how do i get the floor object to work?

[dive]

how do i get the endless floor look with octane? the cinema 4d floor object wont show in live viewer..

[Yan]

Hi!

I don't know if it's another way, but this is how I do it:

Make a standard plane, then make an octane diffuse material-check the matte option from the material manager. Assign that material to the plane. This way the plane will have only shadow on it.
The next step is to use the octane texture environment and set whatever color you want.

Or if you do'n want your model to be affected by the environment light, you can use an area light in the background with low power.

I hope that helps.

[rodross]

If you need HDRI reflections it becomes a bigger unlikely pain. I've really been missing my endless backgrounds with the floor and BG object...if we had a good compositing tag, we could do it easily, but for now, no dice.