Thank you for your comment and your question. Can you explain a little bit more what you want to do exactly? Something to make the edges of your seem used or even scratched? If you go for the used look, it is part of the shader, you would mix that in on the principled with roughness variation and maybe loss in transmission. It really depends on how strong you want the effect to be. I personally would rather use weight paint or vertex paint on the glasses verts to get good control of the shader effect. Then bring those in with the Attributes node. Though this can of course also be done with the usual blender dirt setups. Cheers, Raphael

Hey there and thank you very much for your comment. There are 100 ways to add decals... well at least 3-4 I mad a decal video before. This one is, as it's called about Aged / Weathered decals. Probably still not as simple to use then the decals from Corona / Vray, but not as complicated as this here either. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKSQZIlufN19jJI P.s. in the following versions Octane also get's its simplified decal system. I have not looked in to it yet, but I am looking forward to 🙌

Hey there and thank you for your comment and your question. You are probably experiencing this because of your Voxel Size setting. If you make it smaller, you get a better representation of the objects shape. Note though if you make it too small it costs a lot of resources. I hope this was it. Cheers and a good start into this week 🙌

@ thank you so much!

@@simoneventuri You are very welcome!

Thank you for your comment and your question! I unfortunately can't think of a method to do multiple of those at once. But I might be overlooking something.

@ yeah. I used your method by putting them one by one into the diffusion. Weirdly they have some aov like opacity but not for normals. Seems simple enough as it just projects the normals in the right place like an image but sadly not an option

@@collectiveunconscious3d Hmmm, there should be a "Normal (Tangent)" AOV that holds your Normals that you can bake out. It also displays the unevenness caused by bump. Maybe not what you wanted. So your method might still be the best.

You are very welcome 🥳

Deciliation for everyone. NOW 🔊 😂

Thank you very much. About your question... Can you describe that a bit more detailed. I am having trouble understanding what you mean. It's probably some kind of thin film effect?

@@SilverwingVFX Yes, similar to the mask worn by fighter pilots, the helmet mask worn by skiers, I am the translation software may not be accurate

Hey Vladan, ha ha ha. Thank you for not being asleep 🙌 Side Node: This only works on front- and backfacing polys. So it would not work on the backside of objects like the spheres because all the normals are outside facing. Shallow Surfaces: Yeah. This indeed can be a problem. You can either scale down the spherical field in the Z- Direction by scaling the Null in that direction. Or you can use another, more fitting field, like e.g. the planar field. I just figured using and explaining that might be a bit too complicated for the tut and since I already gave the fields idea, people can be creative and experiment. Blur: Bluring things is mostly connected to rendering overhead. It's not a one time thing like in a image editing app. While there are OSL scripts that do that by shuffling around the UVs or projection coordinates for each sample to optically achieve the same, it will have problems getting the same effect down the pipeline. Because of it's sampled nature it does not work with bump and other effects. It's always best to have the blurred version come in as pixels. I hope those explanations helped 😇 I wish you a great Tuesday and fantastic time ahead!

@@SilverwingVFX well, i asked for it... the answer is a quick-tip on its own.. got the point of making it quick, however i still insist that it might not be realtime-ish, it could be baked (cooked). For sure Ahmet tried it. Once again thanks for the tut. BTW you did not look tired at all.

@@vladan.Poison Ha ha yeah. Might be worth a quick tip. About the Blur. Yeah I think using the bake node after the blur will do the trick.

Hey there and thank you for your comment. I know what you mean. I think the 20 Min. in length are just because I like to explain every little bit and also have a couple of bonuses 😇 I am using Blender too and like the same thing about it. The future will tell how the progress of all those 3D applications will pan out.

@@SilverwingVFX yeah sure. In the next 10 years there is no doubt Blender will become industry standard (well in advertising) as us older gen C4D users will phase out, and every new kid these days is choosing to learn Blender than C4D as it's free, its progressing faster and easier to do so many things with, so only natural that once the industry is full of blender users, studios will start moving their workflows over. Well that's how I see it anyways. We're a dieing breed haha. But keep up the tutorials !

