Lighting Controls

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sohara20
Licensed Customer
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Hi Juanjo,
Ive been doing some heavy lighting for a commercial production and the need for more ways to control light has arisen. Please let me know if I have overlooked something or what is possible in the near term.Thanks for your time! I will also post this in the octane standalone forums as i imagine alot of this falls in their lap.(not sure what goes where ;) )
- Control a Light's contribution to the environment medium, as well as the Environment lights contribution.
-Invisible lights - add light to scene while allowing all other types of rays to pass through the obj.
- Light groups affect beauty- with this option- lights with a group id of say 4 would only Light other objects with this group id and this effect would be not just in object layers but the beauty as well.
- A separate" Keep Env Medium" option independent of "keep environment".
- Reflect/Transm visibility controls in addition to Camera vis and Shadow vis.
- Sun light Transforms other than lat long month day etc.
Thanks!
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juanjgon
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Yes, it is a nice list of lighting feature request. Anyway be aware that near all of them must be supported by Octane Standalone before expose them in the plugins.

Can you elaborate a bit more the last one? How do you need to control the sun light?

-Juanjo
sohara20
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Hi Juanjo,
Its not a "need" by any means but just being able to control with a locator the position of the sun might be nice.
Thanks!
Shane
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