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How do we create this in Blender?

I see that in the data tab under Octane properties there is a check box for "Infinite plane" but nothing seems to happen when I check that - the plane geometry still renders with its normal boundaries.

Ok I see what I did wrong - had the render type on Global - needs to be on one of the other settings naturally.

However, I'm getting very strange behavior.

The infinite plane comes in at around a 45° angle. Changing the object's rotation to x 90° and z90° puts the plane oriented correctly but leaves some very weird geometric patterns showing on the surface (see screen shot).

I needed to change the Y rotation by .1° to get everything smoothed out.

Is this all intended behavior? Shouldn't the infinite plane be oriented along the X axis so it lies flat on the ground plane by default?

Additionally I'm getting some very bad performance on some files in viewport rendering with an infinite place active - even though I have a separate GPU dedicated to just the viewport.

For me rotating the plane to:

X:90
Y:0
Z:1

Gives proper result. Strange but I suppose it's a bug.

J.C wrote:For me rotating the plane to:
X:90
Y:0
Z:1
Gives proper result. Strange but I suppose it's a bug.

Yes better settings.

Still issues with the infinite plane in Blender though. I can't get the infinite plane rendering correctly when panning a full 360 degrees. It seems as if the back side of the plane kind of gets cut off - it appears darker and shadows of objects do not render on it. Contrast that with the way the infinite plane works in stand alone. I will also post this in the bug section.