Great news, we see light reflections in both eyes. Remember, Octane Render doesn’t have any spotlights or camera headlamps so we’ll have to add a mesh light. Hey, where are the light reflections? Other than a small blip on her right eye, there’s nothing there. Her hair is highlighted, we have some shadows on the face and she’s completely oblivious to the eternal darkness behind her. Okay, we’re happy with the general lighting. I quickly put together three mesh lights to illuminate her. Let us pretend that we have low standards and consider this to be good lighting. Parenting a plane on to a camera makes it easy to position lightingįor this example, we’re going to use Hikari as our model. This will save you countless hours down the road. You will then be able position your light by assuming the camera view. Make the camera the parent and save this as a prop for future use.
OPTIONAL: Create a plane and place it centered on a camera. By default, Cornea is included which makes eye reflections impossible until you’ve removed it from the filter list. Whatever names are listed here will be filtered out and ignored from Octane materials. It may have some items already listed in there like “Cornea”. In the Preferences tab, find “Surfaces Material Filter”. I’ve recently moved to a new system and forgot about this additional step required until I realized I couldn’t create eye reflections.
Without those eye reflections, our characters look dead inside, just like me. We’ll put aside a full lighting tutorial for another day, for now we’ll focus on getting those gorgeous eye reflections with Octane. We will almost entirely rely on simple mesh lights. There are no spotlights or camera headlamp to get things going. Setting up lights with Octane is a night and day difference when compared to Iray. If you’ve recently switched to Octane Render from Iray, you’re probably scratching your head on how to do lighting.
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