

It may have some items already listed in there like “Cornea”.

In the Preferences tab, find “Surfaces Material Filter”. I’ve recently moved to a new system and forgot about this additional step required until I realized I couldn’t create eye reflections. Without those eye reflections, our characters look dead inside, just like me.

We’ll put aside a full lighting tutorial for another day, for now we’ll focus on getting those gorgeous eye reflections with Octane. We will almost entirely rely on simple mesh lights. There are no spotlights or camera headlamp to get things going. Setting up lights with Octane is a night and day difference when compared to Iray. If you’ve recently switched to Octane Render from Iray, you’re probably scratching your head on how to do lighting.
