by JimStar » Wed Oct 07, 2020 9:36 pm
JimStar
Wed Oct 07, 2020 9:36 pm
If you get any crashes - you need to do a detailed report, with the scene attached and the step-by-step how-to-reproduce description...
The mat/tex preview functionality is slow on the Octane engine level, there is nothing a plugin could do in this regard. Moreover, it is not thread-safe, so the plugin can't even speed it up by doing all the previews in parallel - it is forced to do this in the main thread one-by-one, which stutters the Maya UI. I already discussed this with engine team long time ago, and they have in mind to improve it in future.
When you set the spp to "0" - it completely disables the previews generation, the plugin never calls the preview API of the engine (which affects viewport, swatches and even UV-editor preview). So if you get crashes - this could be anything else, including Maya's own or some other plugins' bugs (e.g. Maya's 2020 new "cached playback" crashes all the time with Octane when enabled, this is some newly introduced Maya's bug). Thus I need your scene and a reproduce description from you to investigate what's happening on your side...