Step 2 – Open up Daz, and launch your octane plug-in. I prefer a png file to a jpg to better preserve the quality. These additional images in this download are maps that will be import further along in this process. There are 8k material options on this site, however, that is going to put some serious strain on your processing power needlessly for most projects.ĭownload and unzip your download which includes all the maps on to your computer. I prefer my materials to be between 2k and 4k each and a png. Increasingly, I like making my own maps but for the ease of this tutorial, I am going to stick with premade content. If you do not know what each map does, you can google that information easily. TIP – For the BEST results with your material, be certain to download ALL maps, not just a diffuse.

Make certain you remember where you save your newly downloaded materials so you can locate it again soon.

Step 1 – To begin with, I am going to download and use materials from here: – once you download your materials save it where ever you want on your computer. So be patient, this is a straight forward process, don’t let the size of this tutorial intimidate you. At a glance, this may seem like a huge tutorial, but I have tried to pack in lots of tips to help you. So, let’s look at expanding upon your octane material database. Even with a free database of 2,000+ materials included, I want more. That said, I am passionate about materials and hoard them like some sort of dragon. For the best results, you want to use octane materials with octane renders and iray materials with iray renders. Octane and Iray are different engines and they will render materials differently. The Octane plug-in for Daz Studio has a nice live database included with it at no extra cost.

Daz octane render plugin