This section covers the primary nodes available to create and manage geometry in Octane Standalone. Once you import a scene into OctaneRender®, connect it to the Render Target. To combine multiple objects, use the Group node. If you need to reposition an object, connect a Placement node between the object and the Render Target. Any object node can connect to multiple Placement nodes, each with its own settings, to create many instances of the same object.


To determine how Octane renders meshes and scenes, you can adjust the settings in the Geometry Import tab of Preferences. You can also access the mesh settings by clicking on the Wrench icon in the Node Inspector when you select the mesh node (figure 1).


Import Preferences

Figure 1: Accessing the Import Preferences from the Node inspector