OctaneRender™ 2019.1.5 [current 2019.1.x] Tweet

[abstrax]

Hi all,

This release contains more fixes for 2019.1.x. To find an overview of the features of 2019.1 please go here.

Also make sure that you have a NVIDIA driver of version 419.x or higher.


Changes since OctaneRender 2019.1.4:

• Improved rounded edges rendering (in accurate mode). The rounded edges node has now a new pin Samples which allows you to control the accuracy of the rounded edges. The higher its value the better it handles corner cases like sharp corners and edges but also takes longer to calculate.
• Fixed autobump which didn't work correctly for projection types other than mesh UV (see viewtopic.php?p=372548#p372548).
• Fixed missing updates in displacement mixer trees (see viewtopic.php?p=372294#p372294).
• Fixed incorrect access of pins during set up of displacement causing error message "Tried to access null node" (see viewtopic.php?p=372317#p372317).
• Fixed microfacet BRDFs for metallic/universal materials with high roughness (regression from 2018.1).
• Fixed the default behavior of universal material when the roughness pin is not connected.
• Fixed dirt node not working with composite materials (see viewtopic.php?p=372738#p372738).
• Fixed too bright rendering of glossy surfaces behind specular surfaces with the direct lighting kernel in diffuse GI mode.
• Fixed fake shadow being switched off when albedo is > 0 in universal material (see viewtopic.php?p=374532#p374532).
• Fixed mix material being ignored when it is connected to a layered material (see viewtopic.php?p=374501#p374501).
• Fixed slightly incorrect sampling of importance sampled environments.
• Fixed various memory leaks in Octane and libraries used by it.
• Fixed access violation when changing render geometry and peer-to-peer memory (NVlink) is being used.
• Fixed crash when expaning an universal camera out of a node pin.
• Fixed broken connection after an externally connected camera node gets replaced by an universal camera graph.
• Standalone: Fixed incorrect scaling on Apple retina displays.
• Standalone: Fixed application settings pane being cut off on the right depending on your system font size.

Downloads

Downloads for Enterprise subscription users:

OctaneRender Enterprise Standalone for Windows (installer)
OctaneRender Enterprise Standalone for Windows (ZIP archive)
OctaneRender Enterprise Standalone for MacOS
OctaneRender Enterprise Standalone for Linux

OctaneRender Enterprise Slave for Windows (installer)
OctaneRender Enterprise Slave for Windows (ZIP archive)
OctaneRender Enterprise Slave for MacOS
OctaneRender Enterprise Slave for Linux

Downloads for Studio subscription users:

OctaneRender Studio Standalone for Windows (installer)
OctaneRender Studio Standalone for Windows (ZIP archive)
OctaneRender Studio Standalone for MacOS
OctaneRender Studio Standalone for Linux

Demo downloads:

OctaneRender Demo Standalone for Windows (installer)
OctaneRender Demo Standalone for Windows (ZIP archive)
OctaneRender Demo Standalone for MacOS
OctaneRender Demo Standalone for Linux


Happy rendering
Your OTOY NZ team

[SSmolak]

NVLink memory pooling still doesn't work using two RTX 2080ti

[funk]

Thanks team

[andrey.krivulya]

NVLink memory pooling still doesn't work using two RTX 2080ti

Yes, the developers still working on the 2x2080Ti NVlink support.

[J.C]

Thank you for the update!

[Zay]

Any news on fixing the Upsampler on Windows 7 ?

[WIPEXPO]

Hi,
There is a bug with a shadow catcher and alpha texture input.

shadow catcher stops working when u plug alpha texture ( attached ) to opacity channel.

4.05 - fine
2019.1.4 - bug
2019.1.5 - bug

[Silverwing]

Thank you very much for this new release.
Great to see that the dirt bug in the composit material has been taken care of. Unfortunately however there is still part of the bug left.
If you connect a dirt node to the 1st material in line the dirt works. But all consecutive materials do not schow any effect of connected dirt nodes if the material before has one attached.

I attached two images.

Image 1
In the first one the material with a Dirt should be toned red to green, but the whole material shows red, because the Dirt is not active (bug)
In the above (white) material the dirt works as expected.

Octane_2019.1.6_Component_Dirt_01.png

Image 2
I reversed the materials. Now the red to green gradient is showing but the Dirt in the white material is missing.

Octane_2019.1.6_Component_Dirt_02.png

Thanks in advance for looking into it.

Cheers,
Raphael

[rajib]

Hello Otoy Team,

I have an issue with an invisible geometry casting shadow on SSS material. Please take a look at viewtopic.php?f=24&t=73537. Hope it can be fixed. I have included a test scene in that post.

Regards,
Rajib

[Zay]

Is this a bug or user error?
Im trying to hide a light source behind a specular material, but can't seem to do it.

test.png

lighttest.orbx