Material Starter Set
This resource contains 75+ different Octane materials created using the Universal Material.
About This Resource
Version 1. Created using Octane 2022.1.
This C4D file contains ~75 different Octane materials using the Universal Material. These are meant to be starting points to show the basic construction of a large variety of materials so you can understand how they’re created and expand on them to build your own materials.
All of the materials are fully procedural - no linked textures were used.
The materials and the shader ball model have been released under the CC0 license. You’re free (and encouraged) to modify them and use them in commercial and personal work.
This guide is also available in 📄 PDF format here
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The Materials
Basic Matte & Glossy Materials
Basic Materials using the Albedo & Specular Channels.
Basic Metallic Materials
Metallic materials using all three Metallic IOR methods: Artistic, IOR+Color, and RGB IOR.
Advanced Metallic Materials
Metallic materials that also utilize other channels. Includes two procedural Anisotropic materials.
Emissive Materials
Emissive material setups for Blackbody and Texture emission. Includes both RGB Spectrum and Gaussian Spectrum nodes for different qualities of light.
Transmissive Materials
Basic Transmissive materials using Diffuse, Specular, Thin Wall and Thin Wall Diffuse transmission types. Also has a few Dispersion examples.
Basic Medium Examples
Basic Medium setups for Absorption, Scattering, and Random Walk mediums using both Specular and Diffuse Transmission.
Advanced Medium Examples
More advanced Medium setups using a few different inputs in each medium.
Surface Depth Examples
Procedural setups for Bump, Normal, Texture Displacement, and Vertex Displacement.
Special Effects
Setups for Opacity, Thin Film, and Round Edges.
Top Layers
Setups for Sheen, Coating, and Material Layers.
Author Notes
This guide originally appeared on www.contextualguides.com and https://help.otoy.com/hc/en-us/categories/201718003-OctaneRender-Support-Guides
The written guide may be distributed freely and can be used for personal or professional training, but not modified or sold. The assets distributed within this guide are either generated specifically for this guide and released as CC0, or sourced from CC0 sites unless otherwise noted and attributed.
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