Light management

[affixxius]

Good morning all,

Is there such a window in octane where i can view all of my light sources and there relative sample rates in one place?

I currently have to write down/ try and remember them all. Not a major headache day to day but on projects with lots of lights its difficult to balance.

Thanks!

AK

[frankmci]

You should be able to do something using the "Show Octane Node Graph" under the Octane Dialog>Help>Show Octane Node Graph. That's pretty clunky, though, with the actual sample rate on the emissive material properties buried five or six levels down the hierarchy.

I think the easiest way is to use Xpresso to drive the Sampling levels on all the desired lights from one location. I like to use Nulls with custom User Data channels to control this sort of thing. You can certainly get a whole lot fancier in Xpresso, but simpler is usually better.

[affixxius]

Hi thanks for your reply

Yer i have done it that way but its more time consuming than id hoped! I'm hoping to find/ make a solution i can reuse, for example making a null with a object list user data and once the lights are dropped in it reads out the sampling rates of each/ shared properties.

It will be a good study I think in either xpresso or python!

Thanks

AK