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This is the recommended thread for downloading, and posting any questions, suggestions or support queries for OctaneRender for Rhino - STABLE RELEASE.

Rhino Version
This version requires Rhino5, SR12 or later.

Nvidia Driver Version
This release requires Nvidia drivers 353.x or later.

Network Rendering
For Network Rendering, you must use the Octane slave release 3.03.2 available from the Development Build Releases subforum.

If you have a support issue, pls provide the following information:
- Operating System (ie. Win XP, Vista, 7, 8)
- 32 or 64 bit
- Amount of RAM
- Graphics Card(s) - model (ie. GTX 580, 3GB)
- Nvidia driver version
- Rhino version and build number
- OctaneRender for Rhino version (ie. 2.0.10.8)

For more information...
- Specific Octane 2.0 features in this plugin http://render.otoy.com/manuals/Rhino/?page_id=650
- Watch Iceglance's quickstart tutorial http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=36299
- Read the on-line manual
- Watch the "Getting Started" video http://vimeo.com/73202740
- Read the FAQ
- Post your question on this forum thread

Known Issues
- Prior to rendering a Sun Study, Flythru Animation or Bongo Animation, you must select the Perspective Viewport in Rhino that the animation uses

Limitations
Refer to the on-line manual

Download Links

Download the plugin from the following link:
- OctaneRender for Rhino5 3.3.2.68 (64 bit)

The previous release is available from the following link:
- OctaneRender for Rhino5 3.2.0.66 (64 bit)

The last version of the plugin that was built with 32bit support can be downloaded from:
- OctaneRender for Rhino5 2.24.1.50 (32 & 64 bit)

The last versions of the plugin built with the previous installer can be downloaded from:
- OctaneRender for Rhino5 2.24.0.46 (64 bit)
- OctaneRender for Rhino5 2.24.0.46(32 bit)

Release Notes

See the TEST release thread for release notes.

Paul

Hello Paul,
Great! Almost like Xmas! !!
Thanks

Andreas

Looking forward to it, thanks Paul.

Small note - if Rhino is currently running while installing it says that 'Poser is already running'

Paul,
Having a little issue with Render Passes - all seem to work except for Z-Depth, which shows up in the list of passes but does not change the viewport - does this occur for you also?

Cam

Having a little issue with Render Passes - all seem to work except for Z-Depth, which shows up in the list of passes but does not change the viewport - does this occur for you also?

Fixed in the next release.

Thanks

Paul

Paul,
Is it possible that the changes (fix) to orthographic modes got lost in this release? Doesn't seem to be working for me.

Cam

Is it possible that the changes (fix) to orthographic modes got lost in this release? Doesn't seem to be working for me.

Hi Cam - it is in there- but I only tested on a limited range of different camera settings, so you might have a situation the algorithm does not cater for. Are you able to send me a sample scene where this is not working pls?

Thanks

Paul

face_off wrote:

Is it possible that the changes (fix) to orthographic modes got lost in this release? Doesn't seem to be working for me.

Hi Cam - it is in there- but I only tested on a limited range of different camera settings, so you might have a situation the algorithm does not cater for. Are you able to send me a sample scene where this is not working pls?

Thanks

Paul

Hi Paul,
Have been tracking it down a little more specifically - it is not file specific but instead appears to be related to the document units. It works as expected when the document units are millimeters (regardless of the model). However, upon changing the units the scale appears off by the difference between the two (zoom is 10^1 for cm, 10^3 for metres).

Hope that helps - let me know if you need any more info!

Cam

Thanks Cam - that makes sense. I will try to fix this in the next release.

Paul

Hi Paul,
Getting an error using the 'Render' command (as opposed to opening the OctaneRender viewport) - see attached image. It instead causes the viewport to stop responding (I assume related issue). Thus !_RecordAnimation doesn't currently work unless using viewport geometry (ie. no scripted or bongo animations) amongst other things.

See image:


Also, having a little bit of issue with camera motion blur - I'm not sure if I'm using it properly or not. My process was:

- Set path animation target and camera
- Open OctaneRender viewport
- Press the animation button in OctaneRender. The animation the runs through and prints a whole string of commands to Rhino's console (is this intentional? _ViewFrameNumber?).
- Close the animation window
- Type !_RecordAnimation, save files

I attached screenshots demonstrating this - the 'expected' result (500ms shutter speed) and the rendered outcome. Note that due to the issue listed above this is 'using render viewport geometry' to record the animation.





And lastly, just wondering if there's any way camera motion blur can respond to the camera motion paths of Bongo, and also (less importantly) whether there was any news on the front of object motion blur with Bongo, as IIRC it was discussed a little while ago.

Cam

Edit/Details:
Rhino 5.9.4x
OctaneRender for Rhino 2.10.0.16
Win 7/64
2x GTX 560/Ti
Nvidia Drivers 332.21