https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=33214[/color][/color]
Another side problem was ARTIFACTS showing up on a simple default 24/12 sphere, with the smoothing options ON in both Lightwave and the material node, why? So much for lower polygon objects? Will I have to sub-patch or subdivide everything now?
Thanyou in advance