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Good morning all,

Is there such a window in octane where i can view all of my light sources and there relative sample rates in one place?

I currently have to write down/ try and remember them all. Not a major headache day to day but on projects with lots of lights its difficult to balance.

Thanks!

AK

You should be able to do something using the "Show Octane Node Graph" under the Octane Dialog>Help>Show Octane Node Graph. That's pretty clunky, though, with the actual sample rate on the emissive material properties buried five or six levels down the hierarchy.

I think the easiest way is to use Xpresso to drive the Sampling levels on all the desired lights from one location. I like to use Nulls with custom User Data channels to control this sort of thing. You can certainly get a whole lot fancier in Xpresso, but simpler is usually better.

Hi thanks for your reply

Yer i have done it that way but its more time consuming than id hoped! I'm hoping to find/ make a solution i can reuse, for example making a null with a object list user data and once the lights are dropped in it reads out the sampling rates of each/ shared properties.

It will be a good study I think in either xpresso or python!

Thanks

AK