by chippwalters » Sun Aug 13, 2017 4:51 am
chippwalters
Sun Aug 13, 2017 4:51 am
Ugh. I purchased Octane last December and spent a couple weeks working with it and it was pretty much an unmitigated disaster of a plugin product. I finally ended up getting a full refund with the promise I would purchase it again in the future when the 'bugs are fixed.'
Fast forward 8 months and there's a new version, which I went ahead and purchased so that I could check out the "new and improved" version. It sounds like from the comments people seem to *think* is stable, only not very much for me.
Couple startup questions:
1. Takes forever to launch SU2017 with this plugin. Does it HAVE to RUN at launch? Why not instantiate it when someone presses the Octane button? I will only use Octane once out of every dozen or so SketchUp sessions so why add the overhead?
2. I started messing around with the mouse controls in prefs and it got confused fast. Why no "reset" or "defaults" button? I had to look up a screen capture of the default settings online and then carefully 'reset' them based on what I can only assume is the correct settings. On a related note, are there any mouse settings which 'mirror' SketchUps?
3. I liked how it tracked the SketchUp window, but many, many times after I played around with lighting and material settings, it quit tracking. I could not figure out how to get it to track back.
4. I can make it crash every time by pressing the pause button, then the refresh button (to which I press cancel) and then the pause button again.
Most disappointingly, is the inability to actually create geometry while Octane is open. Here's a very simple scene which crashes immediately and every time. Perhaps someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Below is a Youtube link. The youtube BBCode embed button doesn't work (not surprised).
[youtube]https://youtu.be/AvGLIbLZSJI[/youtube]