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Octane Shuts Down When Voxelizing

PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:29 am
by greg.thoman
Hey all,
I'm using the demo right now, while I wait for my license to come to fruition.
I'm exporting from Blender to the WaveFront format. When I load the Obj file in octane, it shuts down during the Voxelizing stage. Has anyone else had this trouble and con point me in the right direction?
Thanks very much.

Re: Octane Shuts Down When Voxelizing

PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:30 am
by understand
mm maybe you got some polygons that aren't 3 or 4 sides or some floating vertices

Re: Octane Shuts Down When Voxelizing

PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 9:04 am
by SurfingAlien
with low-end cards (see my sign...) it might be a memory issue too I think

Re: Octane Shuts Down When Voxelizing

PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:23 am
by PhilBo
Also, make sure that you are not exporting "edges" and click on the "triangulate" option.

Re: Octane Shuts Down When Voxelizing

PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:06 am
by greg.thoman
All good suggestions.
I'm running a GTS 250 with 1Gb memory.
I'm not sure if this is a "low end" card or not.
I've been exporting as Triangles. I'll keep at it. Thanks for the suggestions!

Re: Octane Shuts Down When Voxelizing

PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 1:26 pm
by radiance
if you're using the 32bit version for windows, or mac OS X, you have a limited amount of memory avaiable.
i'd recommend upgrading to a x64 operating system.

Radiance

Re: Octane Shuts Down When Voxelizing

PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:25 pm
by greg.thoman
I have windows 7 64-bit with 8 Gig of Ram
Thanks for the advice.

Re: Octane Shuts Down When Voxelizing

PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:40 pm
by radiance
greg.thoman wrote:I have windows 7 64-bit with 8 Gig of Ram
Thanks for the advice.


you should use the x64 version then.
if there are still issues during voxelising, make sure, like phil said to export your model as triangles.

Radiance

Re: Octane Shuts Down When Voxelizing

PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:43 pm
by simmsimaging
I've had this happen a lot with high res meshes too. At this point I'm kinda holding off playing with Octane till I can get a bit more stable workflow with hi-res meshes and fairly high res renders (for me 4K is bare minimum)

b

Re: Octane Shuts Down When Voxelizing

PostPosted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:59 pm
by radiance
simmsimaging wrote:I've had this happen a lot with high res meshes too. At this point I'm kinda holding off playing with Octane till I can get a bit more stable workflow with hi-res meshes and fairly high res renders (for me 4K is bare minimum)

b


it's about time nvidia released 3GB fermi cards. :)

Radiance