Plugin Settings

The Plugin Settings window (figure 1) provides access to various options related to the Octane renderer (figure 2).

Figure 1: Accessing the Octane Plugin settings from the Octane menu

The Octane Renderer plugin project settings window

The Octane plugin settings window provides the following options:

BxDF Model - This parameter deals with the directional distribution reflection of light from any surface. For Metallic materials, there are four applicable BxDF Models available.
Use Original Source TexturesTextures are used to add details to a surface. Textures can be procedural or imported raster files. - When activated, Octane will attempt to load the original source assets for Unreal textures. If those do not exist, Octane will fallback and load texture data from the uasset.
Convert Translucent MaterialsA set of attributes or parameters that describe surface characteristics. - This option converts translucent Unreal materials to a format that the Octane renderer can interpret.
World DisplacementThe process of utilizing a 2D texture map to generate 3D surface relief. As opposed to bump and normal mapping, Displacement mapping does not only provide the illusion of depth but it effectively displaces the actual geometric position of points over the textured surface. Subdivisions - Determines how many times a mesh is subdivided when using world displacement.
Convert Displacement - This feature is only partially implemented in the current build.
CPU Skinning - Sets skinning to always use CPU and not the Octane Bone system. This can be useful when exporting to ORBXThe ORBX file format is the best way to transfer scene files from 3D Authoring software programs that use the Octane Plug-in such as Octane for Maya, Octane for Cinema 4D, or OctaneRender Standalone. This format is more efficient than FBX when working with Octane specific data as it provides a flexible, application independent format. ORBX is a container format that includes all animation data, models, textures etc. that is needed to transfer an Octane scene from one application to another. using alembic, as it does not support joints.

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