Octane spotlight unattended behavior

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Tagotaga
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Hello,

it seems like the Octane volumetric spotlights does not really behave as expected, to my knowlegde, see attached video.

System infos :

OS : Windows 10.0.21292 Build 21292
DCC : Cinema 4D R23
Octane version : 2020.2 R3
GPU Driver : 461.40 Studio Driver
GPU : RTX 3090
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bepeg4d
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Hi,
everything seems to work as expected here with Volume SpotLight in 2020.2-R3:
82ABEDDC-BE74-4A48-9832-33BE6EF66F86.jpeg
It seems that you have high Density and Scattering values, at the moment.

ciao Beppe
Tagotaga
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Everything is at default value is the thing.
Dazhai
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Broken and unusable for me too.
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try and say what you get with this scene? And @Dazhai, send your scene which is not usable
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KeeWe
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Dazhai wrote:Broken and unusable for me too.
Yup, just tried it after some time again. Overlapping causes problem, it renders incredible slow and the biggest problem: the light source completely blows out AND doesn't resolve even with 16k samples.

@Ahmet, your example shows the exact same behaviour.

Are there any good resources on how to use volumetric lighting in octane? I always struggle to get a decent results with relativley good render times.
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elsksa
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Hi,
KeeWe wrote:the light source completely blows out AND doesn't resolve even with 16k samples.
It is expected without a proper digital-imaging pipeline.
There is this page and this one that will help.
KeeWe wrote:
Are there any good resources on how to use volumetric lighting in octane? I always struggle to get a decent results with relativley good render times.
A call for my shameless-plug.
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