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Hello,

Is there any way for refractive (transmissive) materials to refract a background object?

I'm attaching two different images, one with the desired result and another with what I get with octane render (which refracts octane's daylight object)

Desired result with c4d's standard renderer (you can see buildings refracted): Octane render refracting daylight object instead of background: I'm on Octane render 2020.1.2 and C4D R21.
I've tried both using a native material for the background and an octane material.

Hi,
add another Texture Environment node and change the type to Visible, instead or Primary, in this way you can use it for Backplate, Reflections, and/or Refractions:
http://www.aoktar.com/octane/OctaneDaylight.html
ciao Beppe

bepeg4d wrote:Hi,
add another Texture Environment node and change the type to Visible, instead or Primary, in this way you can use it for Backplate, Reflections, and/or Refractions:
http://www.aoktar.com/octane/OctaneDaylight.html
ciao Beppe

Thank you Beppe, I did that and it allowed the material to refract the texture environment node behind it, however using the texture enviroment node, my backplate projects into a sphere, distorting it, What I'm looking for is a solution where my backplate projects to a flat plane, with "frontal" projection and not reacting to camera movement, such as with c4d's background object. Is there anyway to achieve this ?

This is what I'm getting with your advice:

Try with the following cameraMap_environment.osl projection node:
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=65575&p=357327&hil ... on#p331877
ciao Beppe