Octane Standalone Documentation

The LiveDB is OctaneRender’s asset database that stores materials, node groups, and even whole scenes shared by the OctaneRender® community and team. The asset database makes it easier to move these assets across a myriad of OctaneRender plugins as well as Standalone scenes.

Most materials contain textures with images. The associated images are downloaded and saved to disk in a cache folder, and the material name is added to the path. You can see the folder's location by selecting an image associated with a LiveDB file and looking at the top of the Node Inspector (Figure 1).

Figure 1: Images downloaded with LiveDB assets are stored in a cache folder

To download one of the Live DB assets, open the LiveDB tab in the Scene Outliner, right-click on the thumbnail, then click Copy. Next, right-click in the Node Graph Editor window and click on Paste from the context menu to paste the material into the scene. The nodes that make up the material can be accessed by double-clicking on the pasted node icon (Figure 2).

Figure 2: Pasting Nodes from the LiveDB into your OctaneRender scene