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Any ideas from OctaneRender Team regarding additional tool likes "hide and isolate tools" in Octane Render Standalone?
It's already done by Arion Render 1.6.0... I hope this tools will be added for the next release. It's will be helping and interesting..
Just suggestion from me

What does it actually do? Can you describe it a little?

As you can see a short demonstration video here.. http://youtu.be/skWNJ4OEDFc

sample images:

Funny is, that the samplerate is lesser or equal if you hide objects.
Looks like there are visible, but uses an opaque filter...

face

In Octane you can use the hack of a material with opacity=0 if you want to hide an "object" (actually all of that which has this material). This is not feasible if you want to hide everything else, but some "object".

Until Octane knows about objects (which right now it doesn't) such hiding wont be possible to implement.

matej wrote:In Octane you can use the hack of a material with opacity=0 if you want to hide an "object" (actually all of that which has this material). This is not feasible if you want to hide everything else, but some "object".

Until Octane knows about objects (which right now it doesn't) such hiding wont be possible to implement.

btw: a more efficient hack (because it also pushes rendering performance), is to connect a portal material (set to "off") to nodes that should be hidden...

Thanks, t_3. Your tip is also a bit more elegant

matej wrote:Thanks, t_3. Your tip is also a bit more elegant

at least if you don't have to reconnect a hundred nodes using the same material thank god there are macro nodes - can't live without them to organize my projects...