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Environment

Environment settings can be accessed from the Render Toolbar > Environment button.

Octane Environment Parameters

Environment - Controls the Environment type.

Use Modo Environment Power - When enabled, environment power will be controlled by Modo's Shader Tree > Environment > Intensity.

Power - Controls the brightness of the environment.

Daylight Environment Settings - See Daylight Environment for more details.

Texture Environment Settings - See Texture Environment for more details.

Planetary Environment Settings - See Planetary Environment for more details.

Medium - To add an Octane Medium, drag this channel into a schematic workspace, and attach a Medium node to it. See Environment Medium Fog for more details.

Medium Radius - Radius of the environment medium. The environment medium acts as a sphere around the camera position with the specified radius.

Modo Shader Tree Environment Support

The plugin supports the following features in the Modo Shader Tree > Environment:

• Environment Item > Intensity.
• Environment (HDRIAn image which presents more than 8 bit per color channel unlike most common image formats.) TexturesTextures are used to add details to a surface. Textures can be procedural or imported raster files. (Shader Tree > Add Layer > Image Map), with Effect set to Environment Color. Only the topmost texture will be used. The plugin forces Spherical mapping internally, so it's best to use Spherical projection on the texture locator to enable to correct controls in Modo.
• Constant layers (Shader Tree > Add Layer > Processing > Constant), with Effect set to Environment Color.
• Environment MaterialThe representation of the surface or volume properties of an object., with Environment Type set to Constant, 2 Color Gradient or 4 Color Gradient.

Modo Environment Item Parameters

Additional settings can be found on the Shader Tree > Environments > Environment Item.

Intensity - Controls the brightness of the environment when Use Modo Environment Power is enabled in the Octane Environment settings.

Visible to Camera / Reflection / Refraction Rays - See Visible Environment for details.

Environment Use - Octane allows you to use 2 environments at the same time. One for lighting and another for visibility.

• Lighting Environment - This environment will be used for lighting.
• Visible Environment - This environment will be used for everything that is directly visible. See Visible Environment for details.

Settings - Opens the Environment settings for the select environment.

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