I do agree the Daz plugin has a lot of room for improvement. I stopped upgrading at 4, but I've been here since before Octane (standalone) left beta.

How about the thousands of Daz users who try the plugin, see the results and figure Octane is fast but looks nowhere near as good as Iray and ...

Great news and good luck. I haven't been super active here in a long time, mostly because it felt that the Daz plugin was a step-child here at Otoy. I actually did start working with some other workflows, but I've stuck to using my old clunker OCDS with all of it's quirks.

So glad to see that Otoy ...

I wonder if face_off has previously mentioned why something along the lines of what @Notiusweb suggested is not a capability within this plugin. This is an area where the Poser plugin he worked on seems more capable - maybe it's due to Daz limitations, I do not know.

Daz studio has limitations ...

1. I don't think so since its not integrated into daz that way. Basically daz doesn't know it even exists. I could be wrong but..been using it a long time and don't think it is possible.

2. I don't think so, can't say I've had that happen. I don't think there is a button to do this. Maybe a bug ...

face_off wrote:

OctaneRender_for_DazStudio_3_08_5_39_Win64_STUDIO.exe is the one that gave me an issue

That is the STUDIO installer, which you will need a studio subscription to run. Thus the error that displayed for you.

Paul

thanks

face_off wrote:What was the name of the installer you used for 3.08 please?

Paul

OctaneRender_for_DazStudio_3_08_5_39_Win64_STUDIO.exe is the one that gave me an issue

OctaneRender_for_DazStudio_3_8_0_38_Win64.exe was OK.

Make sure you scroll the window to ensure you are seeing all the log messages. I'm not sure if the "Invalid data count..." error is coming from the plugin or Octane, but my guess is it is the later, so if you delete your Octane preferences, that may resolve it (there are in one of the folders under ...

Just an FYI I can't activate Octane 3.08. I get messages saying I don't have a subscription and that my license is only compatible with non-subscription releases.

I reinstalled 3.07 and it works fine.

Have you checked the Octane Log when this happens?

Paul

I thought I had something for you, but I don't. I ran into the issue again, and saw this in the log...but its the same message i see when I relaunch daz actually. (attached) Notce the double scroll bars ^_^

Was rendering around 17Ms, then ...

more testing. seems like restarting daz studio fixes the issue. at least sometimes. (i haven't gone back to retest all prior scenes that ran into this)

ill keep an eye on this going forward.

EDIT: Even more testing. sometimes the Ms just tanks after a while even without final render. restarting ...