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Hi,

Is it possible to crop an OBJ to create a section view in Octane Standalone?

If this is currently not possible in standalone, is it something which could be implemented in 3.07? I am hoping 6 clipping planes would allow for a complete section box.

Are there any other free/ not too expensive program which can import multiple OBJ and crop them for a section view?

Thanks,

Technically you could build a shader to do it... using the comparison nodes you could cancel out the alpha outside of the box I think. But that will definately impact performance plus it would have to plug into every material

Hi,

Is it possible to share a sample of such a shader?

Thanks,

Hi,
another option is to use the boolean air trick:
viewtopic.php?f=30&t=59185&p=303108&hil ... ir#p303108
ciao beppe

Bepeg,

Please explain how to go about this using Octane standalone.

Thanks,

Hi azims,
the trick is to untick the Camera visibility option in the object layer, so it will be catted by the geometry with the BooleanAir material assigned.
Here is a similar scene in .orbx format: ciao beppe

Hi azims,
I have just figure out to have not saved the .orbx before posting, sorry.
The following file should be more clean: ciao beppe

Thanks Bepeg,

As always you are the best.