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Hey there, i really love the scatter feature of octane. Its really cool to use different shapes on particle simulations. The only downside is that i can't manage to make the particles rotate according to particle attributes and most importantly enable motion blur.

Is there some way to do this?

Hi,
which Octane plugin are you using exactly?

Do you mind to share some screenshots and possibly a simple example scene?

ciao,
Beppe

I'm using the Modo Plugin, but I'm actually talking about octane standalone. I can import alembic particle caches and they render fine with motionblur with the standard sphere primitive. I found out that it's also possible to use the cache with the scatter on surface node, which makes it possible to use your own shapes for the particles. The only downside is that I can't get motionblur to work. In addition i would like to use particle attributes to control the orientation of the scattered meshes.

Edit: https://docs.otoy.com/StandaloneH_STA/S ... urface.htm

Distribution on Particles - This option will distribute the instanced on particles

Here is a sample scene for you:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0hz5icqr ... vbufr&dl=0

Hesekiel2517 wrote:Here is a sample scene for you:

Thanks for the scene. I'm not sure if this is a bug or limitation. We'll look into it.

This is not implemented at this time, it’s a limitation.

Thank you for looking into this. I hope this will be added at some point. Using the scatter on surface node is incredibly fast!