where did my red go?! Why is this white? I am so confused. Wisely, you introduce some variation to break the perfect red. Looking back at your RGBSpectrum – it’s 100% red with no information in the Green and Blue channels. Render engines do NOT really like “extreme” values like 100% black, 100% white, 100% saturated, 100% glossy etc, you get the point. What the hell is that?! Magenta? Noise? Fireflies? I am doomed!” And just before you start crying (usually online) how broken Octane is, swearing “I’ve never had these problems with V-Ray” and so on, you remember something important. “Bah, that’s easy!” you say and pump the power up to 200!
Nevermind, back to work.Ĭlient feedback comes in and it goes like: “ That’s cool and all but. Confidence starts building up again and you are secretly thinking that, with that skill set, you should be working at ILM. You assign an RGBSpectrum and reduce the watt power down to 1. Standard workflow – an Octane Material (with no Diffuse color) and Texture Emission. Doesn’t take long before the first test render is complete: And so, you go with the freaking neon tube. Better? Better! You know, every little project gets you one step closer to that awesome job you’ve been waiting for all your life. “For the love of mother and child!” As usual, you go scream into a pillow for 5 minutes.
“Hello, can you make me a red, glowing, neon tube?” Let’s see – social media notifications, a newsletter you never signed up for, new drugs that will make your sex life better, a new render by beeple and oh, wait, a job offer! Subconscious images of self-knitting Nike shoes, shiny car renders, explosions, transformers, or whatever else you define as “cool”, all projected in front of your eyes as you anxiously open that message. You don’t, but it feels like it! A few unread e-mails in your inbox. It makes you feel like you got your shit together. You are starting to feel the little rush after that first sip of good, strong coffee. Which one do you prefer? Not sure? Don’t care? See why!