5 Tips I Wish I Knew Before Learning Octane | Greyscalegorilla Beginner Series

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[@Greyscalegorilla]

What is your best Octane Tip?

[@BADBILLY]

One of the biggest tips that can save you days trying to problem solve: If textures arent loading/ rendering (especially in bigger scenes) - Save project with assets > (if prompt asks you to locate any texture maps, do so) Close project and open your newly saved file.

[@BADBILLY]

If trying to mix materials for deformer, use the bake textue node.

[@cromyclub]

if you are using c4d base shaders, remember to up the scale in the octane settings so they dont look pixelated

[@cemgulpunk]

In Live Viewer options, turn off material previews to gain some extra speed while working with parameters. It also helps prevent some crashes.

[@chrismacmillan2932]

Drag textures from an explorer/finder window straight into the node editor to make image textures! Also just use the node editor in general. It saves a lot of clicks. Who's got time for all them clicks?

[@Lowenmensch408]

Most important tip: enable that autosave when you start using Octane in C4D :P

[@Thodos]

Or constantly spam Ctrl + S when making any changes)

[@kasperrubin5754]

Until you learn to optimize your scene so it stops crashing ;)

[@doom9344]

My best tip is that use filter size : 1.5 A natural pixel feel similar to redshift is created, and the artificial feel of octane disappears.

[@chrismacmillan2932]

Great idea with the multiple skies. I think the main reason your PT looks better is that the diffuse samples are higher than in your DL kernel. Get those diffuse passes up in direct lighting and you'll start filling in those shadows for less render bucks.

[@elysiumeclogue5737]

The most important thing is make sure your render seating "Image color profile" is"SRGB" and Tonemap type is "Tonemaped" . otherwise your output will not be the same as your render window looks. It bothers a lot lot lot lot people.

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Good one. That one is important!

[@jman7093]

Why would you want to render out clamped sRGB images from 3D? Linear is always better

[@elysiumeclogue5737]

@@jman7093 We're not talking about the same thing bro. You will know what i mean one day

[@jman7093]

@@elysiumeclogue5737 www.aoktar.com/octane/OCTANE%20HELP%20MANUAL.html?Beauty%20Passes.htm

[@bulba1561]

@@jman7093 nononon my friend, ACES is the way to go ;)

[@lagrinta9689]

I just do 1 push-up every time nick try to sell something in a commercial disguised as a tutorial(plus,plus,plus,plus,+_+)

[@MrMadvillan]

it’s a marketing Kline Bottle

[@CatrickSwayze99]

Im a bit sad that GSG became this huge sell out. I understand we all need to pay the bills and knowledge cant be all free but nowadays every GSG "tutorial" feels like x-minutes of straight in your face advertising with minimal creative value.

[@ainnelrosirrosias3338]

@@CatrickSwayze99 but he was not aware about octane pathracing until david tought him..

[@bsways]

@@CatrickSwayze99 yeah same. Was great when it was one of the few sites left where you could learn so much for free plus buy perpetual licensing of stuff. I hate all this subscription crap that’s happened. It’s made it all very unaffordable if you’re just a hobbyist and not making tons of money but the companies don’t give a sh*t. All they care about is $$$. There are so many different subscriptions that you need now and they are all joining up and colluding to force people into signing up. The only company I’ve noticed that even mentions hobbyists is ‘world creator’. They have a special price for non commercial users.

[@GeorgeWilliams-cj9et]

Just started on Octane myself. First tip literally saved me a humongous headache. Thank you!

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Happy to help. That one was messing me up big time.

[@TreyTrimble]

My tip would be when working with neon lights or such. In Camera Imager using the "Saturate to White" slider is sometimes KEY. :)

[@ashishauti07]

the silly thing i most struggled with was the lock button on octane render its used for locking resolution then you can zoom out; there's a number menu on right side, so now you can look at how your render is gonna look I mean res

[@bhushankandalkar3104]

Great tutorial !! I was doing wrong untill I watched this 😆

[@strangehelix4196]

Amazing as always thanks for the tips nick love ur vids!

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Glad you like them! Thanks for watching!

[@gddeluxe2936]

A very good Tip if you have a outdoor Scene with the "Octane Sky" and "Octane Daylight". Check the Checkbox in the Daylight Tag to combine your HDRI Map of the Octane Sky and your Sunlight of the Octane Daylight. Match the sun of your HDRI and Daylight and connect their RotX (North Offset in Daylight) in XPresso Node so you can rotate them with just one slider. Hope that helps somebody out.

[@mejoratuportfolio5990]

thanks man, awesome

[@stellar_3d_academy747]

Which software is best for rendering jewelry... octane or redshift?

