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Background Object with C4D Gradient turns white?
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:19 pm
by muchogrande
Hi, I'm trying to use an Octane gradient on the C4D Background object - but it just turns white. I have the Octane gradient-based material setup as I like and it works on 3D objects - but if I apply it to the C4D Background object the background just goes white. I was using the default C4D gradient and it was working as expected - but seemed to result it a lot of crashes. Any ideas? Or is there another way to use an octane material as a camera-frame sized background?
Re: Background Object with C4D Gradient turns white?
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 9:15 pm
by aoktar
Hi,
You cannot use Octane shaders in background object. Because it's an exceptional feature and sampling in CPU. Use C4D's gradient and its native shaders.
Re: Background Object with C4D Gradient turns white?
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 9:17 pm
by muchogrande
Ok, thanks. I am finding a lot of instability (crashes) using the C4D shaders though.. any tips on avoiding that?
Re: Background Object with C4D Gradient turns white?
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 9:59 pm
by aoktar
muchogrande wrote:Ok, thanks. I am finding a lot of instability (crashes) using the C4D shaders though.. any tips on avoiding that?
Increase cpu cores under "c4d shaders"
Re: Background Object with C4D Gradient turns white?
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 11:34 pm
by muchogrande
Ok thanks!
Re: Background Object with C4D Gradient turns white?
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 7:33 am
by bepeg4d
Hi,
instead of the c4d Background object, please try with the Visible Environment node, it gives you much more options, and works with any kind of of Octane node.
Please have a look at these OSL Projection nodes for the Environment and Camera node:
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=65575
Or at this Xpresso version:
viewtopic.php?f=73&t=63807
ciao Beppe