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OctaneRender 4 for ArchiCAD
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Mon Mar 19, 2018 11:48 pmby rappet
Hi Paul,
I just saw the post of the new OR4 build which is great news and I am curious about your first thoughts regarding to the new features and the plugin implementation. I do not mean in time schedule but in (im)possibilities.
Greetz,
Re: OctaneRender 4 for ArchiCAD
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Tue Mar 20, 2018 12:25 amby face_off
Too early for any first thoughts - sorry Jeroen!
Paul
Re: OctaneRender 4 for ArchiCAD
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Tue Mar 20, 2018 7:43 amby Daniel_Ward
Just imagine if the ArchiCAD Plug in could be one of the supported versions for the Octane V4 free tier... And Graphisoft let the Octane Plug in talk to the ArchiCAD API in real time...
A man can but dream!
Re: OctaneRender 4 for ArchiCAD
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Tue Mar 20, 2018 11:03 amby rappet
face_off wrote:Too early for any first thoughts - sorry Jeroen!
Paul
Understandable ofcourse and we will wait for your later thoughts
Re: OctaneRender 4 for ArchiCAD
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Mon May 28, 2018 1:26 amby Daniel_Ward
Hi Paul,
do you have any idea on when you will have an opportunity to have a look at the AC plugin for Octane 4? I'm certainly very keen to see how the AI lighting improves our interior rendering process.
Cheers, Dan.
Re: OctaneRender 4 for ArchiCAD
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Mon May 28, 2018 2:41 amby face_off
I think it will be about a month before I start to do the ArchiCAD plugin for Octane 4.
Paul
Re: OctaneRender 4 for ArchiCAD
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Mon May 28, 2018 6:56 amby Jasonr
It's not just the AI that would be interesting but also the denoising that with XB2 uses all the cards according to the release notes.
I wish we could also have direct fbx import through the plug in and also the ability to set shortcuts for certain functions.
Really nice to hear Paul announcing the scheduling for the new version.
Cheers!
Re: OctaneRender 4 for ArchiCAD
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Thu Sep 27, 2018 1:04 pmby ArchPrime
face_off wrote:I think it will be about a month before I start to do the ArchiCAD plugin for Octane 4.
Paul
Great! - so a good 6 months of development already complete on the ArchiCAD plugin for Octane Render 4....(?)
Really hoping there will be Brigade functionality for live walkthroughs with clients better then Enscape 2 currently does, with live updating as objects and materials are changed in the source model. Is this a possibility?
Re: OctaneRender 4 for ArchiCAD
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Wed Oct 03, 2018 4:56 amby face_off
Really hoping there will be Brigade functionality for live walkthroughs with clients better then Enscape 2 currently does, with live updating as objects and materials are changed in the source model. Is this a possibility?
The plugin currently loads the entire ArchiCAD scene into a single Octane Mesh node, so live updating of objects is not currently possible. The initial versions of the plugin had an Octane Mesh object for each ArchiCAD object, but ArchiCAD splits single objects into many meshes, so there were thousands of Octane Mesh objects in a typical scene, and the load time was very slow.
Paul
Re: OctaneRender 4 for ArchiCAD
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Wed Oct 03, 2018 5:17 amby ArchPrime
Damn, live updating would have been the game changer!
Is there a way to structure the plugin with a parallel algorithm where we can voluntarily accept (tick a box) for the slow load time approach, in return for live updating?
Given that the model is seldom fully resolved before rendering begins, there may well be a net overall reduction in time spent loading that way, given that we are currently faced with reloading from scratch each of the many times that geometry changes.
Current approach fairly useless as a way to impress clients looking over our shoulder, who want to see what things look like when we add a window, and I would rather not succumb to Enscape for that, given the otherwise nominally superior technology in Octane.
Will we at least get live walkthrough from ArchiCAD static geometry?
Will an RTX2080 help Octane much with that?