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Mastering Octane: Fundamentals (COURSE)

🕑 Added 2023-03-14 20:02:13 +0000 UTC

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Thanos Kagkalos

hi! no project files as i cannot share textures/models unfortunately. U can follow along though in tutorials with eg. megascans is quite easy

예은 김

Hello, Thanks for the good lecture ! I want to purchase a course. Are 3D files provided?

Thanos Kagkalos

Hey mate, the course is a separate thing from patreon.

Luke

so we can’t access this even if I’m already paying for the highest tier course already?

Bensasi

ahh I just missed on it :( is it still possible to get a discount. willing to buy it tonight. thank you <3

James Clark

Great! Thank you

Thanos Kagkalos

sorry yes! just fixed it , its till tonight !

James Clark

Hi Thanos, I just tried to purchase the course using the discount code and it's saying 'invalid coupon'. I thought the discount offer was available until April 3rd (today)?

Thanos Kagkalos

hey Rob, read the next post :) my short answer

Can you elaborate on why you do not like RS? Are you just used to Octane, or is it the functionality / looks?

Thanos Kagkalos

cheers bud!

Steven Caban

Amazing!

Mantas Kava

Oh you can definitely expand on this topic more, I'd even say this topic would be worth a separate video of yours :) Yeah in RS time to first pixel is definitely pretty bad. Also, not sure if it's my pc or RS, but I need to constantly hit the refresh button because IPR just refuses to update, and that is really annoying. What I love though is not only light linking but having separate control of how much every light affects GI, Reflections etc. And Octane has some really nice procedural/osl maps implemented, that I really liked. Oh and the way displacement works is also better IMO. Anyways, I'll repeat myself, but a video about this topic would be really nice. Just saying :)

Thanos Kagkalos

Great q bud! Long story short-ish: If you are heavily dependant on light linking don't use Octane. Thats the only reason anyone should go in RS imo. There is no other advantage, everything else is a myth. Esp stuff like stability/features etc. That being said, heavily dependant in light linking, as i come from a vray background where I kinda learned to light similarly, my lighting game/images stepped up a ton when i switched to octane in 2017 by trying to work as a photographer rather than a cg artist. RS is atm the least good engine to pick amongst octane/corona/arnold/even karma imo. Cause its heavily unstable + very slow to first pixel and with the least interactivity. Feels already archaic to how industry standards are. Yes it was no1 for many years in mograph, not anymore. In Houdini, octane plugin implementation sucks. Not the engine, that is again far superior imo. The plugin and ui and all is bad. Thats my pov, i can extend way more, but thats the short-ish answer :) ps. didnt bring upon the subject of spectral engines vs biased ones. If u are experienced in lookdev things do look different, light spreading, shading, everything.

Mantas Kava

It's always nice to see some fresh, quality Octane tutorials/courses! But I'd really like to hear your short answer for what's the strengths and weaknesses of both Octane and Redshift. Used them both myself, but lately, I'm with Redshift. Octane implementation in both C4D and Houdini just seemed "clunky" and not as nicely incorporated to me. The lack of light linking in Octane didn't help either. And what would be your summary on this topic I'm curious? Thanks

Thanos Kagkalos

Thanks! Thats the MAIN reason i did this course: octane doesnt crash seriously. Last 1,5 years is rock solid. I hope you find a chance to test it out and see for your self.

Adam Zunder

I played around with Octane for a while though and really liked it (minus all the constant crashes). Unfortch our studio is RS so my hands are tied! Either way, beautiful stuff as always man. Keep up the awesome work

Thanos Kagkalos

hehe, honestly I do not like RS at all :) tried it for a bit this year but no. Check out octane if u are not forced by ur studio to be on RS. If u are not in very heavy vfx stuff, u ll be pleasantly surprised

Adam Zunder

Wish you used Redshifffft T_T

Thanos Kagkalos

hey bud thats a complete different thing. Its about learning new octane version from ground up with all new features, no design etc.

Adnane Zaouadi

thanks Thanu! how it's different from the course of "Styleframes for Motion Designers" ?

ChenJh

Hi ，pictures do these cases all show up

Thanos Kagkalos

cristian alex agudelo urrego

💪🏼🤓🤌🏼

Thanos Kagkalos

thank you sir!!

Thanos Kagkalos

great to hear that :) I hope it get u up to speed cause next courses i wont explain technical things, will be only cool shit!

cristian alex agudelo urrego

This is exactly what i've been waiting for, thanks Mr kagkalos !

Thanos Kagkalos

cheers buddy!!

Konstantin Chernenko

bought without looking) thanks for tuts!

Krzysztof Maro

Octane rules! MotionPunk rules! :D

Thanos Kagkalos

likewise haha rocking on since 2017 new years i think :) cheers

Sean

Awesome octane only here for years. Great stuff thanks as always

Thanos Kagkalos

Thank you! Curious to see what you think of it. I tried to include a lot of things. New versions have been packed :)

Joakim Ulseth

Thanks for this! I will purchase your course immediately. I'm a long time Octane user, since v1 or v2 i think, but I'm sure I will learn a lot from this anyways. I have previously purchased and learned a lot from Octane Master Course from Epic J Creations, but that haven't been updated as frequent lately as the versions progressed.

Thanos Kagkalos

Thank you! Why you switched to rs if I may? Its way more unstable/less features at this point.

Brian Bettini

I've been using octane for a while, and recently switch to redshift, I hope you make a Redshift course too!.. Thanks for all the excelent material you always bring to us.. :)