OctaneRender® for ArchiCAD beta - build 1.11b [OBSOLETE] Tweet

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This is the recommended thread for downloading, and posting any questions, suggestions or support queries for OctaneRender for ArchiCAD, build 1.11b (STABLE RELEASE). This version is compiled against Octane 1.11, so see the requirements for that build regarding compatibility with your video card.

If you have a support issue, pls provide the following information:
- Operating System (ie. Win XP, Vista, 7, 8)
- 32 or 64 bit
- Amount of RAM
- Graphics Card(s) - model (ie. GTX 580, 3GB)
- Nvidia driver version
- ArchiCAD version (ArchiCAD -> Help -> License Information -> Version and Build Number
- OctaneRender for ArchiCAD version (ie. 1.02a)
- In the unlikely event of a crash, pls provide the dump report from the C:\Users\[username]\Graphisoft\BugReporting-[version] folder (on Win 7). Either post or email (to "paul at physicalc-consulting.com") the "ArchiCAD-XXXXXX-FATAL.RPT" file from this folder.

Change Log from release 1.02b
- Compiled against Octane 1.11 so includes...
. New Panoramic camera (spherical and cylindrical). NOTE: The panoramic camera fovx and fovy pins are not converted from the ArchiCAD fov. * Manually adjust these sliders to get the required fov.
. New dirt texture
. Enhanced daylight model
. Post-processing spectral sliders
. Volumetric fog
- When the plugin first starts, it writes a small amount of diagnostic data the ArchiCAD Report

For more information...
- Read the manual
- Read the FAQ
- Watch the Introductory Tutorial Video
- Check the Facebook page
- Post your question on this forum thread

Troubleshooting
- GUI issues (lock-up/crash) on large scenes (ie. 4million polys) - potentially due to the Windows Vista/7 "Timeout Detection and Recovery" http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/gg487368.aspx. Settings can be changed using Regedit. The recommended setting for Octane are registry setting HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers, TdrLevel = 3, TdrDelay =10 (if these settings are not already there, rightclick the right panel -> New -> DWORD). You will need to reboot after changing these settings.

Limitations
- materials selection (to auto-populate the "Select from Selection" combo box on the Materials tab of the plug, does not work unless you are viewing a 3d perspective window.
- Changing an element's material will not automatically select the new material in the Materials tab of the plugin. You will need to select another element, and then re-select the original element to get the "Select from Selection" combo box to populate the new material
- To use the material picker (Materials Tab -> "Select from Selection") on Curtain Wall objects, put the Curtain Wall in edit mode
- The ArchiCAD Perspective camera roll angle is not transposed to the Octane thinlens "up" pin. If you need to rotate the render, manually adjust the "up" vector.
- Image map rotation is not current supported by OctaneRender, so any rotation of texturemaps in ArchiCAD materials is ignored in the texture conversion to Octane.
- GDL materials of the same name, for different objects, are merged to be one Octane material
- On ArchiCAD 14, selecting from the "Select from Selection" popup is disabled (ie. you cannot choose from the materials of the currently selected scene element). Instead, you will need to select materials in the plugin Materials tab via the "Select from Materials" popup.
- On ArchiCAD 14, when doing a photorender, sun study or flythrough, the render viewport may not display the render as it progresses. This is a GUI display issue, and the render is working as per normal

Download Links
Download the plugin from the following links:
- OctaneRender for ArchiCAD 14 1.11b beta (32 & 64 bit)
- OctaneRender for ArchiCAD 15 1.11b beta (32 & 64 bit)
- OctaneRender for ArchiCAD 16 1.11b beta (32 & 64 bit)

Paul

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Pls note: after additional testing, it has been found that this version 1.11 of the plugin has substantially longer load times than 1.02. If load times are an issue for you, pls revent back to 1.02. I will update progress on this issue in this thread.

Paul

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Hi Paul,
it seams that this release can't handle special characters (ä ü ö ß and so on) in filenames (textures) again.
Greetings
Sebastian

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Thanks Sebastian

What error are you getting?

Do you have a specific example of a material name causing that problem that i can test pls?

Paul

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All materials with an image texture, which filename contains a special character (ä, ö, ü, ß ...) for example: "Verputz_Weiß.jpg" or "Lärche.jpg" are not loaded into octane and displayed as solid colors.

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You are right. It is not working for me on 1.02 either. Looks to be an issue with the Octane engine, although Octane Standalone is accepting these textures. I will report this to Otoy.

Paul

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Hi Paul,

As you can see I got un incorrectly installed plugin of 1.11.
Immediately reinstalled 1.02b and that was OK again.

greetz, Jeroen

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Hi Jeroen

What is the date/time and filesize of your C:\Program Files\GRAPHISOFT\ArchiCAD 16\Add-Ons\Visualisation\OctaneRenderForArchiCAD_Renderer.gmx file pls (after installing 1.11b).

Also, pls re-install 1.11b, reboot, and try again, just in case something is still running.

Paul

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All materials with an image texture, which filename contains a special character (ä, ö, ü, ß ...) for example: "Verputz_Weiß.jpg" or "Lärche.jpg" are not loaded into octane and displayed as solid colors.

I've done some more investigation into this, and it appears the plugin is not correctly encoding the filename correctly. I will hopefully have a fix in the next day or so.

Paul

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I have refreshed the installers in the link on the first msg in this thread to fix the following:

- Fixed issue where texturemap filenames with special character could not be loaded into Octane image, alphaimage and floatimage materials
- Fixed long load time issue
- Added scene scale factor to the configuration. NOTE: YOU WILL NEED TO RE-ACTIVATE THE PLUGIN, and re-apply your configuration items, since the old configuration file will not be loaded.
- Fixed issue where changing from environment "texture environment" to "daylight" would not set the sun direction correctly
- Fixed installer issue where the older version of the addon was not being updated (The version number at the bottom of the "Rendering" Tab should read "1.11b2" for this version)

Because I run on the INT version - there are no Materials that reference texturemaps with special characters. So let me know if on other language editions are there any ArchiCAD materials which contain references to texturemaps WITH special character, and if they convert correctly to Octane materials.

Paul