Not much to do besides hiding as much geo as you can. You can use nulls tagged for display in sops, and your actual geometry marked for render output.
Other solution would be to get a cheap secondary graphics card for your display and leave the powerful GPU for rendering only.

Hi Ricky, thanks for your quick reply.

I will prepare a scene shortly. Meanwhile just a note this is not about IPR but rather offline rendering to disk. It just takes a lot of time between frames. Specifically just before the sampling kicks in. I used detail wrangles to printf when geo gets cooked ...

Hi all,

Just wondering - when I have a heavy geo that is mostly static through all the frames of the animation, just a few points get shifted on one frame in the middle of the sequence. Is the plugin smart enought to detect that and not do any updates for most of the time, but just does it at the ...

Hi,
Just noticed... enabling coating at an universal material, even to a very tiny amount (i.e. 0.001), is undoing disable diffuse switches on lights.
However when coating is at exactly zero, disable diffuse is respected again.

See the attached screenshot.

I'm using most recent version of Octane ...

Thanks for the work Ahmet!
Is it possible to have custom AOV names actually go into file names?
I mean - it is possible to enter a name in each AOV node, be it cryptomatte, object id, etc. but that does nothing really, as the files are named like before with built-in pass suffixes, like cm-mnn, ocol ...

Image Tiles node is still dumb.
In case the file name is for example char_DefaultMaterial_BaseColor_v03.1001.tif image tiles node replaces the version number with tile number and ends up with a file name like this char_DefaultMaterial_BaseColor_v01.0001.tif .
Please note the version number gets ...

Hi all,
about VDB rendering, there is a known issue introduced in 2020.1.1 SDK, and still not solved in 2020.1.2 SDK in loading VDB version 223.
The core devs are on it, and the issue will be fixed in the next SDK update.
Please go back to 2020.1-R7, if you need to render VDB files.
c4doctane 2020 ...

aoktar wrote:

bartolos wrote:Is it me, or the timers stopped working?

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Not clear to me what you ask!

Sorry for not being clear. The timers in the commandline render always show 0 time for render and total. I am actually using those numbers for my control scripts.

Is it me, or the timers stopped working?

Hello,

FYI:
When using RENDER INSTANCES where the original (source) object is hidden under a null *and* the "ignore unused materials" render setting is enabled - the instances will get a random scene material assigned, instead of the materials assigned to the original (source) objects.

B.