OctaneRender® for Maya® v1.02 beta [OBSOLETE]

[JimStar]

Otoy® is proud to announce the availability of a new version of OctaneRender™ for Maya®
The world's fastest and most feature-rich unbiased render engine that integrates completely into Autodesk® Maya®.

Maya® Version Requirements

This release will work with Maya® Versions 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2013.5 / 32-bit & 64-bit on MS Windows operating systems.

Notes regarding features/functionality

OctaneRender™ for Maya® implements almost full functionality of OctaneRender™ standalone inside Maya®. Materials from the Live DB are currently not available.

COMPATIBILITY AND OCTANERENDER STANDALONE REQUIREMENT

To run OctaneRender™ for Maya®, you need to also have an activated OctaneRender™ Standalone copy activated on the machine you wish to install the plugin onto.
You cannot purchase and use only the Maya plugin and use it without also owning an activated copy of OctaneRender™ Standalone on your machine.


HOW TO PURCHASE LICENSES

Go to our online shop here: http://render.otoy.com/shop/

If you do not own an OctaneRender™ Standalone Edition License yet:
You can purchase both the OctaneRender™ Standalone Edition and the OctaneRender™ for Maya® Edition as a reduced price bundle, purchase the bundle priced at 279€

If you already own one or more OctaneRender™ Standalone Edition licenses you want to pair the plugin with:
Purchase an "OctaneRender™ for Maya® Beta License" priced at 99€

You can also purchase a 3, 5 or 10 pack of OctaneRender™ for Maya® licenses,
just like OctaneRender™ Standalone Edition packs.


OCTANELIVE

Just like OctaneRender™ Standalone, the Maya® plugin product also needs an additional OctaneLive license and be activated on a machine.
This has to be done in the plugin interface panel in Maya, and is covered in the included PDF manual.
It can only be done after an OctaneRender™ Standalone license is already activated on the machine in question.


BUG FIXES SINCE LAST RELEASE:

• Fixed "Caustic blur" attribute refresh in IPR mode.

NEW FEATURES SINCE LAST RELEASE:

• New 1.02 engine.
• New "Daylight model" attribute in Octane SunSky node.
• New "Postprocessor" feature added to Octane camera.
• New "Orthographic" mode added to Octane camera.
• New "White balance" attribute added to Octane imager.
• New "Matte" attribute added to Octane Diffuse material.

DOWNLOAD

Next version HERE.


Yours,
The OctaneRender™ Team.

[ypolyz]

Hi JimStar ,
since OctaneRender® for Maya® v1.0 RC3a beta if particle instancer set type: Movable proxy or Scatter, assigned geometry materials is disappears and render instancer in gray material.
With OctaneRender® for Maya® v1.0 RC3 - 1.0 everything was fine.
Many thanks for OctaneRender® for Maya® v1.02 beta, but the same problem.
Sorry for my bad english.

[TBFX]

Merry Christmas and thanks for the Christmas present Jimstar!

Will the importance sampling feature for HDR tyexture environments be added soon?

T.

[JimStar]

Will the importance sampling feature for HDR tyexture environments be added soon?

There is no API for this feature so far, so lets wait for it some time... Engine team works like crazy last time, so I don't think we will wait very long for it...))

[JimStar]

since OctaneRender® for Maya® v1.0 RC3a beta if particle instancer set type: Movable proxy or Scatter, assigned geometry materials is disappears and render instancer in gray material.
With OctaneRender® for Maya® v1.0 RC3 - 1.0 everything was fine.
Many thanks for OctaneRender® for Maya® v1.02 beta, but the same problem.

No problems at all with it on my system, can't reproduce...

Can you please describe in detail how do you set it and/or give me the scene?..

[TBFX]

Will the importance sampling feature for HDR tyexture environments be added soon?

There is no API for this feature so far, so lets wait for it some time... Engine team works like crazy last time, so I don't think we will wait very long for it...))

No worries, yeah the OTOY devs are really moving things now!
I did notice this feature listed for the v1.01 Max Plugin though

T.

[ypolyz]

JimStar wrote:


Can you please describe in detail how do you set it and/or give me the scene?..


Yes, send.

[JimStar]

I did notice this feature listed for the v1.01 Max Plugin though

Karba has the access to engine sources, so he can do some more things for Max plugin.

[TBFX]

Karba has the access to engine sources, so he can do some more things for Max plugin.

Understood.

T.

[RickToxik]

Yes thank you Jimstar and Otoy for your hard work and Merry Christmas to everybody.