Mastering Octane: Fundamentals (COURSE)

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

Thanos Kagkalos

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

예은 김

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

Thanos Kagkalos

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

Luke

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

Bensasi

Great! Thank you

James Clark

sorry yes! just fixed it , its till tonight !

Thanos Kagkalos

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)?

James Clark

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

Thanos Kagkalos

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

cheers bud!

Thanos Kagkalos

Amazing!

Steven Caban

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 :)

Mantas Kava

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.

Thanos Kagkalos

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

Mantas Kava

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.

Thanos Kagkalos

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

Adam Zunder

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

Thanos Kagkalos

Wish you used Redshifffft T_T

Adam Zunder

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

Thanos Kagkalos

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

Adnane Zaouadi

Hi ，pictures do these cases all show up

ChenJh

<3

Thanos Kagkalos

💪🏼🤓🤌🏼

cristian alex agudelo urrego

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!

Thanos Kagkalos

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

cristian alex agudelo urrego

cheers buddy!!

Thanos Kagkalos

bought without looking) thanks for tuts!

Konstantin Chernenko

Octane rules! MotionPunk rules! :D

Krzysztof Maro

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

Thanos Kagkalos

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

Sean

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

Thanos Kagkalos

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.

Joakim Ulseth

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

Thanos Kagkalos

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.. :)

Brian Bettini

ha let's see how that will play out :) thank you!

Thanos Kagkalos

"MotionPunk's Online School" - hell Yeah !!

Radek

thank you!

Thanos Kagkalos

thank you!

Thanos Kagkalos

Love it !! Thanks Thanos

Murat otunc

Instant cop.

Austin R Pinilla Allen

cheers buddy! more to come :)

Thanos Kagkalos

The one and only go-to Octane course 🔥🔥🔥

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