Hi,
We tested OctaneRender® for Maya® 3.08RC2 - 12.19-Beta with maya 2018 this time.

Our workflow maya / octane / nuke is always the same :
Image format : EXR, zip, 16bit Half.
Alpha Channel : ON
Premultiplied alpha : ON
Keep environment : OFF
By default we disable aperture on cam (defocus in 2D ...

Hi guys,

You are right, I will post some wanted features in the standalone section.

@Calus, yes, it seems we already worked together. Little CG world in France...

@Calus and Jolbertoquini , I can't join your group on skype. Can you invite me, that could work. my ID is : mayerfrdric.

Thanks.

Ok,

we will run a new batch of tests on this points with the new version.

calus wrote:

ciboulot wrote: IMAGE PLANE

You just need to enable alpha channel in the kernel node.

Yep, we already tried but it doesn't work. We will give it a try on the 2018 version then

Thanks Calus for all the help.

What do you think of this version?

Indeed you are right, if the bugs are differents from maya version to another, we are in deep shit.

@BK: DId you receive the latest reports and demands? What do you think.

@Calus: Maybe, you can PM me so we can exchange our mails ...

Hi Calus.
Thank you for your reply but your scene with RGB mask in Oct RP&ass attribut gives that in octane 3.8RC2 and RC1 :

ok,

just saw this feature:

- You can now render several Octane layers in one batch render session - just specify the coma-separated list of layer numbers in Octane global "Batch render layers" setting.

If it is well implemented, it can be a start for a godd work in VFX.
Great

Hi all,

here are our first in depth report.
Some of the problems may be from since the 3.01, but we prefer to mention them all.
All tests are done with octane plug 3.08 rc1 - 12.15 beta, maya 2016.5 no sp, win7, 980x3 or 1070tix3.
Dirver version 390.77 We will test with the 12.19 beta to see if ...

Hi all,

here are our first in depth report.
Some of the problems may be from since the 3.01, but we prefer to mention them all.
All tests are done with octane plug 3.08 rc1 - 12.15 beta, maya 2016.5 no sp, win7, 980x3 or 1070tix3.
Dirver version 390.77

RGB MASK:
- Still no solution to render ...

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You can find a rigged backplate background scene in this tutorial post:
https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=126&t=65566

This is to avoid the terrible image plane implementation in OctaneForMaya,
and workaround the still broken "camera mapped texture" ....


Hi Calus,

Thank you so ...