Oh, dann mal viel Erfolg und gutes Gelingen auf der anderen Seite 🙌 Freut mich zu hören, dass ich Dich in der Octane Zeit mit den Videos unterstützen konnte. Ich hoffe, Du findest einen ähnlichen Kanal für RS!

You are very welcome ✨

Oh, thanks. Glad you like it!

You are very welcome. Glad to be of help 🙌

Hey K kokook, thank you very much for your comment and your message. I am sorry to hear you have problems with Patreon. I see that in my stats a lot that people just drop out. Must be a thing there... Are you asking if I could use KZbin memberships and split it into the same tiers as Patreon? I honestly have not tinkered around with KZbin Memberships yet but it might be a good idea to inform myself about the possibilities now. Thank you for informing me and for dealing with all those hurdles trying to support me. I really appreciate it!

Hey Bruh (catchy name ha ha) Thank you very much for your nice comment. All the best for your engineering degree! Must be hard to work towards a degree as well as doing 3D animation. Kudos to you! Also kudos for jumping on that black Friday deal. It's a good one. I got mine too for this Year 🙌 I really appreciate that you want to support me. But please look after yourself first and only spend money if you really have it! I am happy to provide tutorials to you and the community and love to hear that they are well received. Cheers and a fantastic start into the week to you and happy rendering! Raphael

Ha ha ha. It was literally the same for me when I found out 🙌

Indeed. Unfortunately Blender does not have the material Tag stacking like in C4D. But you can use Blend / Composite materials and add a layer there for the decal. Then it should work the same as in C4D.

Thank you very much for comment. I wish you a good journey with RedShift. Thank you for still being interested in my videos 🙌 I really appreciate it. Don't hold your breath though about Redshift Videos 😇 as I am not planning to cover the renderer any time soon 😬

🙏 Thank you!

Hmmm, if you have the right OCIO it should definitely work. I had it a couple of times that in "Settings" "Color Management" the checkbox for "Use other config file" was not ticked and therefore the setting was not loaded. Maybe check that. Other then that. Maybe re-download your AgX OCIO again and try once more.

@@SilverwingVFX Thanks so much for your quick reply and advice. I eventually found that the issue was caused by a special character in the folder name, which led to the error.

​@@lee-eliot Ahhh, super glad you got it resolved 🙌 And thank you for reporting back. It's good to know that special characters can break it. I will remember that if I get the same questions from someone else ✨ Cheers and a great Tuesday to you!

It's a general problem since the renderer has to put together multiple maps and does not know the users intend how to mix the displacement. Right now it's possible only inside a octane Blend / Composite material. So instead of stacking with C4Ds Material system like I show it in the tut, you would need to use a Blend Material and put the decal on different material layers. When it comes to the Displacement you would have to use the brick depth map in the output (where the materials are bundled) So it is applied to all the mixed textures. Therefore you could move your decal over the displaced surface. If you however intend for the decal to have displacement on its own you would have to add that to the depth maps nodetree. But remember, that Texture Displacement for now does not support non UV maps. So you would have to go with Vertex Displacement. In Octane 2025 they are working on a revamped, much better Texture Displacement system that is more robust and supposedly also works with mixed inputs. So extra displacement for the decal becomes possible without wasting much resources on Vertex Displacement in the future!

@ wow! Thank you for such amazing in-depth reply Silverwing! Really appreciate it!!😀 time for me to start using the comp / mix materials more😅

Ohhh thank you. Yeah I though. Hey, that should work.... and surprisingly it did 🤯

Hey AMI. Thank you very much. Great to hear that you like the method. It also has it's limits. But it otherwise solid. I used it mostly for static objects...

Thank you. Great to hear that it's super hand to you 🎉 And thank you very much ✨📽️✨

Thank you very much for your comment and your suggestion! The approach I am mostly taking is to think about how stuff like this works in reality. So with those swirls, in reality it's thousands upon thousands of microscopic scratches in the coating layer of the paint going in all directions. So the light glints off if them at the right angle. Ans since there are so many, you get a circle around the actual reflection angle. I would first try to recreate it realistically, but that would require very high res scratch maps and might be a bit much for sampling the material. Another approach would be to use anisotropy in the direction of the scratches, this will probably help with rendering the otherwise intense mall bump detail... I will think about whether I can make a tut out of this. Of course as this is just on top of my head for now, I would have to do a little research first.

