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Hi There,

I'm new to Octane and still getting my head around a few things but I am liking the results I'm getting so far. One question though, When I set up a scene in LW with no octane lights and no environment set, how come the scene is still lit? I'm seeing an overall diffuse light even though my bg is set to black (although it makes no difference what I set it to in the backdrop panel). I would have expected a black bg until I 'switched on' an environment??

Thanks
Roger

rojharris wrote:Hi There,

I'm new to Octane and still getting my head around a few things but I am liking the results I'm getting so far. One question though, When I set up a scene in LW with no octane lights and no environment set, how come the scene is still lit? I'm seeing an overall diffuse light even though my bg is set to black (although it makes no difference what I set it to in the backdrop panel). I would have expected a black bg until I 'switched on' an environment??

Thanks
Roger

By default if you don't have octane lights, emissive geometry or an evironment node inside the render target node editor, plugin add a white texture environment to allow see something whithout more settings. If you want a scene without any kind of environment lighting you must add to the render target a texture environment with color set to black.

-Juanjo

Ah, great. Thanks Juanjo

rojharris wrote:Ah, great. Thanks Juanjo

In fact plugin always add a pure white texture environment if you don't have any environment linked in the render target editor, even if you have lights or emissive geometry in the scene.


-Juanjo

Hi,
Is there anyway to animate target of focus to make "shifting focus" effect? I want to make a null and use it as the focus object and animate it to make shifting focus effect..

Thanks

aw1 wrote:Hi,
Is there anyway to animate target of focus to make "shifting focus" effect? I want to make a null and use it as the focus object and animate it to make shifting focus effect..

Thanks

You only need to link a LW constant node to animate any render targer parameter unsing the constane "E" envelope.

-Juanjo

juanjgon wrote:

aw1 wrote:Hi,
Is there anyway to animate target of focus to make "shifting focus" effect? I want to make a null and use it as the focus object and animate it to make shifting focus effect..

Thanks

You only need to link a LW constant node to animate any render targer parameter unsing the constane "E" envelope.

-Juanjo

Working
Thanks

juanjgon, just a question, maybe it's just me having a little problem to adjust from the standalone to the lightwave plug, it feels kinde strange....but my question is..in stand alone some input parameters are don with sliders (from 0 to 1 value, etc...), in the plug these value are replaced with a black to white tone wich represend the value 0 to 1 i guess (for example the specular input for the glossy material), and some inputs like for example "bump power value" has a numeric input if you plug in a texture image....now my problem is wat is the range off these values, is it from 0 to 1 (where 0 is nothing and 1 is max) for bump value, are is there no limit wath so ever...it would be easier for me to now wat range and influence these settings have, you now a min max representation.....anyway very nice plug....but i nead to get my head arround it

Polytek

polytek wrote:juanjgon, just a question, maybe it's just me having a little problem to adjust from the standalone to the lightwave plug, it feels kinde strange....but my question is..in stand alone some input parameters are don with sliders (from 0 to 1 value, etc...), in the plug these value are replaced with a black to white tone wich represend the value 0 to 1 i guess (for example the specular input for the glossy material), and some inputs like for example "bump power value" has a numeric input if you plug in a texture image....now my problem is wat is the range off these values, is it from 0 to 1 (where 0 is nothing and 1 is max) for bump value, are is there no limit wath so ever...it would be easier for me to now wat range and influence these settings have, you now a min max representation.....anyway very nice plug....but i nead to get my head arround it

Polytek

Yes, you are right, at some point I am going to add limits to all plugin parameteres, it is in my roadmap.

-Juanjo

That's fine, you've don a marbelous job so far....

Greetsss