The 2026 implementation of Splats is already amazing, I'd personally love to see 2 things added in functionality (if possible) to really take it over the top and those are:
1. Clipping material interacts with the splats.|
Currently there aren't the best tools out there to clean up splats but ...

Hello,

Checking on the expected release cadence of 2026 builds?

We've got some Gaussian splatting work which I'd love to explore in Octane and my initial efforts didn't work so well - I'll ask a question below about that in case I've missed something in the current build.

Re: Gaussian splat ...

materials tab still not working properly...
Could you please describe what exactly is not working?

https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=82172

i am aware that daz studio itself is crappy, still i cant really use it any longer and i bet i am not the only one, who knows how many ...

gaazsi wrote:materials tab still not working properly...

Could you please describe what exactly is not working?

I think I found a way to reproduce the steps.

1. Create two point lights and a plane (I set mine to roughness=1)
2. Set the Light Geometry to Disc (I didn't test any other)
3. For the first light, in the Octane tab, right-click the light surface and create a new light source
4. For the second ...

When I add a secondary point light, and set it to analytic too, it doesn't show on the viewport.

Is there any specific operation that I missed ?
Could you please provide the exact steps how you create/setup the first and the second light?

I think I found a way to reproduce the steps.

1. Create ...

sudisk wrote:When I add a secondary point light, and set it to analytic too, it doesn't show on the viewport.

Is there any specific operation that I missed ?

Could you please provide the exact steps how you create/setup the first and the second light?

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SOLUTIONS TO COMMON ISSUES

1) Make sure your NVIDIA drivers are up to date.

2) Make sure you are running the ...

thanulee wrote:Hi, where is the 20.0.547 version?
The last one that is supported here, is the previous stable build

We are planning to release it early next week

I can try this.
Although this is on a brand new scene with a fresh octane install
Happens every time I open the file, and every time I start a render
If the scene was created in the plugin version 2023.1, there should not be problems like that. It would be helpful if you could share this scene ...