Background in Octane? (Cinema 4D Octane)

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Motioncat
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Hi,

Im trying to get a custom background in Octane behind my 3d objects (in Cinema 4D), but there doesnt seem to be a 'background' option, and octane doesnt see the normal C4D background. I dont want to be the lighting of the object affected by the background, so texture/hdri environment doesnt work.

And because I have some DoF in my scene, it is hard to do it post in Photoshop (the alpha channel gets messed up when adding dof).

Has anyone a trick for that or a solution for my problem?

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aoktar
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Hi! Enable alpha in kernels and use C4D material with images or some c4d shaders on background object.
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Motioncat
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Hi,

It works, thanks !
Tijack
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Hello,

I had read this solution several times, but it doesn't work for me.

On PT, I activate Alpha Channel, I try to activate or not "Keep environnement", but I still have transparent background in the viewer.

What can I do ?

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aoktar
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Tijack wrote:Hello,

I had read this solution several times, but it doesn't work for me.

On PT, I activate Alpha Channel, I try to activate or not "Keep environnement", but I still have transparent background in the viewer.

What can I do ?

R20 - Octane 4
Background object with standard material and put any node in to color slot.
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Tijack
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Still nothing...
Here is the set up.
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Tijack
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OK,

I needed an octane Camera with enable camera Imager.

Thanks :)
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Tijack wrote:OK,

I needed an octane Camera with enable camera Imager.

Thanks :)
You don't need, but you may need restart the render. or force the updates.
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aoktar wrote:
Tijack wrote:OK,

I needed an octane Camera with enable camera Imager.

Thanks :)
You don't need, but you may need restart the render. or force the updates.
Hi, I have the similar issue... but instead of the still image, I have a video clip to be background (part of composite workflow). All the above settings work for still images but when I change it to animation it went transparent. Can I ask you if you have any solutions in this case?

Thanks!
Minas_T
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linngallery wrote:
aoktar wrote:
Tijack wrote:OK,

I needed an octane Camera with enable camera Imager.

Thanks :)
You don't need, but you may need restart the render. or force the updates.
Hi, I have the similar issue... but instead of the still image, I have a video clip to be background (part of composite workflow). All the above settings work for still images but when I change it to animation it went transparent. Can I ask you if you have any solutions in this case?

Thanks!
Hello
I have the same issue. Did you find any solution?

Thanks!
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