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Here is test of bedroom that we made using Octane render baking features and Unreal 4 engine.
I hope that we will see integrated Unreal 4 plugin soon.

great look, how many time for baking all the maps in Octane?

Try to add some SSAO on your scene now to make it less flat on some areas

Awesome! Thanks for sharing your work

wooow... very nice

Ok, THAT'S what I'm talking about!

Been waiting to see/use this since the beginning of Octane.

Outstanding!

Could you share any advice, tips, tricks or problems?

Pretty please? =]

Best,
O

Here are examples directly from Octane render for 3dsmax and baked textures imported in Unreal 4.
I must say before this I never used UE4 until now so everything is pretty new to me.
For this scene I baked only diffuse textures, so first in max unwrap everything one by one, then give to every object Baking group ID in Octane object properties from 1 to ...
After that create Octane camera and set to baking and in properties of baking set Group ID of object you want to bake from 1 to ....
This project took me about one week because of learning, but now it probably would take 2-3 days.
Baking was done using PT and textures size vary from 2000x2000 to 6500x6500pixels.

I have question for Octane developers is it possible to render in one pass only shadows and lights with transparent background?
So when I import to Unreal I could mix baked shadows+light with regular texture, because for floor or carpet that you saw in video I needed to bake floor,carpet twice, but maybe with shadows+lights transparent pass I could render only once and mix them in UE4 with any regular texture.

Mind blown...

I wonder how much of the boring repetitive bits could be automated via API/LUA ??? (ie could 2-3 days become 1 day?)

prehabitat wrote:Mind blown...

I wonder how much of the boring repetitive bits could be automated via API/LUA ??? (ie could 2-3 days become 1 day?)

Hi prehabitat,

Beppe implemented some time ago a great Lua script for speeding up the setup of your baking scenes:
viewtopic.php?f=73&t=52754

Also, In this discussion you may read about the development of the UE4 Octane plugin which main focus will be in texture baking:
viewtopic.php?f=40&t=51954

Best,

mojave wrote: Beppe implemented some time ago a great Lua script for speeding up the setup of your baking scenes:
viewtopic.php?f=73&t=52754

Also, In this discussion you may read about the development of the UE4 Octane plugin which main focus will be in texture baking:
viewtopic.php?f=40&t=51954

Hey Thanks Mojave, I remember coming across Beppe's script some time ago but I was still in VR nappies and didn't realise how I could use it..

Since then I've been tinkering with Quixel which I think is fortunate from the perspective of its workflow similarities to <modelling app>->UE4 workflow... probabily time I looking into the process again and tested it on one of my buildings!

Keep me on the list for the UE4 plugin (& 1st party plugin bundles)