render layers - black/coloured shadow pass

[niestudio]

I think I found the culprit.
Octane Render settings are not recognizing those tokens you're using, so it's not outputting them properly.
The layers you're getting are from the C4D multi layer dialogue

Try this (in the same file you posted, so its exactly the same comparison):
[*] Uncheck the main Save
[*] Octane Renderer > Render Passes > setup a simple standard file path without tokens using the ellipsis
Render to picture viewer

you should get something like this:

[fatfreemedia]

I think I found the culprit.
Octane Render settings are not recognizing those tokens you're using, so it's not outputting them properly.
The layers you're getting are from the C4D multi layer dialogue

Try this (in the same file you posted, so its exactly the same comparison):
[*] Uncheck the main Save
[*] Octane Renderer > Render Passes > setup a simple standard file path without tokens using the ellipsis
Render to picture viewer

you should get something like this:

Thanks for taking the time to go through this with me. Unfortunately I'm getting no files. Renders to picture viewer, does not save files out to disk. Worth submitting as a bug? I suspect it has to do with Windows file handling.

[niestudio]

very strange, can you post a screenshot of your render settings?

[fatfreemedia]

sure:

[niestudio]

very strange indeed.
Maybe try another format; psd or tif?

[fatfreemedia]

It strikes me as odd that in order to save my files I have to uncheck the save option. For me the expected behaviour would be that no files are saved.

So - with that in mind, I have checked the save option and rendered to tiff.

IT WORKS!!!!!

Definitely different behaviour between OSX and Windows - I'll submit a bug report.

For anyone following this, the steps I followed to get a black shadow pass out are as follows:

- check all save options
- C4d beauty/multipass render to exr
- make sure the main c4d pass destination is set to an absolute, simple path eg "d:/renders/myFiles" rather than "./renders/$prj"
- make sure the Octane multipass destination is set to an absolute, simple path eg "d:/renders/myFiles" rather than "./renders/$prj"
- Octane render format rendering to tiff

There may be a more efficient way to do this but so far this is what's getting me the passes I need.

THANKS NIESTUDIO!

[niestudio]

Glad you got it working!!
However, you should not need the C4d Save dialogue check boxes unless you want a flat jpeg for reference (you'd probably need this if you render with the render queue)
Otherwise the Octane render settings should be able to output everything you need.

I'd play around with the check boxes a little more to test and get exactly what you need, just make notes on what you change each time

[fatfreemedia]

No - that's the main problem (at least as of 3.06.01) - the Octane dialogue doesn't save anything on Windows unless the C4D save options are also used. It renders the images to picture viewer, but the files are not saved to disk.

[aoktar]

No - that's the main problem (at least as of 3.06.01) - the Octane dialogue doesn't save anything on Windows unless the C4D save options are also used. It renders the images to picture viewer, but the files are not saved to disk.

What's about this topic? A lot of messages and complete confusion on me about main idea.

[fatfreemedia]

I've been trying, on and off for a couple of weeks, to render a black shadow pass. It seems like there's a discrepancy between the OSX and Windows versions of the plugins regarding which options need to be enabled.