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jfcalcena wrote:Hello guys. Nothing works here. I already activated in Addon Octane Render and change it in the Renderer menu to Octane and nothing happens. I missing something? I followed exactly the steps informed in this thread and nothing works here. Follow prints. Thanks!

ChrisH wrote:

Lukasesch wrote:Anyone else has the problem of Octane Daylight Environment making the scene contrast corrupt? With emmisive lights it looks fine.

Make sure you turn off "Filmic", it doesn't really work with Octane.
Other people (and Devs!?) might tell you to set the Display Device to "None" in the Color Management, and that's probably the 100% correct way to do it (and that's what I did for 2.79).
I have the View Transform set to "Raw", it's 99% the same, but it doesn't screw up the colors in the viewport (solid shading etc). The colors you set in the materials might not be 100% what you get in the rendering, but I can't see the difference (I rarely care about exact color values anyways, if it looks good it's good. [light/shading will probably have a greater effect..**])!*


(*There might be a perfectly good, techincal, reason to not use "Raw", but from an artists perspective I can't see a difference)
(**I tried to measure colors/compare renders etc, and the only differences that is "measurable" is the luminance noise, but not the difference between "Raw" and "None")

grimm wrote:

jfcalcena wrote:Hello guys. Nothing works here. I already activated in Addon Octane Render and change it in the Renderer menu to Octane and nothing happens. I missing something? I followed exactly the steps informed in this thread and nothing works here. Follow prints. Thanks!

Looks like you haven't started up OctaneServer. Usually I start it up before I start Blender.

Jason

suvakas wrote:Looks like Emission is always ON for materials?
Suv

J.C wrote:

eisklotz wrote:I have a GeForce 970 and a 1070 but they are not available. Why?

This is Cycles settings. Octane has its own settings in Render Tab.

Dear Developers can you tell us why have you disabled GPU rendering for Cycles in your build?

showme wrote:

adrencg wrote:Can I get some help setting this up? I followed the directions but when I try to render I get a message saying "not connected. No renderserver at address …"

It seems counterintuitive to stop the server before running Blender as the directions say.

I just had to make sure the server was running BEFORE launching this special version of "Blender for Octane". Meaning, the OctaneServer was in the system tray (it doesn't do much other than that visually).
Then in Blender goto Add-ons and make sure OctaneRender Engine is enabled.

Then select Octane as your Render Engine in the Context: Render icon (the camera-icon) and start messing around with it. Do make sure you have an octane material and octane environment set up as it doesn't seem to interpret anything from Blender materials or environment setup.

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What's the best place to report bugs for this version? Here's a few I came across so far:

- On area lights created after firing Octane up, I had to switch to some different light-types and scale the light up before it became visible in the octane render (both the light rays and the light itself).
- Now after doing a test-render and cancelling it (F12 to the Image Editor) and then rotating the scene afterwards the preview is no longer updating until I switched to lookdev and renderer again. Nothing too disturbing though as far as previewing goes: ( you can see the scene was rotated again after cancelling the render)



There does seem to be something wrong with doing an actual render indeed, as the image is not cleaning up like the preview is and just stays at the noisy result making the noise shift around a bit over time but not resuting in a cleaner result.

edit: aha the next comment solved this issue indeed, so the current workaround is that the preview should be stopped before rendering in order to continue tweaking afterwards, thanks for the tip Daryl!

DrawFun wrote:

suvakas wrote:Looks like Emission is always ON for materials?
Suv

Hello, suvakas,

I've tried to reproduce but with no success. Could you please share me a sample? Thanks.

Cheers,
DrawFun