Octane Lister Documentation

For a better experience, please use Cinema 4D R26 or higher versions

List all your daily used of Octane components and easy to change them.

Main features

• Quickly manage scene camera.

• Manager all your Scatters/Orbxs/Volumes.

• Drag to set Octane Scatter object and scatter object.

• Manage Octane lights and shaders and easily change their ids by groups.

• Drag or just Click, we can change main parameters quickly.

• Add new lights and IDs with button.

• Easy toggle the Octane muti-pass render setting state.

• Dynamic change your light AOVs with your light ids.

• Drag your scene objects on the groups, then exclude the objects quickly.

• Alt and Drag your scene objects on the groups, then include the objects quickly.

• Right Click on the group and check the includes and excludes.

Detailed information

Menu: Add

• Add ID Group : Add a new ID group in the manager, the ID will be automatic set to the supported id.

• Add ... : Those are as same as the Octane original button, nothing special here.

Menu: Count Hint

• Enable to show the counter of scene objects

Buttons

• Light Group : Add a new ID group in the manager, the ID will be automatic set to the supported id. (As same as the menu)

• Add ... : Those are as same as the Octane original button, nothing special here.

• AOV Manager : Open the Octane AOV Manager

• Toggle AOV State : Quickly set AOV render setting to ON/OFF.

• Dynamic AOVs : If this settings set True, the Light Pass AOVs will changed with your changes of the lights.

Light Parameter

• Name : Show and control the light types and names, you can double click to change the name.

• K.E (Key of Enable): Show the enable key state of current frame.

  • Click : Add a new key on current frame.

  • Ctrl Click : Remove the key on current frame.

  • Ctrl Shift Click : Clear the enable track.

• E(Enable) : Show and control your light enable state.

• C(Camera) : Check to set your light to scene camera.

• S(Solo) : Check to solo your light.

• L(Lock) : Check to set the virtual lock parameter, if is locked, solo will not apply on this light.

• TEX(Texture) : The texture of the light.

  • Alt Click : Set the Image of the texture slot, support drag from disk file and asset browser images.

  • Ctrl Click : Set the color of the texture slot

  • Ctrl Alt Shift Click : Clear the texture slot

• DIS(Distribution) : The distribution of the light.

  • Alt Click : Set the Image of the distribution slot, support drag from disk file and asset browser images.

  • Ctrl Click : Set the color of the distribution slot

  • Ctrl Alt Shift Click : Clear the distribution slot

• K.P (Key of Power): Show the power key state of the light tag.

  • Click : Add a new key on current frame.

  • Ctrl Click : Remove the key on current frame.

  • Ctrl Shift Click : Clear the enable track.

• Power : The power of the light tag, right click to input value.

• Temperature: The Temperature of the light tag, right click to input value.

• Sur(Surface Brightness) : Show and control the light surface brightness.

• Vis(Camera Visibility) : Show and control the light camera visibility and opacity.

• Dif(Visible of Diffuse) : Show and control the light visible of diffuse.

• Ref(Visible of Specular) : Show and control the light visible of specular.

• Prim(Light Type) : Show and control the light type of the tag.

• B.body(Type) : Show and control the light type(Blackbody/Texture).

Context Menu( Group )

• Lookup InExclude Objects : Show objects that include or exclude by this light id.

• You can drag objects here, it will automatic add or change object tag mask to the objects.

• You can also drag the objects between the include and exclude.

this only depends on the octane object tags light pass mask.

Drag functions ( Inside Manager Dialog )

• You can drag the light object onto the group object, this will change the light id to the group.

• You can drag a image file form your disk, or from Asset Browser onto the light, this will change the texture lot.

Camera Parameter

• Name : Camera object name, you can double click to change the name.

• CAM(Camera) : Check to set your light to scene camera.

• Check boxes : Check if the parameters is enable on the camera tag.

• Sliders : Change parameters and right click to input value.

Asset Parameter

• Name : Double click to change the name.

• E(Enable) : Show and control enable state.

• Path: The path of your reference asset, for Scatter, the path is the source geometry.

• Count : The scatter count.

• Drag :

  • On the scatter : Set the source object.

  • Under the scatter : Set the scatter objects.

Video tutorial

• None

Future plan

• add Modifier key to select Object