Please watch this video. It makes it very clear this long standing, frustrating issue. (in a very pleasant way). ;)

Basically if you're using netGPUs, the volume FRONT buffer is broken. DEVS has verified its a core Otoy plugin issue. I have also included a basic scene demonstrating the issue.

I ...

I actually figured it out. It's much simpler than I thought. Pick a PoV on sight. Render from that view using a projection camera. Works out great!

One of my team members has noticed when rendering VDBs it crashes after 10 or so frames, consistently. Have any of you, in whatever package you are using, had issues with RTX5090s? His prior RTX4090 was far more stable. He's running latest Studio drivers, Windows 11 Pro all up to date.

Easier to show a video. So here.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l3yibo3txJo

Now using something called the Advanced Camera in one particular piece of software called Lightwave3D, you can create the special mesh with UVs to fire the warped rays to allow for the resulting image to be applied as a ...

Same here. We have a pile of licenses for LW at our shop and are anxious to gain access to new features.

Yes, this is really needed. I know this is an old post, but we never got it in Lightwave version either.

Best Christmas gift ever! Our team will be very happy to see this. Thank you.

Any thing that causes reload resets the seed for the IDs. Start and stop a render, even if nothing is set to reload, changes the seed. Since technically it’s reloading when you start again. And of course if you have update materials turned on. This will reset the seed every frame. I can only use ...

Only the first gen M1 Macs seem to run it. The 2021+ Max/Pro/Ultra's make Lightwave vanish when it gets to the final "Rendering..." phase.

I'd like to have the Octane VDB loader be able to load every "x" frame if possible. This way I can "speed up" the playback of the VDB in camera. I know only of the token used for reading in a VDB sequence. "$F"