To create lights in OctaneRender®, go to Live Viewer > Objects menu and choose one of the several available light types in Octane. When doing so, a Light object is created in the Object Manager and a OctaneLight tag is automatically applied to the light.



Creating Octane lights




From the Cinema 4D Object Manager, Octane lights can be selected and edited.



Octane lights in the object manager




Unless set otherwise, Octane lights will be visible to the camera if they are in the camera view frustrum.



Octane light in live viewer