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prophet
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I just downloaded this demo tonight and was testing it with some .OBJ files I created. The models were low poly and I could see some faceting of the faces (redundant) :) ...anyway, I subdivided a couple of times in my 3D app and still noticed faces when rendering. Does Octane offer any mesh smoothing or do I need to import overly high resolution models to get better/smoother results?

Thanks...love the renderer BTW.

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greg.thoman
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Just click on the material with the material picker and toggle the "smooth" option at the bottom of the material stack.
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prophet
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Worked like a charm. Thanks Greg!
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Manveer Dhillon
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I'm having trouble getting my model to "smooth" correctly in Octane. Here's a series of images and what they look like.

1. Is in Octane with the Smooth setting checked
2. Is Octane with the Smooth setting unchecked.
3. Is Lightwave 10

Do I have to import the .obj a certain way from LW10 or is there something in Octane I need to setup?
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1. Smooth checked
1. Smooth checked
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Manveer Dhillon
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2. Unchecked
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Manveer Dhillon
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3. LW10 Viewport
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Lutze
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It seems to be a problem with the lightwave plugin. Radiance promised to comminicate this to the plugin developer, Hopefully this will be solved any time soon. Just have to wait.
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p3d
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The above shots look like a problem I encountered in other apps previously - when you export a model with a subdivision smoothing modifer applied (nurms or otherwise) it isn't applied to the output .obj file...

The solution is usually to collapse any modifiers into a higher poly mesh, I'm sure there's a way to do this in lightwave - it seems to me that it is exporting the model pre-subdivision. Not being a lightwave user I'm not sure the command for that, but I'm sure there is one, it will result in a single high poly object that you can then save out in whatever format you need.

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Manveer Dhillon
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Coild this be a problem associated only with the Demo version of Ocatne? I'm thinking of purchasing the beta, could it possible fix this issue?
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Manveer Dhillon wrote:Coild this be a problem associated only with the Demo version of Ocatne? I'm thinking of purchasing the beta, could it possible fix this issue?
No, it's a problem of the exported geometry. Octane doesn't modify geometry. I.e. if you export incorrect geometry, Octane renders incorrect geometry. What are the OBJ export options in Lightwave you have?

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