This is the third public experimental build of 2021.1. It fixes some rather urgent issues reported by the plugin developers.
As with all experimental builds, we advise to not to use this release for production purposes. We are trying to, but we can't guarantee that scenes saved with this version will be compatible in future releases.
Please make sure to use a NVIDIA Studio driver with version at least 456.38 on Windows or 455.23 on Linux.
Changes since OctaneRender 2021.1 XB2:
- Improved normal distortion of Flakes texture when used as normal map.
- Added new Base color input to the Flakes texture.
- Fixed textures Flakes, Glowing and Hagelslag to work correctly with projections other than UV mapping.
- Fixed new procedural effects textures to work correctly with projections hat a have a W-coordinate that is not 0.
- Changed time input of Moire mosaic texture from [0 .. 2] to [0 .. 1].
- Improved "Frame" shape of Moire mosaic texture.
- Fixed failure during material preview rendering on Kepler, Maxwell and Pascal GPUs if the main render hasn't started yet.
- Fixed rendering of OOC image textures with an invalid projection or UVW transformation (e.g. with a scale of 0) to produce the value for UV coordinate (0,0) and not render black. This is now conistent to the behaviour of non-OOC images whereas before multi-GPU setups might have shown render tiles due to image textures being in OOC memory on some GPUs and in VRAM on others.
- Fixed unnecessary render restarts (see viewtopic.php?p=402203#p402203).
- Fixed some corner cases in the RGB-to-spectrum conversion.
- Updated to OCIO v2.0.1 which fixes look transformations that are no-ops (see viewtopic.php?p=402146#p402146).
- Fixed sheen layer rendering artifacts when you change the IOR inside a glossy material.
- Fixed post-processing AOV not working in a composite output AOV.
- Standalone: Added possibility to drag USD files into the graph editor or import them via the import menu item.
Downloads
Downloads for Enterprise subscription users:
OctaneRender Enterprise 2021.1 XB3 Standalone for Windows (installer)
OctaneRender Enterprise 2021.1 XB3 Standalone for Windows (ZIP archive)
OctaneRender Enterprise 2021.1 XB3 Standalone for Linux
OctaneRender Enterprise 2021.1 XB3 Node Windows (installer)
OctaneRender Enterprise 2021.1 XB3 Node for Windows (ZIP archive)
OctaneRender Enterprise 2021.1 XB3 Node for Linux
Downloads for Studio subscription users:
OctaneRender Studio 2021.1 XB3 Standalone for Windows (installer)
OctaneRender Studio 2021.1 XB3 Standalone for Windows (ZIP archive)
OctaneRender Studio 2021.1 XB3 Standalone for Linux
Happy rendering
Your OTOY team