Sounds great, thanks!

Regarding the odd render instance issue, you can also see it in my provided example with the alembic file. Seems like the live viewer works correctly most of the time, but try and render to picture viewer and you can see the first frame the transforms for the render instances ...

Sounds great, thanks! Seems like it's a pretty workaround!

Any progress on the pesky motion blur bug when render instanced geo is loaded on the first frame?

Hi,

Latest release of plugin Cinema4D version 2023.1.3-R3 seems to have a bug where applying shaders to alembic files no longer works.

Additionally motion blur for the first frame of render is not correct when using render instances. This bug has been around for a while.

See attached file ...

I don't have animation on the spline here, I tried to make it a bit simple and show what I believe is the core issue, namely that render instances are not working correctly on first frame when rendering.

Note that live viewer will be correct, but render view is only correct on the second frame ...

GUID fixes the issue, we initially thought that was a fix, but that merely disables object motion blur. This scene does not not have instance animation, but we've confirmed it internally across multiple installs.

In regards to the renderfarm: We're running C4D commandline on the nodes, and not ...

Bug in instancing.

There seems to be a bug with loading instances on the first frame of animation. The bug has been around for a few releases, but has been difficult for us to recreate, as there may also be some interplay with object motion blur calculations. We're working on trying to figure out ...

@aoktar Any insight into what could be causing this? I think we started having the problem when we upgraded out pipeline to Octane 2022.X.X.

Thanks, for confirming.

Something funny it most definately going on with env. For what it's worth, we've had a somewhat related problem with having two envs, one with actual GI env and one with a solid color, as a backplate. Changing the color input node from C4Ds native color node to Octane ...

Hi,

We're running Cinema4D 2023.2.2 // Build 2023_6e264f0cee3c_902435294 + Octane 2022.1.2-[R3], and we're experiencing some odd behavior across multiple render nodes, namely that HDRI does not always load reliably. Environment texture is loaded from the centralized NAS.

The error is pretty ...