Dustin talks about using the Beauty pass in the Octane. Breaking apart your render into several different elements gives you the ability to isolate specifics of the file. Beauty passes are elements or layers that make up your “final” rendered image. These passes are greatly useful in compositing for adding the final polish. They can be used to enhance elements and most importantly save time when making tweaks. Whether working off of a beauty image or rebuilding an entire render from passes, beauty passes are a vital part of the post process.
Dustin explains tools for rendering your lighting setups onto the model. These passes allow you to split each light in your scene into its own rendered layer. This is great for enhancing specific lights in post, easily without having to guess what that light would be affecting in your scene.
Dustin talks about using the info passes in the Octane section of render settings. Info passes play a huge role in post-production. They are what makes selections, relighting and grading easy! Whether using ID (masking) passes or normals this section of render settings is used to output various l...
The “clown pass” is an amazing pass using the Object ID render pass in Octane. It gives you control over selections of each individual object in post by assigning a random color to each object in your “null” or group which is applied an Octane Object Tag and setting the Layer ID to 2. You can see...
