#OCTANE RENDER MAX FULL#

The object layer node supports now a new transform that affects the way the UVs from that object layer are projected into the UV space when rendered using the baking camera. One use case is to combine different scales/orientations/translations of the same image texture to create a larger detail range without creating patterns that are too obvious. It allows you to specify a UVW transform that is applied additionally to the UVW transform of its input texture (tree). On request by the Unity plugin developers we also added an UVW transform texture node.

#OCTANE RENDER MAX FULL#

With this texture node, you can utilize the full power of procedural textures and combine them with displacement, which for example makes it super easy to create alien landscapes.

The internal image will not be stored in the project and thus needs to be recalculated whenever the project is loaded. The baking is done whenever an input is changed and is calculated on-the-fly. The baking uses the texture preview system and then appears like an image texture to the rest of the system. We implemented this mainly to allow the use of procedural textures in displacement mapping, but it may have some other uses, too. We added a texture that allows you to bake an arbitrary texture into an image. In this simple example, a Lua script graph creates a grid of instances of some input geometry (a cube) and assigns them an instance ID that matches the image used in the instance colour texture.

This alone isnвЂ™t terribly useful, but combined with two new textures plugins can now explicitly define colours for instances. We added the possiblity for plugins (or Lua scripts) to explicitly define instance IDs in all geometry nodes except the volume node. Since importance sampling of the environment makes only sense if itвЂ™s not constant, Octane tries to figure out if the input texture actually is constant or not and implicitly disables importance sampling if it is, but itвЂ™s probably best to manually disable 'importance sampling' if you donвЂ™t want to use importance sampling. Until now, only image textures could be used for importance sampled environments, but now you can mix and match different textures while still using importance sampling. вЂ“ Importance sampled texture environment for all textures The problem was that in that case the direct light sampling was done non-uniformly, too, resulting in artifacts in some corner. Until now, non-uniformly scaled emitters were rendered incorrectly. вЂ“ Improved rendering of non-uniformly scaled emitters But there are cases when transparent emitters should not emit light, for example if you would like to modulate an emitter surface using opacity. This is useful if you want to control the light in your scene without your emitters being directly visible. they behaved as if 'Transparent emission' is enabled.

Until now, transparent emitters were always taken fully into account even if they were transparent, i.e. We added a new option 'Transparent emission' to the emission nodes to allow the user to choose whether the emission power should be scaled with opacity or not. The emitter on the left of the example below has the option 'Double-sided' enabled. We also added an option to make emitters double-sided. If the option is disabled no shadow rays are traced during the direct light calculation causing objects to lose their shadows. And last but not least we added an option 'Cast shadows' to the emission nodes. We also added the option 'Visible on specular' to emitter nodes which is kind of complementary controls the visibility of emitters on specular surfaces. We re-labelled the emitter option 'Cast illumination' to 'Visible on diffuse', because thatвЂ™s what it does. вЂ“ New emitter options 'Visible on diffuse', 'Visible on specular', 'Cast shadows'

This way you wouldnвЂ™t have to explicitly create placement or scatter nodes to be able to move meshes around. Since OctaneRender is not a 3D modeling software, this will not modify any mesh geometry, but we may add an additional transformation pin to mesh and volume nodes in the future. We added the possibility to modify placement and scatter nodes using handles for rotation, scaling and translation in the viewport. вЂ“ Object controls for the OctaneRender viewport Create works in a fraction of the time of traditional methods. has released an updated Octane Render 3, the fastest GPU-based, unbiased renderer.

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