OctaneRender™ for LightWave™ 1.5 beta - build 1.23.2 Tweet

[FrankPooleFloating]

I had not spent any real time thinking about it, but on some level, I'm sure I was expecting gradients to be somewhat similar to the LW ones and be able to use stuff like distance from pivot etc in a pull-down menu (like LW). These seem like they are not worth the trouble (for me personally). I will just keep doing stuff in uv textures. When I saw the (texture image) gradient plugged into the node that is supposed to be making gradients, I knew this was not for me.

Thanks again Juanjo!... I am loving everything else!

[Escelce]

Thank you all so much for the work you're doing with this. Amazing Plugin.

-Steve

[marchermitte]

It seems I found another bug (?) with the lights: light is 0% opaque but is still visible in the material ID pass.

[juanjgon]

It seems that light exclusion doesn't work:

Or did I miss something?
(using Lightwave 11.6 btw)

Sorry. Light exclusion is not supported by Octane currently.

-Juanjo

[juanjgon]

I had not spent any real time thinking about it, but on some level, I'm sure I was expecting gradients to be somewhat similar to the LW ones and be able to use stuff like distance from pivot etc in a pull-down menu (like LW). These seem like they are not worth the trouble (for me personally). I will just keep doing stuff in uv textures. When I saw the (texture image) gradient plugged into the node that is supposed to be making gradients, I knew this was not for me.

Thanks again Juanjo!... I am loving everything else!

Yes, currently gradients are only a Octane textures multi-mixer, driven by other Octane texture (AFAIK). You could search in the forum for examples in Standalone using the gradient node, perhaps you could find more uses for it.

-Juanjo

[juanjgon]

It seems I found another bug (?) with the lights: light is 0% opaque but is still visible in the material ID pass.

I will test it, but I think that the opacity setting doesn't exclude objects in the buffers.

-Juanjo

[marchermitte]

"Sorry. Light exclusion is not supported by Octane currently."
Oh... sorry, I've seen the video on Vimo and that was one of the features demonstrated so, I thought that was already implemented.
edit: just double checked the video and that was on the objects render properties, not the lights. I went ahead too fast! Thank you!

[juanjgon]

"Sorry. Light exclusion is not supported by Octane currently."
Oh... sorry, I've seen the video on Vimo and that was one of the features demonstrated so, I thought that was already implemented.

The video show how you can change a parameter in multiple lights at the same time, or how to hide the lights for the camera, but Octane Standalone and it's API don't support light exclusion currently.

-Juanjo

[gordonrobb]

Every time I try to change the intensity or efficiency of multiple lights at the same time, I get a crash.

[juanjgon]

Every time I try to change the intensity or efficiency of multiple lights at the same time, I get a crash.

Oppps ... here all works fine. Can you post the scene with this problem to test it here?

-Juanjo