We're happy to bring you RC 2 of 2022.1. We are getting closer to the first stable release, and expecting to wrap up very soon.
Thank you to everyone who has tested the XB and RC releases so far.
Changes since 2022.1 RC 1
- Fixed an error message appearing by mistake.
- Fixed gizmos not working correctly with lookat to transform.
- Improvements to the Star field texture
- Fixed a rare crash / slowdown when dealing with very small step lengths on volumes.
- Fixed texture previews of several textures.
- Fixed missing update when the (sky) texture of an environment node is reconnected "behind" a linker node and fixed that we were ignoring UVW transform nodes until the first texture node.
- Fixed volume denoiser on macOS.
- Fixed possible crash when using photon mapping.
- Fixed smooth and anisotropic flags on hair material on macOS.
- Fixed crash when doing a texture preview with "Capture to AOV".
- Fixed various problems when "Enable imager" is disabled for an output AOV.
- Improved GPU load for photon tracing.
- Fixed crash when dismissing the context menu of an empty input pin in the node inspector.
- Fixed a crash when compiling some OSL shaders.
- Fixed an infinite loop that happened sometimes when compiling shaders on macOS.
- Fixed a small memory leak.
- Improved random sampling strategy for photon tracing.
- Fixed Composite material having a faceted look when it has no inputs.
- Fixed the normals used for thin wall layer shadows.
- Fixed discarded environment when using the denoiser on macOS.
Downloads
Downloads for Enterprise subscription users:
OctaneRender Enterprise 2022.1 RC 2 for Windows (installer)
OctaneRender Enterprise 2022.1 RC 2 for Windows (ZIP archive)
OctaneRender Enterprise 2022.1 RC 2 for Linux
OctaneRender Enterprise 2022.1 RC 2 Node for Windows (installer)
OctaneRender Enterprise 2022.1 RC 2 Node for Windows (ZIP archive)
OctaneRender Enterprise 2022.1 RC 2 Node for Linux
Downloads for Studio subscription users:
OctaneRender Studio 2022.1 RC 2 for Windows (installer)
OctaneRender Studio 2022.1 RC 2 for Windows (ZIP archive)
OctaneRender Studio 2022.1 RC 2 for Linux
Downloads for Prime version for macOS:
Octane X Prime 2022.1 RC 2 for macOS
Happy rendering
Your OTOY team