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OctaneRender Viewport

To display the OctaneRender^® Viewport, click the Open Viewport button in the main plugin Settings window (Figure 1). This will open a new window, load the scene geometry into Octane, and start rendering the scene in the OctaneRender Viewport.

Figure 1: Accessing the OctaneRender Viewport.

While rendering the scene in the Viewport, you can move the Rhinoceros camera around, and this will be immediately reflected in the Viewport.

OctaneRender Viewport Buttons

Pause

Pauses the render.

Continue

Continues the render (after it has been paused).

Refresh

Reloads all scene geometry and materials from Rhinoceros to OctaneRender. This is used after changing elements in the Rhinoceros scene.

Focus Pick (AF)

Click the toggle button to enable the setting of the Octane camera focal depth by clicking on an item or elements in the Viewport.

MaterialThe representation of the surface or volume properties of an object. Pick

Click to place the click material in the Material tab tree.

Imager Whitepoint

Use this picker to set the whitepoint from the OctaneRender Viewport.

Render Region

Enable the selection (via mouse dragging in the OctaneRender Viewport) of a render region by clicking the Render Region button. All other pick functions (focus, material, white balance) are disabled whilst Render Region is enabled.

Viewport Navigation

Clicking this button will put the plugin in a mode where the Rhinoceros camera is no longer used to position the Octane camera. Instead, navigation via the mouse buttons in the OctaneRender Viewport. Use the standard Rhinoceros mouse navigation controls in the Viewport to navigate.

• Scrolling the mouse wheel with Zoom. Right mouse button or middle mouse button rotates. Right mouse button + shift or Middle mouse button + shift pans.
• The Octane camera “Up” vector to set to 0, 1, 0 when you enter Viewport Navigation mode to ensure the camera rotates correctly.
• The Rhinoceros camera target is the center of rotation, unless a single geometry item is selection, in which case the center of that geometry is the center of rotation.
• Once the Viewport is in Viewport Navigation mode, you can save the rendertarget to the view to retain the current (Octane) camera position.

Save Image to Disk

This button will open the save image dialog window.

Save 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.. to Layered EXRAlso known as OpenEXR. This image file format was developed by Industrial Light & Magic and provides a High Dynamic Range image capable of storing deep image data on a frame-by-frame basis.

If render passes have been set up, this button will save all the active render passes to a layered EXR file.

Lock Button

Stops any live updates from occuring while the OctaneRender Viewport window is open.

Lock Camera Button

This button locks the Octane camera to the current Rhino view, so you can still work in another Rhino view without restarting the render.

Clay Rendering Mode

Overrides the scene materials with a flat material color which can be useful for focusing on object surface shape.

Camera Animation

Provides control if there is a Rhino animation set up in the scene.

Zoom Percentage

Can be used to zoom in or out on the rendering in the OctaneRender Viewport.

Render Passes

Can be used to view any render pass that has been set up in the OctaneRender tab.

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