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Ludovic_L
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Hello to all,
I present myself my name is Ludovic and I'm quite new to Octane. I bought it about 1 month ago and have tried to learn it on my own. From the PDF that comes with Octane and some forum post on the forum I think that I've learned a good part of the basics. But I've reach my limit in that way.
I have worked an interior scene and a simple exterior to learn and make test.

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I've got some good feedback on both, but when I see the renders that most of you guys do I understand that I'm pretty far from what can be done in Octane.

So I would be really grateful to you guys if you could help me with with some tips and advice. I know that the scene are not great and that things like the furniture are too close to the chimney or the grass being bad. But I would really like to learn the tricks in the settings you use to make your scene so photo realistic.

I have used the same technique for both images. A pass with PMC with HDRI and PMC with daylight. Both scene are model in Blender exported to Octane with the script exporter. Then put together in blender again. I graphic card is quite old, a GTS 450, so even with long render hours I still have some noise.

Sorry for being soo long for my first post, thanks for your help.
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Andreas.visjon
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Hi Ludovic,

first of all its a good start, the interieur looks quite good.
I think it´s not the point to tell you a special advice on the technical part of creating realistic images.
You need to make you understand how to act with light and shadow. Materials are important, have a look outside in real, how all the different materials react to light. Have a look on good photographs, how they play with light and colors to make a picture interesting. Also the way how to expose a picture is important.
Some years ago, the book "Digital Lighting and Rendering" by Jeremy Birn helps me a lot, i think its realy worth to read.
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Ludovic_L
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Hello Andreas,
Thank you for the advice. I'll start to read about it and look for lighting tutorials.
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Ludovic_L
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Just for fun model those in 45 mins and render in 2 min :D.

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Ludovic_L
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WIP of a personal project. I'll add some details later as another work await. Please C & C.

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