by Pixel Lab·Rendering
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Earns its place for pairing 20 Octane studios with a full Xpresso rig on each, a pack that was expanded to its full 20 setups over a year of frequent updates.
Pixel Lab Octane Lighting Essentials is a collection of 20 preset lighting studios for Cinema 4D, all built for the Octane render engine. Each studio is fully customizable, and every one includes a full Xpresso rig so you can modify the lights and colors.
The 20 scenes cover a wide spread of uses. There are clean and seamless studios for product visualization and daily renders, a shooting room, a car studio, and a big studio for large objects like vehicles with an optional moody fog. Others focus on specific looks: dramatic and cinematic lighting, hard light for exalting metals, the foggy volumetric Ray of God, Perfect Portrait with adjustable HDRI power and position plus two toggleable lights, a jewelry studio, a garage, a 4k-textured Hexagon Studio, a beverage packaging studio, a disco studio, and a long shadow rig.
It runs on Mac and PC, supports Cinema 4D R15 to R23, and requires Octane 3.07. The pack was built out through frequent updates over a year, reaching its full count of 20 studios.
Pixel Lab Octane Lighting Essentials is best for cinema 4D artists rendering in Octane who want ready-made, customizable lighting setups for product, portrait, automotive, jewelry and cinematic work.
Pixel Lab Octane Lighting Essentials is completely free to download and use.
Pixel Lab Octane Lighting Essentials supports Cinema 4D R15 through R23 on both Mac and PC, so R23 is covered. It also requires Octane 3.07. If you're on a Cinema 4D version within that range and running Octane 3.07, the 20 studio setups and their Xpresso rigs should load as intended. For versions outside R15 to R23, or a different Octane release, check the developer's page to confirm compatibility before installing.
Pixel Lab Octane Lighting Essentials is built for the Octane render engine and lists Octane 3.07 as a requirement. All 20 studios are set up for Octane lighting, including an Octane spotlight scene and the HDRI-lit Perfect Portrait studio, so Octane needs to be installed alongside Cinema 4D. It runs on Mac and PC with Cinema 4D R15 to R23. If you use a different renderer, these studios are not designed for it.
Pixel Lab Octane Lighting Essentials includes a full Xpresso rig with every studio, which is how you modify the lights and colors. The Perfect Portrait scene, for example, lets you manage size, ratio, background color, and the power and position of the HDRI light source, plus two lights you can turn on and off, one with selectable color and one with selectable temperature. The Disco Studio scene lets you change colors, animation and flickering easily.
Pixel Lab Octane Lighting Essentials is listed as free in this catalog. Pricing and licensing can change over time, so for the current terms and any download details it's best to check the developer's page directly. What's covered here is a pack of 20 Octane lighting studios for Cinema 4D, each with its own Xpresso rig for customization, supporting Cinema 4D R15 to R23 on Mac and PC.
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