Which means for the short film production path using Unity Octane is pretty much the only choice.įrom this point of view what I'm looking for is: Do your plugins have a hook / method where we can extract the final geometry and spin up a custom mesh based on that instead of the particle render. The reason I ask is because Unity HDRP path tracing which although it is a decent ray tracer does not have a denoiser and unless you flood every scene with full lighting from all directions it is not possible to get decent renders out of it. Would it be possible to build support for Octane. We are always open to feedback, and may consider making a focused efforts into certain third party cases based on popular demand. Making changes and improvements to improve upon these third-party limitations may still be possible to implement on our end, but these may require extensive refactoring or at least a long investigation period. Third Party/Custom made elements may or may not work with Octane - unfortunately it would not be feasible for us to account for all cases of third-party mesh/material/shader types beyond the well-known and widely used, though some who manage to stay sufficiently close to native Unity implementation may innately work (one example was 'SpeedTree') - even in those cases we cannot assure ongoing support for positive cases, as their development roadmaps and workflow are beyond our control. UI elements, and particles, cannot be rendered with OctaneRender. It is worth noting that Unity is primarily designed to work with native Unity elements, as well as widely used external elements (i.e. Quote: Taking a look into the plugins, it appears that they do not use standard Unity geometry (the Obi rope specifically uses a unique type of particle to achieve it's end result). It would not be feasible for them to try to support every asset on the asset store Which if you look at it from their point of view I do understand. I've tried reaching out to Octane customer support but their response was that they cannot support the particle render methods which OBI use.

(I would have attached higher res screenshots but your 100K file size limit prevents me) In the screenshots below I've shown the game window on the left and the Octane rendered version on the right. Simply install Octane Free version and add a PBR render target to the sample scene. I'm using Octane paid version however you can just as easily reproduce this with the free version of Octane Render from the Unity Asset Store.

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