Thank you very much 🙌 And ha ha ha. Yes. German compound words are the best 🥳

Valid approach. I have not looked into it. But hopefully it is a easy to use, well made solution!

Oh, that is super nice to hear ✨🙌 I appreciate it a lot!

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Oh also 🥇

Thank you very much. Yeah Otoy added that to octane in the mean time. C4D Particles were really new when I made the tut. Back then there was no support of the Octane Tag! I am going to Pin your comment as this might be useful for others 🙌🙌

@@SilverwingVFX Okay, thanks, that was the intention, I thought it might be useful for someone like me who didn't know there had been this update. Thanks for the great tuts.

If I remember correctly the lights I am using are IES lights. So yes, it also applies to IES lights 🙌

@@SilverwingVFX I always had ai lights on but never thought about it. so thanks for clarifying it here ;)

Thank you very much. Glad you like it 🙌

Late reply but thank you very much for your comment and all your compliments 🥰 About the OSL offset script: I agree that this should be built in functionality but Otoy is very slow realizing quality of life improvements like this. I always have the feeling that the programmers do not know the exact intent for stuff like this and therefore it's hard for them to program something exactly to the point. In Octane 2025.1 there are some nodes that finally could replace the script. In the meantime there are some nodes that can do parts of it and in the new announced Octane 2025.1 they have even more of that. So maybe it will be finally obsolete when Octane 2025.1 arrives. I have been lobbying for a really long time for this. I hope it is, but there is a possibility that it is not completely obsolete even then. I will have to investigate and test.

Hey there and thank you for your comment. You have a hefty machine there 🙌 Is the 4.1. hinting at the Octane version. If so, then this would not work as your 30 series GPUs are too new and not supported by older versions of Octane. The latest version you can use on the 30 series GPUs is Octane 2021.1. If you however using a newer version of Octane: If the GPUs are not showing, then I guess this is something driver or hardware related. Make sure the GPUs are showing in your device manager and do not have a orange / yellow triangle next to them. In such a situation the first thing I would, as you also suggested, re-install the driver. The current recommended one is Nvidia Studio 552.22 Cheers and fingers crossed you can get it sorted.

@@SilverwingVFX Hey dude! So to update: I have Octane 2024 latest version on both machines as of today. Sorry if I didn't clarift properly haha. Still having the same issue with updated drivers. The daemon seems to be running fine on the "slave" PC. I just get nothing showing up on the working Laptop I'm trying to use! What is really weird is that I can't enter my password into the daemon window? I enter the email and that's fine but the password doesn't seem to allow you to type anything! I have both an octane enterprise lisence and a studio+ both from to the same account and on both machines as that is the only way I could log into the the daemon and still use octane. 2 lisences linked to the same account wouldn't cause an issue would it? Let me know if you have any tips! Supposed to be going to the US in a few weeks and ideally need this up and running! :/ Much love <3

Thank you very much darek, It's definitely a interesting idea. The thing is that I am not really versed with render-farms. The only one I use is your aforementioned RenderNetwork. So I unfortunately can't speak about other farms yet 😇

You are very welcome 🙌

Thank you very much. I really appreciate it. About your question. Can you elaborate how the colors are not correct? Do you get a color shift Or a Gamma shift? If stuff is not set up correctly sometimes it's just the usual gamma shift from linear to sRGB that is interpreted wrong. If you are working in ACES then of course the ACES transform will also be applied to your bake. You usually don't want a ACES transform on your bake since you want to keep it sRGB. Maybe this already helps 🤞

@@SilverwingVFX Yes, I am working in ACES, but the colors shouldn't be this far off. I just made some simple rock-like texture just to test out the baking camera, which consists of mostly brown hues. But when viewing it through the baking camera, the hues are all pinkish. Very strange. I'll trying doing it all in sRGB to see if anything changes.

Just an update, doing it in sRGB did the trick! Thanks for the pointers as always!

