Is possible to achieve a video feedback like effect?

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panic1983
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Hi there,

I was wondering if it is possible to achieve a video feedback looping effect in Octane for Cinema 4D? I know that Cinema 4D has added a camera shader in the Mograph shader menu, but I was wondering if it was possible to achieve this effect with Octane?

I have attached a reference image for the effect I'm trying to achieve.

Thanks!
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jobigoud
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Creating a loop in the node graph is not possible so you couldn't take the output of the render and use it as a texture on the TV in the same node graph. That would have been the easy way.

So you would need for the camera to do a "Droste" effect. This will be more complex if the TV is curved or there is lens distortion and it doesn't project a clean quadrilateral in image space. You will need to figure the boundaries of the TV screen and how the TV/camera lens is distorting the image. Then for each pixel inside the TV area you would replace the ray with the corresponding one shooting the larger scene.
panic1983
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Ok. Thanks for the reply! Much appreciated.
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