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Installing the OctaneRender^® for Unity^® Integration

You can install the OctaneRender^® for Unity^® integration by downloading one of the scenes OTOY^® provides in the Unity Asset Store. The Installer Scene is built to be lightweight and friendly, so we recommend it for getting started (Figure 1).

• For OctaneRender Prime, all you need to do is download the Installer Scene and open it in the Unity Editor.
• To upgrade to OctaneRender Studio or OctaneRender Creator, please visit OTOY's Unity page. The Installation steps are the same. However, once you open OctaneRender in the Unity Editor, you will be directed via email to complete your user account and select plugins, or access to OctaneRender Cloud^®.

Figure 1: Selecting the Installer Scene from the Unity Asset Store

You can also import the Installer Scene directly from Unity's Asset Store and into a project (Figure 2).

Figure 2: Adding the Octane Installer scene directly in Unity

After the download is complete, the Import Unity Package window opens. Click the Import button to import all the contents from the Installer Scene into the current Unity project (Figure 3).

Figure 3: Importing the contents of the Octane Installer Scene into Unity

Once the Installer Scene is imported, select the PBR Render Target in the Hierarchy window (Figure 4).

Figure 4: Selecting the PBR Render Target in the Hierarchy window

From the Inspector window, click the Load Octane button (Figure 5).

Figure 5: Activating the Octane plug-in from the PBR Render Target’s Inspector window

After clicking the Load Octane button and activating the Octane render engine, the Inspector window provides many rollouts for controlling the render process. To start the rendering process, click the Render button (Figure 6).

Figure 6: Clicking the Render button to start the rendering process

Clicking the Render button opens the PBR Viewport window, where the rendering process continuously updates until OctaneRender reaches the specified sampling level (Figure 7).

Figure 7: The Octane Installer Scene rendering in the PBR Viewport

The Installer Scene contains the OctaneRender for Unity plug-in, which you can import into any Unity scene as a custom package without the additional assets contained in the Installer Scene. To accomplish this:

1. Create a new Unity scene, then from the Assets menu, choose Import Package, then click Custom Package (Figure 8).

Figure 8: Importing the Octane Custom Package

2. Navigate to where you saved the Octane Installer scene and select the Hull MaterialThe representation of the surface or volume properties of an object..Unitypackage file (Figure 9).

Figure 9: Importing the Hull Material custom package

3. In the Import Unity Package window, deselect everything except Plugins (Figure 10), then click Import.

Figure 10: Deselecting all the assets except for Plugins in the Import Unity Package window

4. After importing the OctaneRender custom package plug-ins, the Octane Menu displays in the Unity menu bar (Figure 11).

Figure 11: The Octane menu in Unity

5. From the Octane menu, click Settings to open the PBR Settings window, and click the Load Octane button (Figure 12).

Figure 12: Opening the PBR Settings window from the Octane menu

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