@@MrSunamo Thank you very much for your answer before and your feedback. It's always valuable to get it so I know what worked and what did not 🙌 I probably need to do some tests figuring out how "distorted" the ACES transform looks on the Diffuse Filter. Cheers, I am happy it worked in the end!

Hmmm. I am guessing you are using DaVinci. Sorry, I am not familiar with the Da-Vinci Workflow. I am just using Fusion Studio (Fusion Standalone)😇

This is just a guess, if you are working in DaVinci and already have setup the colors in the project. Then you should not need to load or alter any color inside the fusion workspace. Though I might be wrong. But it would make sense since the color workflow is encapsulated by the DaVinci color management 🤔

@@SilverwingVFX Ah - I didn't realize you were using Fusion standalone. I've since researched my issue further and it's a common problem that doesn't seem to have a solution. You set the correct colour management in the project prefs - config 1.2 / Acescg /rec709 etc. and it looks fine in edit and colour modes but is completely wrong in Fusion mode. To get it looking correct you have to disable colour management in the project prefs and do what you did on the Fusion page but of course it now looks wrong in both edit and colour modes. It's annoying as shit. Thanks for replying though - been a fan since way, way back.

Hey Göran, thank you very much for your comment as well as your question. The colors you see in octane is just a preview to better see the different mattes as a user. The actual info in the file is different. I am not sure about the reason you don't see the Crypto in AE though. Here are a couple of troubleshooting tips: Make sure you save to EXRs through the Octane output and select "EXR Octane" as output option. Cryptomatte only works in EXRs though Octanes output! Make sure your output in the Octane Settings is set to "All Objects Movable" if this is not set, then it might be that the scene geometry is baked together for Rendering, therefore making it impossible to get separated objects in the Crypto for example. Try rendering single layer EXRs first and see if that works in AE. I personally like single layer EXRs more. But if you want to go with Multi Layer EXRs, after you verified that it works with single layer, you can try multilayer and see if it works there too. There are certainly a lot more things that can cause the Cryptomatte not to work. But those are the things that came to mind. I hope that those help you to get it working. Cheers and happy rendering!

@@SilverwingVFX Thanks! Yeah, that I understand but when binging the cryptomatte into Ae and trying to use the crryptomatte plugin, I gett a message saying the is no information in the file.

​@@goranthoren5522 Then likely there is no info there. Can you explain to me, how you get the cryptomatte into After Effects? What I tried to say with the comment before, if your AE Crypto Plugin is not broken, then it's probably somewhere around the Choice of Cryptomatte, Output setup, Export, File Format and Handling. What I have not asked before. Is your AE set to 32bit? This could also be a stumbling block.

@@SilverwingVFX Thanks for taking the time to answer! I just import the cryptomatte AOV and apply the cryptomatte plugin. I have tried different crypromatte modes but they all come out the same. First I thought it could have something to do with the scene which contains a lot of object tags but I tried it on a simple scene with just a cube and the same result, just a green cryptomatte. The strange thing is that it looks just fine in the IPR but as soon as it renders, the result is green.

​@@goranthoren5522 Hmm, I am running out of Ideas what it could be here. I have made a test just now and it works for me correctly With C4D 2025.0.2 and Octane 2024.1_R3 😇 If you are using DWAB compression in your EXRs, could you try switch to ZIP for example and see if that works. I had it in the past with older versions of Octane (around 2021) that DWAB was not working properly.

Hey Omar, suoper nice seeing your comment and your positive impression here. I am thinking of a timeline tutorial though I am not the animator 😇

Ha ha ha, I forget that I said that. Thank you for reminding me 😇

@Wouldn’t have you any other way :) I bought Rizom, and it’s great.

Ha ha ha. Get ready to be time-sampled ✨⏲✨ Thank youuuu!

Thank you for your comment and your suggestion. I will think about it. But generally it should be rather similar in Cycles then shown in Octane here 😇

@@SilverwingVFXyes it could be similar but I doesn’t understand Cinema 4D and Octane …

Thank you. Fantastic to hear that you liked it!

Thank you. It's one of my slower burn videos. The more happy I am that you liked it!