OctaneRender™ Standalone 1.54

[roeland]

Hi all,

This is another maintenance update for 1.5, fixing bugs reported in the last couple of weeks.

This version introduces support for the new GeForce GTX 750 and GTX 750 Ti cards on Windows and Linux. Because of this, you may need a more recent version of the NVIDIA drivers.

Changes since version 1.53.1

• Fixed the problem that the Octane menu bar disappears sometimes on OSX. As a side-effect which we couldn't solve, the application can crash if you quite while a project is loaded (the other menu items are disabled, but for some reason the the quit item can't be disabled).
• Added functions to the batch render scripts: automatically skip existing files, set up the number used in the file name of the first frame, if a render fails, move on to the next frame instead of showing an error dialog.
• Increased precision for loading alembic cameras a bit more, this should now fix the shaky camera paths in all scenes.
• Fix crash when animating through an alembic file which contains meshes with a variable amount of triangles.
• Fixed issue causing the amount of frames displayed on the time line to be 1 too much.
• Fixed bug in instance detection for old Alembic files.
• When saving an ORBX package, all alembic files are directly readable from the package, regardless from the alembic version of the exporter.
• Extended the Lua image API: add create, save, getPixel and setPixel functions
• You can set animators for bool attributes via the Lua API.
• Added the array animator setters to the nodegraph module.
• Fixed hidden Lua dialogs on Linux/OSX.

Download

Windows
- 64-bit installer
- 32-bit installer

MacOS X
- 32-bit and 64-bit installer

Linux
- 64-bit

Happy rendering,
Your OTOY NZ Team

[smicha]

Thank you!

[Jaberwocky]

Cheers Roeland and the team....I'll try out my 750ti card.

[Jaberwocky]

Ok - Ran the test using the default Canyon benchmark scene using the latest 331.71 beta drivers.
GTX 460 (Fermi) for base line purposes P/T 1.91 , PMC 1.53 , D/L 6.31
GTX 750ti (Maxwell) P/T 2.17 , PMC 1.80 , D/L 6.69

All M/sec

looks like around 10% performance improvement over a GTX460

Not bad for a 60 watt card !

[glimpse]

looks like around 10% performance improvement over a GTX460

Not bad for a 60 watt card !

Great performance! I wasn't expecting that from this card =)

[Jaberwocky]

looks like around 10% performance improvement over a GTX460

Not bad for a 60 watt card !

Great performance! I wasn't expecting that from this card =)

no, must admit, i was a bit surprised as well....That make's 2 of them equal to an old GTX580 for 120 watt consumption

Shame you'd run out of slots on a motherboard before a decent power supply was put at risk.

[blobbybarack]

Thanks for the update.

Continue bug reporting on Alembic import
This one exist since previous version it's not 1.5.4 specific.

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i've some problem with camera focus distance update.
Octane do not update changes makes to .abc when reloading with the circular green arrow.
If you reimport the scene one more time it keep the old camera distance.

If you delete all object and reimport the scene the focus distance is updated.
If you save and close Octane the update works too.
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fix crash when animating through an alembic file which contains meshes with a variable amount of triangles.

I should give you some feedback about this today.

Anyway thanks to take some time to polish deeply 1.0 before 2.0.
Addition to default render animation script are always welcome. Thanks for that too.
Some users are making a great job on LUA script forum. One user post a script where you can set render time instead of sample number.
It's really usefull in production.
Will be awesome to see this inside default script.
Same for batch rendering.

[FoolooF]

Great.
Thanks for the update.

[ROUBAL]

One user post a script where you can set render time instead of sample number.
It's really usefull in production.

Doesn't it give uneven grain between frames ?

[Tugpsx]

Nice update, thanks off to test with old scenes, to see enhancements/issues