Spotlight issue - looks like a volume Tweet

[PixelEyes]

I'm having an issue with using the Octane Spotlight in my scene. It's creating what looks like a volume in the render and not sure how to fix or set it up to look like a light instead.

I attached a screenshot below. Any help or advice on how to properly set up the spotlight would be huge thanks!

[elsksa]

Hi,

There will be a volume appearing if there is a volume container encompassing the scene or if a volume "spectron" light is utilized.

I've noticed the kernel settings have to be adjusted.
I'd recommend consulting three topics I wrote about:
Octane Lighting
Octane Volumes
Octane Settings

[PixelEyes]

Hi,

Thanks for the response. I took a read through your site, great stuff on there! I appreciate the effort to educate you've put in.

As for the volume, the spotlight isn't encompassed by a volume container. All I did was select the Spotlight feature from Octane's Live Viewer dropdown option and, what you see in the screenshot is what shows up. It looks as if it's a volume, it might not actually be though. But it isn't light, and even when I change the values, nothing changes. I noticed you are using the standalone renderer, I'm only using the live viewer within cinema. Do you know if there is a way to edit/control the spotlight from within cinema?

Also, which kernels did you notice were adjusted? I believe I'm using what Octane provides as native values when starting up a render.

Will continue to read your site! Appreciate it.

Thanks!

[bepeg4d]

About Volume SpotLight in c4doctane, you are using an outdated version 2020.2.1-R3, where the Light medium node was missing from Octane Light tag:

Here is how it looks like if you upgrade c4doctane to 2021.1.7, or 2022.1-R8:

Here is the link to the manual:
https://docs.otoy.com/cinema4d/SpotLight.html

ciao,
Beppe

[PixelEyes]

Thank you so much Beppe, that makes a lot of sense. I'm going to work on installing the new version to the new version of c4d.
Appreciate it!

[PixelEyes]

Hey Beppe,
When trying to install the new version of Octane on Cinema 2023 I was presented with this error. Attached below. Not sure how to deactivate octane in R23 and transfer it over to 2023. Thanks

[bepeg4d]

Ok, please write to help at otoy dot com sharing your OTOY username, in this way we can check your account without sharing here sensitive data.

ciao,
Beppe