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How are Octane materials different from C4D materials?

How are Octane materials different from C4D materials?

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How are Octane materials different from C4D materials?

- [Narrator] Octane is not simply a renderer of the Cinema 4D scenes, and by that I mean, you don't take a Cinema 4D scene, which uses standard Cinema 4D materials, lights and cameras, and render it using Octane. That isn't to say you can't render a scene in Octane, which has C4D materials applied, you just won't get the best results. To get the most from the renderer, you need to use Octane's material system, as opposed to applying Cinema 4D materials to objects and then, rendering in Octane. In a later chapter, we'll also discuss why you should use Octane's lights, as well. So, back to materials. Octane's are physically based and differ to Cinema 4D's materials. You still create materials by working in different channels, but from the outset, you can define the type of material. So, that sets up the overall quality of the material you wish to create. There are several methods for actually creating material, and a couple of work flows for editing materials. To create a material…

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