There are two ways to add textures to materials in OctaneRender® — from the Cinema 4D Material Editor and the Octane Node Editor.


From the C4D Material Editor

To add Octane textures from the Cinema 4D material editor, go to Texture >Plugins >OctaneRender for Cinema 4D  this sub menu contains all of the Octane texture options available



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From the octane Node Editor

Add Octane textures from the Node Editor — Live Viewer > Materials > Octane Node Editor. On the left side of the editor window are all the texture types that Octane provides.



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