is there still no way to mix displacement maps other than via (sloooow) COPS workaround/hack?
(which in some cases isn`t even a way to go)
i cant`t get it to work, and last forum thread i found was in 2022... which basically says no...
?!
thanks for any idea!!!!

any updates regarding METAL benchmarks?

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Jan

a late followup,

i found the reason for my scene beeing darker in Octane 2022 as i found out that my problem is not colour-space or alikes but the keepInstancePower checkbox that was added to OctaneLights in 2022, and is on by default.
So opening a file built with a previous version, and using ...

thank you so much blobbybarack and juanjgon for your answers!!!

i`m aware of the opengl shaders, and it already helps A LOT to use them the way you described...
and also found some more infos in your links.
in fact i was wondering if there is a way to fetch an already mixed Texture or layered ...

is there any way to access e.g. the color values of an Octane-RGB-Color node for use in the Opengl Parameters of the OctaneMaterialBuilder-Node?
Or the texture/colors of a RGBImageNode or MixTextureNode etc for use in the OpenGl ogl_tex1 Paramter?

many thanks for any hint!!

jn

yes the settings didn`t change... and settings are in the screenshot.
also i attached an example render where the difference is visible...


settings.png
Screenshot 2023-01-27 142542.png
right: Mplay image with enable OpenColorIO deactivated, with rendering of Octane2021
left: IPR Octane 2022 ...

i guess it is due to color management that a scene built with Octane 2021 renders much darker in Octane 2022...
what did change? and how to get back to former brightness and colors?


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Jan

are there any plans to support MaterialX in Octane Render in the near future?

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jn

ok i found the answer to my (clueless) question,
(just in case anyone has the same problem)
i though i wouldn`t understand shadow passes fully, but it turned out that the extremely noisy shadowpass was due to light emitting materials in the scene.
After deselecting "cast shadows" on the emitting ...

might be a totally noob question, but:
I was searching for a good way to render a denoised shadow pass but found no satisfying answer so far.
any help highly apreciated!

i tried Auxiliary->Shadows => VERY NOISY (why?)(a lot more than Beauty, even without AIDenoiser)(And no Denoised-Beatuy-Shadow ...