I just really hope Otoy doesn't get kicked around by Autodesk into not playing friendly to any outside competition. AutoDesk does have a big history in this area. Would love more than anything to one day see an integrated Octane Viewport up and active in Rhino!

mib2berlin wrote:Hi, it seams you hit the texture limit from cuda:

Thanks for the Response 'mib' just the simple answer I was looking for!

....reduce scene complexity....

in lehman's term.... what does this say?

too many node points? do i need to go to the master model i have in rhino and join more objects together?

thank you

just curious. I assume no standard MAX material creation Translates in any form, over into the active Octane Live Previewer, right? All materials that were made anywhere prior by others will not come over as any standard diffuses? (without any of the octane enhancements,) if so, is there a point in ...

I've only been able to have emitters display a very diffused emission, even when using an .ies that shows a harder edge representation in it's definition, but affects the scene like the other lights... really diffused

Thank You

I appreciate your response!
it's still a little fuzzy to me, though, if I need to completely 'clean' all indications of a driver ahead of installing a new one.. I have been through this so many times now, and will always find some kind of critical error on any nvidia driver... I didn't get out of ...

My render window completely freezes after only turning a minute bit

Any Ideas?


BTW - I am using the most current driver 285.58, and I have checked the original Beta of Octane and all works fine on that version

Thank You for any help you can give on this matter

just freezes and sticks there for ...

I've never had luck with updating any NVIDIA drivers. Anytime I've ever had to change out from the default (sent stock) manufacturer's version sent with the card, I always experience system freezing results. It seems now I have Random system seizures whenever I have a browser open for a while (could ...

Is it all that necessary to always be updating the graphics driver?
Can one just update on the CUDA part and leave the Gdriver alone?
I have found more times than not that anytime I update on a Gdriver
The result is untennable and since I'm doing this all here on the system
I built here at my job, I ...

Let's just hope a Tornado doesn't suck it's way through this one..