OctaneRender™ Standalone 2.12.1

[abstrax]

Hi all,

This is a maintenance update of OctaneRender 2.1x.

Changes since version 2.11.1:

• Improved node inspector by providing a compact view of uncollapsed node pins. Also changed the default expansion logic to reduce the clutter.
• Added pin descriptions as tooltips.
• Fixed broken layout after a pane got minimized and Octane was closed.
• Fixed node stack groups containing unconnected pins.
• Enabled PMC for Maxwell 2 GPUs.
• Fixed performance regression in PMC kernel introduced with version 2.11.
• Fixed/improved displacement mapping with negative offsets.
• Fixed self-shadowing of objects with matte material.
• Fixed post-processing glare.
• Removed "tonemapped EXR" option from OpenEXR save dialog.
• Making sure that at least one render pass is viewed and if the currently viewed pass gets disabled, fall back to the main beauty pass.
• Fixed rendering of object ID / material ID passes at the same time.
• Switched to a newer version of the network library used for network rendering fixing low transfer rates on some Win7 computers.
• Fixed missing initialization of Winsock library which may cause net render daemon discovery or the daemons to fail.
• Fixed a crash in Octane if a daemon gets enabled on the same computer as the master.
• Added option "logarithmic" to octane.scriptgraph.setInputLinkers().
• Added render pass support in Lua:
  • octane.render.getAllRenderPassIds()
  • octane.render.getAllRenderPassesStatistics()
  • octane.render.saveRenderPassesMultiExr()
  • octane.render.setDisplayRenderPassId()
• Added batch render script.
• Reduced error messages in net render daemon.
• Fixed crash when an internal script is run while no user scripts are provided (or the user script directory is invalid).
• Fixed parsing of Lua script headers.
• Fixed internal Lua scripts.

We fixed a few more issues introduced with 2.12 and are releasing another small update:

• Fixed material and texture preview.
• Fixed incorrect weighting of environment and light shadows on the matte material.
• Fixed startup issues on Windows XP.
• Fixed startup issues on Mac OSX.
• Daemon search sub-net is now loaded correctly from the preferences.
• Connections of an external render passes node to a render target node are now correctly loaded from .ocs files.

Download

Windows
- 32-bit archive
- 64-bit archive

Mac OS X
- 64-bit installer image

Linux
- 64-bit archive

Happy rendering,
Your OTOY NZ Team

[grimm]

Excellent! Off to test!

[aLeXXtoR]

Beautiful! Gone to test it.

[aLeXXtoR]

Info Passes are still don't have neither Motion Blur nor DoF. Is this behavior is normal?

[stratified]

You need to check distributed ray tracing in the render passes node, it was already there in the previous release.

[aLeXXtoR]

You need to check distributed ray tracing in the render passes node, it was already there in the previous release.

Elephant wasn't seen by me... Thanks!

[Rikk The Gaijin]

[*] Fixed/improved displacement mapping with negative offsets.

Thank you for this update! I can see there was an improvement in the displacement, unfortunately the problem is not completely gone, although is much better than before.

I've noticed that if I apply one level of Subdivision, the black lines become almost invisible, so definitely an improvement!

[aLeXXtoR]

Is it possible to add a Search field to the API Browser?
And it would be really great if there was an option to have a kind of "extended hints" for elements with theirs "API paths" (like in Blender for example).

[Rikk The Gaijin]

Oh, I forgot, I like the new compact interface!

[aLeXXtoR]

Oh, I forgot, I like the new compact interface!

Oh, yes! Me too!