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OctaneRender™ for Blender plugin. Windows, Linux and OSX versions. The download links, provided on this page, are for Enterprise License Holders.

OctaneRender Studio subscribers can access their software from the "Downloads" section of their Customer Account Page.



NEW FEATURES SINCE LAST RELEASE

• Enhanced the Motion Blur System
  
  • Supported MantaFlow motion blur
  • Supported deforming object motion blur
  • Supported hair motion blur
• Enhanced the Octane Sphere Primitive system
  
  • Supported to use sphere primitive for meshes and imported point clouds ( "Properties-Octane Properties-Sphere Attributes")
  • Supported to use sphere primitive for the Particles and MantaFlow ( "Particle Property-Octane Sphere Primitive Settings")
  • Spheres primitives are way faster to render since there's no geometry present in the scene
  • OctaneBlender will use sphere primitive as particle element when the "Render As" is "Halo" and "Use as Octane Sphere Primitive" is enabled
• Supported Multiple view layer with the render pass system
• Enhanced preview cache resource system
  

FIXES SINCE LAST RELEASE

• Fixed the brighter background issue under IPR when both "Keep Environment" and "Alpha Channel" are on
• Supported OctaneDB for Volumes
• Moved GI Mode checkbox just under Kernel Type
• Fixed camera motion blur bug
• Fixed image format updating issue
• Fixed the "Save to OctaneDB feature" feature
• Fixed the OSL update issue
• Fixed the update issue for the image node with movie sequence
• Fixed the AO texture issue
  

  

KNOWN ISSUES

• There is a crash issue when modifying primitives under the experimental RTX acceleration with the latest drivers. As workarounds, please stick to older versions as long as RTX is supported. Besides, A fix for it is coming soon.

You can read about new features of OctaneRender™ 2020.1 here:
viewtopic.php?f=24&t=74586


The installation consists from two parts:
1. OctaneRender™ Server
2. Blender - OctaneRender™ edition

After starting OctaneServer it will take some time before the LiveDB tree and LiveDB material previews will be available from Blender - as OctaneServer caches the LiveDB data from remote server right after starting. But only the materials groups tree will be re-cached every time after server start, LiveDB material preview images will be cached only once - so only the very first OctaneServer start will need some more time before LiveDB tree will be available in Blender.
After the server is run - you can start rendering (or open a rendered view) from inside Blender.


Windows

DOWNLOAD (both distributives must be reinstalled, they depend on each other)

Blender Octane Edition - 21.8(2.82a)
Octane Server - Enterprise Edition - 21.8


Linux

Installation:
- Just run the installer to see its command line keys.
- If you need to run OctaneServer - run it as daemon:

Code: Select all

$ OctaneServer &

DOWNLOAD

Blender Octane Edition - 21.8 (2.82a) Linux
Octane Server - Enterprise Edition - 21.8 Linux


OSX

DOWNLOAD

Blender Octane Edition - 21.8 (2.82a) OSX
Octane Server - Enterprise Edition - 21.8 OSX



Please note, in regards to Bug Reporting:

- Bug Reports in this section refer to plugin-specific bugs only. Bugs originating from the Octane Standalone should be reported to the Standalone Forum section instead

- For faster troubleshooting, please provide as much information as possible. Please include:

• Your Hardware specifications (unless they are included in your signature)
• A clear description of the issue you have found
• Steps that you took to trigger this bug, so that we can reproduce it (ideally, please also provide screenshots. If possible, files for testing would also be appreciated).
• Whenever possible, please confirm that this issue is only happening in the plugin, and not also in the Standalone Edition (if the bug occurs in both, it is likely that this issue should be reported in the OctaneRender Standalone section of the Forums).

- Please bear in mind - we are primarily an English-Language Forum. Please do not take offense if we request further clarification due to language differences.