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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.





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.

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.

Hello Andreas,
Thank you for the advice. I'll start to read about it and look for lighting tutorials.

Just for fun model those in 45 mins and render in 2 min .

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