Problem with lights in the plugin

[RK-art]

Hi,

I have a problem in understanding how to light up my scene with the integrated plugin.
I created a new scen with nothing than a cube, a plane and a camera with Octane-Cam-Tag.
Then I call up the C4D-Plugin, choose Directlighting or PMC or Pathtracing and / or set Octane as the render engine in the C4D-render-dialog.
I disabled the 'Lichtautomatik' in the C4D options.
No other lights are added to the scene so far.
When I hit now the render-button (or preview inside the plugin), I see an ambient-lit scene.
OK, might be the default when no lights are added.
Now I add a light with an Octane-light-tag and hit Render (Preview) again.
Normally, the ambience should be gone now and I should see now my scene only lit by the light I added.
But I always see a washed out, ambient lit scene as before, no matter what I do with my light.
I see that my light has effekt on the scene, but I cannot get rid of that ugly standard-ambience.

What do I wrong ?

[RK-art]

OK, I found something that might be the solution.

When I add a sky-Object with a black C4D-Standard-material, then the scene is only lit by my lights and the ambience is gone.

Is that the way to set up the basic lighting correctly ?

1) add a sky-Object with a black C4D-Standard-material to kill the standard ambient light
2) Set up my lights in the scene.

[bepeg4d]

hi, simply add an octane environment object and lower the power interactively until you match the desired illumination
ciao beppe

[aoktar]

OK, I found something that might be the solution.

When I add a sky-Object with a black C4D-Standard-material, then the scene is only lit by my lights and the ambience is gone.

Is that the way to set up the basic lighting correctly ?

1) add a sky-Object with a black C4D-Standard-material to kill the standard ambient light
2) Set up my lights in the scene.

Many thx, Beppe.

Octane need a light source to rendering. If you don't have a Sky object Plugin makes a default texture environment.
If you put one or more Sky Objects, Plugin uses first one. If you put a directlight/sunlight then Sky objects will be ignored. Daylight Environment is activated.

Adding a arealight not disable the Sky object. You must put a Environment Tag with texture or color nodes or a standart material.
That'a all.