I'm trying to render a scene with over 100000 polygons (more than 12000 elements), and it takes ages every time I want to load the scene.

In Task Manager, it appears that while Octane is loading the scene it only uses one CPU core, and only uses about 10% of it. Is there any way to get Octane to ...

Thanks,

I just found the 'clay rendering mode' in the Octane Render Viewport. I think this does the trick for me in this instance.

Is there any way to control the material used in clay rendering mode?

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I'm looking for a way to convert all my materials to one nominated material at rendertime.

ie: I've assigned all my objects with various materials, but I want to render the scene with one default material. is this possible?

Andrew

got it working guys!
the render says .29 Msamples/sec (not sure if that's fast, I didn't check what it was before!)
in any case it does 'seem' to be rendering faster so thanks for your input!

I know it's an old card but if it works, then I might spend the money to get a faster one.

thanks guys! I'm gonna give it a try!

Im trying to speed up my renderings and have an old GTX260 sitting in a box. Would it help to add it into my machine to speed up rendering?

Is it as simple as putting the extra card in the slot?

Sorry for the newbie question

Andrew

awesome, that worked. thanks!

Rhino 5 (5.6.31028)
Octane 1.20.1.17

I do have other windows open, but this bug hasn't happened (this badly) until today. Perhaps its something to do with my network speed? We seem to be running a little slower today.
Having the material library locally would be a real plus. An option to download ...

Looking forward to it! I can't seem to get LiveDB to work at all today. Every time I try to load a material the dialog says 'working' for about 5 seconds before I get a "(not responsive)" message and everything freezes.

Anything I can do to fix this in the short term?

Hi Paul,

No timeout messages for me, just frozen viewports. Sometimes I get a couple of "Loading LiveDB Material" windows that sit in the background and can't be closed. Today I didn't get the loading window, and everything froze. Task Manager showed rhino as 'running' but it was not responsive...