Texture compression not reliable

[senorpablo]

Texture compression is not reliable. I've already sat through 10+ minutes of conversion on this scene, and now it's doing it all over again.

Please start testing Octane with production scenes. When is someone most likely to use compressed textures? When you have a scene with gig's of textures that won't fit into GPU memory. Not with three spheres, a cube and a teapot.

If compression was happening on individual files, rather than some obscure, massive cache file, it would be more robust. Furthermore, everyone who touches the scene wouldn't have to sit through the same delays.

[paride4331]

Hi senorpablo,
Octane for 3dsMAx 4.0x save textures compression on the fly, new 2018.x makes available texture compression cache on disk, settable in global preferences.
Regards
Paride

[HHbomb]

Hi Paride, and where is the cache located ?

[paride4331]

Hi coilbook,
C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Local\OctaneRender\cache\texCache\imageTex\
Regards
Paride

[HHbomb]

Thanks

[HHbomb]

So, it could be usefull to trash some files from time to time.... I have 13Go of cache files from december and I don't use large textures.

[paride4331]

So, it could be usefull to trash some files from time to time.... I have 13Go of cache files from december and I don't use large textures.

Hi HHbomb,
we're testing 2018.1, I will ask about this to developers.
Regeards
Paride

[senorpablo]

Hi coilbook,
C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Local\OctaneRender\cache\texCache\imageTex\
Regards
Paride

That doesn't address the fact that it's unreliable. My scene was compressing textures over and over again.

[paride4331]

Hi coilbook,
C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Local\OctaneRender\cache\texCache\imageTex\
Regards
Paride

That doesn't address the fact that it's unreliable. My scene was compressing textures over and over again.

Hi senorpablo,
V4 > compress on the fly ( every time)
V2018.x > texture compression cache on disk
Regards