Hey all,

I seem to be running into an issue with displacement lately. I had not come into contact with this before because I usually bake displacement maps onto meshes which are still decently dense. However, I have been meaning recently to bake onto much sparser meshes and have been running into ...

Hello all,

Thanks for all of your replies. I investigated a little, and I could not seem to find any Threadripper boards on the market with more than 6 PCI-E slots, which would mean using a bunch of PCI-E splitters if I wanted to reach the originally desired number of cards.

As far as using less ...

Hey Anton,

Thanks for your reply. The motherboard I selected has 12 1x and 1 16x PCIE ports, so I did expect to barely have enough lanes (using only 1x lane in the 16x port) despite using this MB + CPU. Despite this, the second option you are putting forward is interesting even if it does entail ...

Hello all,

I am posting this message because I am looking to get some feedback from people more experienced than I with multi-GPU builds.

I am currently working on a machine with an RTX 2070 and a GTX 1080 Ti, and am rendering quite a bit of video. This regularly results in spending directed ...

Hey aoktar, just to keep you updated on what we ended up doing ; we converted all of our RGB textures to BC1 compression in .dds format outside of Octane. We are getting almost all of the VRAM savings that we had using compression inside Octane, but it is very stable and we have had no crashes.

Hey aoktar, I don't mean to press you, but have you had a chance have a look into it ? Do you have any news ?

Ah, sorry about that, I started work on another scene which also crashed, so the bugreport has most likely been overwritten, although the crash happened in almost exactly the same circumstances as the previous one :
- Different scene,
- Scene was stable previously,
- i started assigning BC3 ...

Thanks aoktar, here are the log and the screenshot :

It is happening only in this specific scene, and only since I started using VRAM texture compression. I tried working with disabled node previews, but the plugin just crashed again - gracefully this time.

Hey aoktar, thanks again for that sound advice. Unfortunately I switched to V4.05-R2 and the file keeps crashing the plugin very frequently - frequently enough that as-is, it is impossible to work on. While before it was still handling crashes gracefully, now C4D freezes when changing the material ...