Maybe you can use the lowres character to deform the highres character and export only the highres version...

face

Yes, I tried it and it works...I can do this for the moment....but this is not convenient on production.
RS team should resolve the terminator problem to allow Octane to work like ...

Hi frank,

The ray terminator problem is not a bug.
Its a natural side effect of trying to render a mesh object with a raytracing algorithm, where the mesh object has too few vertices, and the edges between connected triangles are too high angled to be interpolated propperly.

Hi Radiance,

Thanks ...

20 days and still no response from anyone !?...

Note that I paid 99euros for the product, like everybody here, as a customer, I think I should have a quick and clear answer from Refractive Software...

Thanks to take my request in consideration.

Franck.

steveps3 wrote:The Arnie, terminator problem?

Not Arnie...

This problem : http://refractivesoftware.com/forum/vie ... tor#p49173

Very frustrating !...

Franck.

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Hello guys,

Can someone here tell us, when and who will resolve the terminator problem ??

This is so important for use this marvelous engine render...OCTANE.

Sadly unusable for me in animation, until this will be OK : Ability to use low poly characters for animation.

As customers and fans of ...

The terminator effect is render dependent.
See the image from Jafray: http://www.yafaray.org/sites/default/files/issues/terminator.png
Octane: http://refractivesoftware.com/forum/download/file.php?id=11668&mode=view
Thearender: http://www.thearender.com/cms/images/news/TerminatorArtifactTreatment ...

Hi,

This is indeed what i suspected and is a bug in the lightwave export script.
The exporter does not write out vertex normals properly.

Radiance
And Johan aka Holocube said :
The terminator problem is nothing I can fix.

Well, this is not good news for us...I'm a bit lost...who can fixe the ...

vipvip wrote:galford: as explained to us Face, i'm afraid the 'terminator' effect is due to the octane GI method and not to the LW exporter.

But is it the case with maya, XSI, etc...??
Can somebody, from other software, answer us ?

What do you think about that Radiance ?

Regards,
Franck.

Could you try the test I've attached. Add the two in layout.

Load your scene, open the octane export in layout master plugins.
Click "Prepare Scene"
Hop over to Modeler, run OctaneExporterMOD.lsc (i recommend making a hotkey or menu item for this one...)
Hope over to Layout and hit the render ...

holocube wrote:I will start by putting up the singel frame render first. Make sure it works for you guys

We are ready to test it !!
When can we dowload the new exporter ?..