Octane For After Effects Interface Overview

Once Octane For After Effects is loaded, the Octane features become available on the Project Panel as an Octane Effect on a Solid Layer. The After Effects workspace may be customized to a layout that is most useful to the user.

Figure 1: The After Effects interface with Octane For After Effects loaded.

Important areas in the After Effects interface when working with Octane For After Effects:

(1) Project Panel — This shows the current project in an outline format and will also contain the Octane Effect Controls.
(2) Layer Panel — This shows all the layers in the current composition.
(3) Effect Controls — The Octane Render Target’s parameters can be accessed here.
(4) Composition Panel — The render is constantly updated in this Viewport window, which also displays the render’s progress.
(5) Timeline — Controls for working in the Viewport.
(6) Pass Selection — If Octane Render LayersRender layers allow users to separate their scene geometry into parts, where one part is meant to be visible and the rest of the other parts “capture” the side effects of the visible geometry. The layers allow different objects to be rendered into separate images where, in turn, some normal render passes may be applied. The Render layers are meant for compositing and not to hide parts of the scene. and Render PassesRender passes allow a rendered frame to be further broken down beyond the capabilities of Render Layers. Render Passes vary among render engines but typically they allow an image to be separated into its fundamental visual components such as diffuse, ambient, specular, etc.. are enabled, each pass may be viewed through the drop down menu. Otherwise, only the beauty/main pass is shown by default.

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