Octane Standalone Crop an OBJ for section view

[azims]

Hi,

Is it possible to crop an OBJ to create a section view in Octane Standalone?

If this is currently not possible in standalone, is it something which could be implemented in 3.07? I am hoping 6 clipping planes would allow for a complete section box.

Are there any other free/ not too expensive program which can import multiple OBJ and crop them for a section view?

Thanks,

[Phantom107]

Technically you could build a shader to do it... using the comparison nodes you could cancel out the alpha outside of the box I think. But that will definately impact performance plus it would have to plug into every material

[azims]

Hi,

Is it possible to share a sample of such a shader?

Thanks,

[bepeg4d]

Hi,
another option is to use the boolean air trick:
viewtopic.php?f=30&t=59185&p=303108&hil ... ir#p303108
ciao beppe

[azims]

Bepeg,

Please explain how to go about this using Octane standalone.

Thanks,

[bepeg4d]

Hi azims,
the trick is to untick the Camera visibility option in the object layer, so it will be catted by the geometry with the BooleanAir material assigned.
Here is a similar scene in .orbx format:

BooleanAirTestB.orbx

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ciao beppe

[bepeg4d]

Hi azims,
I have just figure out to have not saved the .orbx before posting, sorry.
The following file should be more clean:

BooleanAirTestB2.orbx

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ciao beppe

[azims]

Thanks Bepeg,

As always you are the best.