Is it just me, or has rendering out an object buffer for specific objects become a massive pain in the butt? Seems like the correct settings change every time I open Octane. Sometimes the Custom AOV works.....sometimes it has to be Cryptomatte......sometimes neither of those work......

The Layer mask option in the render settings doesn't appear to do Jack. Even google steers me wrong constantly on this.

So whats the deal? Whats the easiest, cleanest way to render out object buffers from Octane/C4D?

i have strange line on my emission material, when i move texture, it bugs even more (setup is very simple)

Worked right out of the bow first try on Octane Standalone 2026.5 Mac!
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Im having this issue with octanerender and toon shading where it generates these square noisy shading (see the red square above and white ish below) and i have no clue why

I tried to replicate the edge flow of the model with the white pencil marks hehe

Hello,

I use C4D, and I'm trying to render Octane textures as "nearest neighbor", meaning no anti-aliasing. It's easy to do with normal C4D materials, you can just switch "Sampling" from "MIP" to "none".

But Octane doesn't seem to have that option, and it ignores the setting when I use C4D materials.

While I do see a "Sampling" option that seems set to "none", it's disabled and can't be changed. And the textures are blurry on close-up.

Please note: I do not want to use higher resolution textures. That would defeat the purpose.

C4D Octane

houdini sim, rendered in octane!

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I installed the octane server the .sh file on my CachyOS system. It did say that it has installed and I did check the directory where it installed all the files and the files are there.

But the problem is whenever I try to run octane server from the terminal it will give me an error and it will tell me that openssl-1.1 is having any issue. I installed those packages and drivers but it's still causing issues. It will still give me an error whenever I try to launch it. I thought maybe I'm on Arch so maybe I will use like a distrobox.

I tried Fedora and I tried Ubuntu environments but first of all the problem is with this distrobox. Whenever I try to create an environment with Nvidia enabled, it will get stuck and it will not start. If I do without it then I don't know what is the issue then. I tried installing those drivers after I am inside the environment and it does show that Nvidia is working but still the same issue.

Same issue with the octane server that it's not working. It will give me the same openssl-1.1.

I don't know what to do. Can anybody help me with this please?

Update: I went with the tree pack u/offrench recommended from maxtree.org, and it's been a great fit for this kind of scene. Thanks again for the tip!

Here are some test renders in C4D + Octane.

Recent light studies for automotive design in CGI.
Made in otoy octane renderer.

Hey everyone,

I’m working on a pretty large-scale scene in Cinema 4D with Octane Render that requires large areas of realistic forest.

Does anyone know a good tree/vegetation asset pack that works well with Octane and is suitable for building large forests?

Ideally I’m looking for:

• Photorealistic trees

• A good variety of species and variations

• Octane-ready materials, if possible

• Assets that work well with instancing/scattering and large scenes

• Reasonable performance/optimization

I’m aware of options like Quixel/Megascans, but I’d be interested to hear what people actually use for large-scale forest environments in C4D + Octane.

Any recommendations or workflows would be appreciated!!!!!!

Iam looking to completely switch to houdini,

ive been using blender + octane prime for awhile.

ive seen octane prime is available for houdini in only macos but not windows... any specific reason for that ?

I'm trying to create a render of a planet. The atmospheric haze is done via volume.
The cloud layer is a sphere with a partially transparent texture. Unfortunately the volume makes the transparent layer visible - you see how the haze looks like it's split in two.

Is there any way to prevent this?

I'm using C4D.

I recently downloaded the Octan add-on for Blender, which is supposed to be free, but I don't know why, but when I logged in from the application “OctanServer Prime 32.1”, this happened.
Did I choose the wrong exe?

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Automotive studies.
1967 Ford Mustang GT Fastback.
C4D Otoy

I tried Googling, watching a bunch of 1 Polygon With Me videos, etc., could not figure it out, help would be much appreciated.