[@thaianhnguyen8248]

How can you get this model?

[@MrCalmwaters112]

Did I just watch a 12 minute plug?

[@Gromic2k]

it's a 12 minutes ad

[@gddeluxe2936]

Another Issue of the LiveDB.. Sometimes (its random) Octane Plugin is crashing when u want to download Materials from the LiveDB so always save your Work before entering LiveDB! Greetings from Germany

[@michaelroberts8397]

Should I start with redshift or octane?

[@paulatreides6711]

i wish some of your awesome kit like light kit pro or hdri brwser would be available for blender haha ,there is literally nothing for octane blender in terms of plugins and that sucks .

[@fabienl9835]

Octane is really amazing BUT i still have an issue i can t resolve... Any tips on how exclude object or material from being visible in refraction ? I know it s a unbiaised render engine but if there s a way to solve the problem that would be awesome. Thanks !

[@Greyscalegorilla]

I don't think that's possible with Octane. Cheers.

[@sicfxmusic]

5x Spoiler alerts if you're about to purchase GSG+!!!!

[@ricardograndio9934]

I was just trying to solve that issue with hdri that it almost drive me nuts

[@rw3452]

Link to training even when logged in goes only to your website? Can you help?

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Sorry to hear. Be sure you hit up customer support. They will make sure you are all set up. support.greyscalegorilla.com/

[@emmanuelchacon8900]

Mac Mini M1 Render Farm... that's what I've been wondering lately (For Arnold of course). Ask Chad for his thoughts, please.

[@officialthixo8838]

omg, this the solution for my material problem... i was searching years for a solution and almost freaked out why its all black if i download my materials. thank you so much!

[@shoreydesigns3064]

Do have any training with Octane in Houdini ?

[@vladyslavlavrenov9167]

Octane in Houdini is crap

[@rudineumerkel7627]

have you tried out Octane X? What do you think?

[@LoganPinney]

The new training by David Ariew is easiy the best training offered on plus. Come for the RS training, STAY for the Octane 😎🤟 Otoy is bringing the fire!!!

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Thanks Logan!! Appreciate it.

[@octanejesus]

Great tips Nick!!

[@MotionPunk]

Great tips David :D

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Thanks for the awesome training, David. Cheers!

[@Dolphineight]

Hi David, Thanks for the tutorial in "Plus", just learned something I don't know!

[@octanejesus]

Dolphin eight glad to hear it!

[@nunomota9838]

why i think octane for c4d is better than 3dmax,blender etc??

[@zfendi8922]

now you're full fledged PC user :)

[@Dolphineight]

Big fan from Hong Kong 😄 Thank you~ we were waiting for more Octane tutorial when your Guide to RedShift just came out 🤣🤣🤣 Even tho we are not beginners now, thanks for the tips. And RedShift is great, but we think Octane much more convenience 😛

[@bill-bergen]

Can we all stop down and talk about how perfect Nicks hair and beard is? Which Octane setting do I tweak to get that?

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Thanks! Plugin coming soon! :)

[@Dominic-du4ow]

How can I hide HDRI image from the render?

[@Vidistudios]

Activate Alpha Channel in the Octane settings

[@bsways]

Tip 6 - if you plan on using octane to render don’t apply C4D materials because octane won’t render many of them if they have multiple shaders etc. You then have to back track and figure out which ones are making the render quit. This was happening to me when I first started using it and I had to do a lot of searching in my scene and online to get to the bottom of it. I actually hate octane materials. The manager is slow and laggy and it’s just not beginner friendly with all the node editing etc. C4D materials are so much easier.

[@ADADIZZLE]

Is that a Bust of Woody Harrelson?

[@Greyscalegorilla]

I wish!

[@shayansep755]

david who ?

[@lucaspellicer]

Why your render looks so clean with “just” 1000 samples? I need like… 6000 or 8000 to look this clean

[@Greyscalegorilla]

It's very scene dependent. Some things need more samples.

[@BengieOyola]

Hey Nick! You should try Octane X for Mac. It works perfectly fine like Windows :). Now you have an excuse to go back!

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Thanks

[@cyanide227]

Becoming Gorilla for shure )

[@zimonslot]

Octane!? What happened to redshift??

[@Greyscalegorilla]

We support all three major renderers here at Greyscalegorilla. Gotta use em all.

[@aspizak]

lol, longest ad ever. :/

[@andreybtr301]

that example head looks creepy🌚

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Thanks?

[@ainnelrosirrosias3338]

im suprised you was aware of the existence of octane...like really? U didnt know about pathracing? What is this bs...its like saying i didnt knew about my steering location of my car until david tought me..are you even aware you are using octane? :p

[@Monsieurbungle]

What a mess of a video.