OctaneRender 2021 for AutoCAD [TEST and STABLE] Tweet

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This is the recommended thread for downloading, and posting any questions, suggestions or support queries for OctaneRender for AutoCAD TEST and STABLE releases.

SOLUTIONS TO COMMON ISSUES

1) Make sure your NVIDIA drivers are up to date. If in doubt, run Octane Standalone, then add and click on a Rendertarget to make sure it starts rendering.

2) If the Octane Camera direction does not match up with the AutoCAD camera, Rightclick the XYZ axis in the AutoCAD viewport and select "World".

3) Cuda error 999 - failed to load shader code: Multiple definition of 'cpSptStatistics' in 'cuda_teturemode' means that your plugin version is too old for the Nvidia drivers that are installed, so update to the latest version of the plugin

AutoCAD Version
The plugin requires AutoCAD 2021 or 2022, Windows 64bit.

To use this version, you need a GPU of compute model 3.0 or higher. Support for Fermi GPUs (like GTX 4xx and 5xx) has been dropped. Also make sure you use a driver of version 419.17 or higher.

Network Rendering
For Network Rendering, you must use the Octane slave release from the Octane Standalone installer which matches the exact Octane version of the plugin you are using. This version matches OctaneRender Standalone 4.00.

Support Issues
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
- AutoCAD version and build number
- OctaneRender for AutoCAD version (ie. 1.20.1.10)

For more information...
- Specific Octane 2.0 features in this plugin http://render.otoy.com/manuals/AutoCAD/?page_id=661
- Read the on-line manual
- Read the FAQ
- Post your question on this forum thread
- To learn more about the new features and improvements of OctaneRender 4, please check out our blog post.

Download Links

Current STABLE build (Octane 2020.1)

For users with an Enterprise subscription license

- AutoCAD 2021-2022 - OctaneRender for AutoCAD 2021.1.0.31


For users with a Studio subscription license

- AutoCAD 2021-2022 - OctaneRender for AutoCAD 2021.1.0.31


Demo version

- AutoCAD 2021-2022 - OctaneRender for AutoCAD 2021.1.0.31

Release Notes

2021.1.0.31 (02-Dec-2021)
- Compiled with Octane 2021.1
- The following features from https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=77764 are now supported by the plugin:
... Improved RTX support
... Interpolated surface tangents
... Clipping material
... Energy preserving GGX BRDF
... Improved hair material
... Improved AI light
... New texture nodes
... New projection nodes
- The following features from https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=77764 are NOT supported by the plugin (however most are supported if you import an ORBX proxies with the feature):
... SDF from mesh
... Improved Scatter on surface
... Volume rendering
... Improved color processing
... Refactored render AOVs
... Custom AOVs
... Global texture AOVs
... New output AOVs

Paul

[guttakalle]

thax for your hard work, is there any way to get Octane UI to look as the rest of dark Autocad 2022 theme?

//hallehutta

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Hi

I will have a look when I do the next release. Me guess is that it won't be easy, but I will check it out.

Paul

[guttakalle]

Well - could you at least make the background color be more consistent through out the interface. On the attached screendump in my previous post the Windows 10 UI settings are set to use High Contrast theme with darker grey shades for background items and distinct orange color for forground items and so the tab area and the individual boxes look okay as they are using the defined system colors.

However the main box background somehow is just ignoring system colors having white color. Why it is so?

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Well - could you at least make the background color be more consistent through out the interface. On the attached screendump in my previous post the Windows 10 UI settings are set to use High Contrast theme with darker grey shades for background items and distinct orange color for forground items and so the tab area and the individual boxes look okay as they are using the defined system colors.

However the main box background somehow is just ignoring system colors having white color. Why it is so?

I have made some changes to the dialog colors, so they should pickup the Window High Contrast color better. It will be in the next release (which will be Octane 2021.1.2).

Thanks

Paul

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I have released the 2022.1 version of the plugin - which is at https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=80926.

Thanks

Paul