New Standard Volume shader similar to that in Arnold The anisotropic reflection channel in the specular and coating layers of the new material also accepts texture maps as inputs, and subsurface scattering is now defined by two separate layers rather than one. Otoy has also updated the way that individual layers are implemented compared to OctaneRender’s existing Universal Material, including an Oren-Nayar BRDF to represent diffuse roughness more accurately.

Using the new ubermaterial for shading should ensure greater visual parity between output from OctaneRender and other renderers that support the specification, like Arnold. Other changes include a layered Standard Surface material based on the Autodesk Standard Surface spec. You can see side-by-side comparison images with OctaneRender’s existing PMC and path tracing kernels in this forum thread. The new kernel uses a “novel combination of GPU photon mapping and path guiding” to generate sharp, non-noisy caustics even at very low sample counts. New features in OctaneRender 2022.1 include a new photon tracing kernel, which Otoy describes as making rendering caustics “about 1000x faster ” than the previous implementation. Please, also completely disable the Intel GPU in Octane Settings/Devices panel, also for Tonemap, if present, and render only with AMD GPU for now.New photon tracing kernel makes rendering caustics ‘nearly free’

Please, also share a screenshot like this one, that shows both the c4doctane directory opened, and the entire installation path, thanks: You also need to allow the c4doctane plugin and library in System Preferences/Security and Privacy panel, and restart C4D a couple of times.Īfter installation, please, go to c4d menu Extensions/Console, (Shift+F10), and share a complete screenshot of the panel, thanks.

plugins/c4doctane directory.įor C4D S24, you need to keep the R23.xdlib file, and remove the other. Note that you always need to remove from the c4doctane folder, all the unnecessary c4doctane-R2X.xdlib files not related with R2X specific version, and leave only one c4doctane-R2X.xdlib file in. R23, or S24 for now.įor a correct installation of c4doctane plugin, firstly you need to update your Maxon C4D to the latest build, (R20.057, R21.155, S22.118, R23.110, S24.111), or the plugin will not be correctly loaded, please go to c4d menu Help/Check for updates. C4D R25 is not supported under Big Sur yet, please use R21, S22.

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