following up, how would you set up rendering different layers in one go? like one render queue, do you have to render each layer seperately?

Hey there Orif and thank you very much for your comment! Oh man, sorry to hear that. In Blender the workflow is that you have to create a object node. In the object node you can link an object. Then you can pipe the transform from the linked object to either the Filed itself or to a XYZ to UVW Projection node. Mayne it is similar in 3Ds?

Thank you very much for your comment and your suggestion. Octane unfortunately is rather limited in that regard, you have to use some workarounds. It's definitely an interesting idea!

Thank you very much for your comment! In Blender it's even more easy actually. If you have created your field node, you will notice it has a "UVW Transform" input. Create a "Object Data" node and connect the "Transform Out" of the "Object Data" to the "UVW Transform" input of the Field node. Last but not least in the Object Data Node, select your Gizmo e.g. a Empty. And there you go. it should now follow the position / rotation of your selected Empty. Unfortunately for Shape Fields I did not find a way to extend the calculated voxels, so the effect on the objects is rather limited and close by. I initially wanted to make a Blender part in the video. But needed to long for the rest of the video so I went out of time 😬

Thank you so much for your detailed response. And thank you for taking the time to record new videos for us. Thanks to them, we save a lot of time. And taking our CG to the next level.

Thank you very much for your comment and your kind words. Great to hear that this workflow overview helped you 🙌 Also nice to hear that you like the render ✨🙌

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Hey there and thank you for your comment and your interesting Idea! It should be possible to manipulate lights with it, e.g. change brightness / color with distance for example (with a spherical falloff) but possibly also direct lighting more with the angular map. Interesting Idea, worth pursuing!

Ohhhh, thank you so much for your nice comment and also of course for becoming a patreon and therefore supporting me. I hugely appreciate it. I usually respond to all my Patreons. I have not come around to you yet 😇

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Very true. It also took a while for me until I picked them up. The plan is it to slowly uncover all the hidden gems of Octane and see how good they work out 🙌

Thank you very much. Great to hear you liked it!

Thank you for your comment! Hmmm. I am not sure if I understand. Could you elaborate on that?

@@SilverwingVFX The angle input expects a float value, and the falloff node produces a float gradient from 0-1. Leaving the falloff node as default in terms of camera ray settings (so the falloff changes by camera perspective/transform and not object transform) and clamping the values to whatever is needed, can be super useful in creating effects that Octane typically struggles with like complex micro details. Suppper thin micro scratches has been the number one thing that took my car materials to the next level (I only know of maybe 3 people doing micro scratches on car pain clear coats), and when looking into them, I noticed that when walking around cars in real life, the scratches seem to orient their light in an anisotropic-way, and this effect can be enhanced/made more obvious through normal maps. Using the camera falloff as the angle to the normal, can get the deep, spectral look of the complex micro scratches that all cars have! As the camera rotates, the normals do as well and bounce the light differently from any perspective. Useful in very small amounts, as is the whole micro scratches effect. I would dive into if you get the chance! Google ‘Car paint micro scratches’ or ‘Webbing scratches on car paint’, and you’ll notice how pretty the real effect is. Super long message but I had some free time :))

And thank you for your comment. I really appreciate you like it 🙏✨

Hey there and thank you very much for your comment and your question. To be able to answer your question could you let me know what workflow you are engaged in. EXR linear sRGB, EXR ACEScg, tonamepped ACES etc. It's really essential to know that, to give detailed feedback ✨

@@SilverwingVFX Thanks for answering, I figured it out, turned on linear, rgb in the octane settings and everything worked

@@TheSchpuntov Ah fantastic! Great to hear you figured it out 🙌

Hey there and thank you for your nice comment. Glad to see you know about the community now ha ha. And yeah. Some community event might be a good idea. I am quite busy at the moment, that would have to wait for a bit. But maybe if I have some more time at hand! Cheers and a great rest of the weekend to you!

And thank you for your nice comment, I really appreciate it!

Thank you so much Alex. Much appreciated!

Hey hey. Hmmm, it should do something. Hard to say what's happening for you. The only thing I can think of is if you have your screen realistically behind a real glass plane. Then the rays you see are not camera rays but refraction rays. If you don't get there and the suggestion of mine is not it, then you can send me your scene via email. You can find my contact data on my webpage.

Thank you very much for your comment! Yea the RaySwitch is pretty awesome and rather versatile ✨

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Ha ha ha, in the midst of the heatwave you have to post Christmas trees. But I definitely appreciate it ✨🎄✨

@@SilverwingVFX It just took me so long to watch your video. 🌨☃

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Ohhhh, thank you very much Dimitris. Also very nice seeing you here 🙏✨

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Thank you so much. Great to read all that positive feedback. Screen shading seems to be on the list of a lot of people! Also great to hear you like the separator audio. I did not know about the word "Arpeggio". So you thought me something today 🙌 My "aha" moment so to speak 😄

Yeah, I feel you. It seems Otoy moved their development resources away from that somehow. Fingers crossed it it gets some love!

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Hey hey. Thank you for your comment and your question. It's called Diffuse Depth. You have to make sure you are either using GI mode in your Direct Lighting or are using the Path Tracing, Photon Tracing or PMC Kernel. The most universal applied kernel is Path Tracing. Usually the Preset is already pretty high with 16 bounces! Hope this helped. If you have more questions, feel free to ask 🙌

@@SilverwingVFX thank you

Thank youuu ✨📺✨ Super awesome to hear that. Also love those RGB emoticons 🙌 ✨✨

Thank you for your comment. Every renderer has its advantages and disadvantages. In Some RS shines in other Octane does. You got me interested how you would do it in RS? Wouldn't you need to create an Area Light first, set its area shape to Mesh and then drag in the screen-mesh in there to make it a light source first to get access to the contribution sliders? And then you'd loose the other attributes of the material as the diffuse and the reflections. Maybe I am thinking over complicated here though 😇

@@SilverwingVFX I think I would make a duplicate of the screen object, and assign a new material with the emission cracked up a lot, and then with the redshift tag on this object I can disable primary rays, receive shadows and so on.. so that we should only see the GI generated by this hidden object. But I'm sure your techniques are more polished ! Cheers man!!

@@andrearusky Thank you very much for taking the time to answer. The funny thing is, that in my original Project, where I built Up my old PC, this was the way I did it 🙌 So I would call it a totally useable solution ✅ Not sure if my method is more polished or just more nerdy ha ha. Cheers and a fantastic rest of the week to you ✨

Great to hear that. Thank you very much 🙌

Oh wow. Thanks. Highly appreciated 🙌✨

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Thank you so much Yassin. Always appreciate your comments. And yeah. I have been working with Lukas again. He composed those. I like them quite a lot my self. And thank you very much for the ✨📺✨

🙌 It has so many use cases. A lot of times, when all other methods fail!

Thank you. I hope those tips were not too simple ha ha 😇

@@SilverwingVFX hahah just complicated enough!

@@BlauwFilms Ha ha ha, well said. I am relieved 😎

Hey Joe, thank you so much for your comment. And yeha, the rayswitch is kind of a magic box. Very versatile in application!