Octane 2024.1 Alpha 2 for Unreal Engine - 0.74 Optimizations Tweet

[ChrisHekman]

Octane for Unreal Engine

Changes:

• Updated to OctaneRender 2024.1 Alpha 2
• Optimizations: Plugin scene update is much faster due to multiple optimizations
• Optimizations: Plugin loads/unloads levels much faster
• Optimizations: Plugin scene updating now handles decals much faster
• Optimizations: Plugin can handle larger scenes in terms of cpu performance
• Materials: Added support for blackbody node

Fixes:

• Export: Fixed multilevel ERX export issue where it would not export all layers
• Lights: Fixed possible but rare pointlight crash
• Geometry: Fixed possible but rare -1 material index

UE 5.3
Studio+ Installer: https://www.otoyserver.com/unrealengine ... _UE5_3.exe
Free Version Installer: https://www.otoyserver.com/unrealengine ... _UE5_3.exe

UE 5.2
Studio+ Installer: https://www.otoyserver.com/unrealengine ... _UE5_2.exe
Free Version Installer: https://www.otoyserver.com/unrealengine ... _UE5_2.exe

[docrender]

Struggling to find ANY help on how to render animation out of UE 5.3 using OCTANE. Literally ZERO information and help documents - Movie Render Queue seemed to be non functional with OCTANE. Is there any chance for input on the topic?

[warpdrive]

Struggling to find ANY help on how to render animation out of UE 5.3 using OCTANE. Literally ZERO information and help documents - Movie Render Queue seemed to be non functional with OCTANE. Is there any chance for input on the topic?

Hello! The old Unreal Render works with Octane. It's quite glitchy, for example sometimes there are chaotic camera angles that I didn't do. However, it works.
My opinion, Movie Render Queue is not needed for Octane. All settings are in the Octane core.

[ChrisHekman]

Struggling to find ANY help on how to render animation out of UE 5.3 using OCTANE. Literally ZERO information and help documents - Movie Render Queue seemed to be non functional with OCTANE. Is there any chance for input on the topic?

Hello! The old Unreal Render works with Octane. It's quite glitchy, for example sometimes there are chaotic camera angles that I didn't do. However, it works.
My opinion, Movie Render Queue is not needed for Octane. All settings are in the Octane core.

Thanks this is correct - currently we only truely support the legacy renderer. And the MRQ is only partially supported in editor
Would it be possible for you to share the scene with me that has the chaotic camera angels?