Octane Render Photon Tracing For Blender 3.2 | New Caustics Render Kernel

This video looks at rendering caustics in Octane Render using the most recent photon tracing kernel. I have provided project downloads and a general step by step instructional video covering the basics including metallics, glass and dispersion effects.
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[@0ubo]

I'd love to see more Octane videos / tutorials. As a Blender novice, jumping from Cycles to Octane was a bit rough, but following your videos made it much smoother. 👌

[@djtutorialscgi]

Glad to hear! Thank you for the compliment.

[@ANeird]

Hey man, I really appreciate you for doing these follow alongs, you are actually a hero

[@sealishproductions]

This is huge

[@djtutorialscgi]

Indeed! It’s a big leap forward

[@brudertofu]

very helpful, thanks!

[@Mr_Steve3D]

Very cool, thx for this1

[@djtutorialscgi]

Of course! Hope it was useful.

[@Mr_Steve3D]

@@djtutorialscgi It was :)

[@ak24789]

great video!! do you think i can get an underwater scene with octane?

[@djtutorialscgi]

Yes. I’ve already tried it out and it’s totally doable.

[@DA_MIAN_IS_HERE]

Hi thanks for this video, I am not really using caustics but is really insightful. Do you have any resource for how to practically optimize high specular scene renderings in Octane Blender?

[@djtutorialscgi]

Hi there- are some ways to do this, yes. Generally you want to change the light paths to just be as many as possible to get the detail you’re looking for and push small point lights really high to get as much specular refraction/light effects as possible. There is also a mode that you can turn on which mixes approximation rendering and light path rendering. I don’t have it open at the moment but it’s in the render properties panel.

[@DA_MIAN_IS_HERE]

@@djtutorialscgi Appreciate your reply! I will look for it. If you bump into that option would be great to know so I find it faster :)

[@ssaini343]

thanks a lot for making this video. it is super helpful!

[@djtutorialscgi]

Of course! Thanks!

[@kaofrank7364]

i'm really missing luxcore,'cause they wont update any more,so here i am,learning octane instead.

[@djtutorialscgi]

There’s dev builds that are updated that should still work with Blender.

[@haiuong7246]

Are u using GPU to render caustic in this video?

[@djtutorialscgi]

Yes

[@haiuong7246]

@@djtutorialscgi I use Vray GPU and it doesn't have caustic rendering, so envious of Octane

[@farrasaris5394]

Did Octane have denoiser for Blender?

[@djtutorialscgi]

Yes

[@farrasaris5394]

@@djtutorialscgi Thank you.

[@basspig]

When I checked the octane render site I see that it's for blender 2.83 a version that's very old.

[@djtutorialscgi]

No- it uses newer versions. I believe the one I have right now is 3.2 for Octane.

[@julianolisboa]

@@djtutorialscgi No, the current version is 3.3.1

[@djtutorialscgi]

@@julianolisboa ah. Yeah I wasn’t paying too much attention but I new it was at least 3.2

[@azerabdurrahimov9987]

Hı,l want learn to do visualization for my jewelry models, can you teach me.

[@djtutorialscgi]

Hello- I do offer private sessions through my Patreon if that’s what you were thinking. Otherwise, I produce videos when I can on subjects I think are needed or interesting.

[@basspig]

"Use of the software is available only while online, connected via the internet to the OctaneRender licensing server". Well that just kills it for me. All of my work machines are not connected to the internet.

[@djtutorialscgi]

Aw sorry about that :/

[@MET87]

Luxcore has been doing this for ages.

[@djtutorialscgi]

Indeed.

[@maxmaxed2887]

Octane is $23/month, I'll stick to LuxCore

[@djtutorialscgi]

There’s a free version :)

[@maxmaxed2887]

@@djtutorialscgi ah you know I will still stick to luxcore :) it rocks