This is the plugin build based on OctaneRender® 2024.1 Alpha 2 SDK. Any feedback will be much appreciated. Enjoy it!
This is the Standalone matching OctaneRender® 2024.1 Alpha 2.
Some important notes about these builds:
The minimum NVIDIA driver version that is required by this version is 522. You can launch Octane with an older driver version, but it will fail to render and it will produce an error message in the log.
The minimum supported macOS version is 14. If you depend on using an older version, please let us know.
Open Image Denoise is supported on CUDA compute model 7 and later, we fallback to the CPU version on machine with older models. On macOS, only the CPU version is supported.
As with all experimental builds, we advise to not use this release for production purposes. We are trying to, but we can't guarantee that scenes saved with this version will be compatible in future releases. Changes are being made daily.
IN ANY CRASH CASE PLEASE DO THESE!!!
If you see CUDA errors follow 1,2,3,4.
1- Use NVIDIA STUDIO drivers, not Game Ready versions. If you have stability issues try different drivers, some of them could cause instability issues. Make a clean install while doing this to be sure previous files completely removed.
2- Check GPU frequency. Overclocking would cause instability issues
3- Check PSU. Insufficient power output would cause instability issues
4- Check the free amount of GPU's VRAM and system's RAM while working. Low VRAM will/may cause CUDA errors. Be aware of some generator objects will have different triangle count in Picture Viewer than Live Viewer. It’s like “editor/render” parameter. Just try to use the same value. Also try to optimize your scene for polygon count, even use smaller images. Try to use Octane texture nodes rather than using C4D texture/shaders.
Alternatively, use V4 and Out-of-core(OOC) function. Increase RAM for OOC and It should not exceed physical RAM amount. Check TDR value and increase if it's necessary.
5- If you see C4D crashes without CUDA errors, then send us bugreport.zip, screen-shots and video capture to show process and crash moment. Also please send us a sample scene in a format of C4D or ORBX to let us investigate and test it. Alternatively, try to delete/hide some objects/materials until crash gone away. If you find what's causing crashes, send us a sample scene to let us for investigating and bring a fix or solution.
Thanks for helping the development by your feedbacks! It’s impossible to quickly catch every case without user feedbacks! It’s the same procedure as other companies do like Maxon/etc...
2024.1_Alpha_2-[R3] plugin revisions
- New: Added Octane_PNG format for saving render AOVs
- New: Instance_Color support on spline_to_hair with normal/render_instances mode with Cloner objects
- New: Spline (render instance mode) support with Cloner objects
- Fix: Post parameters in Camera tag
- Fix: Loosing the filename in Volume objects
- Fix: C4D 2024: Crash on scatter when we edit a distribution surface
- Fix: Missing take support for Color GUI
2024.1_Alpha_2-[R2] plugin revisions
- Some update improvements, fixes
- A fix for OCIO rendering with Teamrender
- Some fixes on LV
2024.1_Alpha_2 revisions
- Added new Light mixer output AOV layer node. This has the same functionality as the old Light mixer output AOV node, which is now hidden.
- Made the Legacy output AOV layer node visible to allow output AOVs of older scenes to be used as layers in the new output AOV node.
- Added "Subtract" and "Divide" blend modes to the Legacy output AOV layer node.
- Added pin "Affect occlusion only", which controls whether only the alpha channel is modified, or whether the (premultiplied) RGB channels are also modified, to the following output AOV layer nodes:
Adjust opacity
Mask with layer group
Mask with Cryptomatte - Added the following new output AOV layer nodes, which can be used to store an image during compositing and recall it in a higher layer and make it easier to build reusable effects, and can improve performance by preventing repeated work:
Save checkpoint
Load checkpoint
Discard checkpoint - Added new Sharpen output AOV layer node.
- The "Camera imager" node type is now called "Imager", because it's not related to cameras.
- The Imager node's "Saturate to white" pin is now called "Clip to white".
- Added option to switch between shading and smooth normals in the falloff texture node. This also fixes the problem that the mode "Normal vs. eye ray" did not take bump mapping into account.
- Refactored how we allocate memory for the denoiser buffers: Buffers required by the denoiser will be allocated before we upload the scene data to make sure that we have the required memory available to run the denoiser when needed. This should solve cases where the denoiser failed due to an insufficient amount of available memory.
- OSL: Added ray type "direct" to the OSL function raytype() to match direct light rays.
WINDOWS STUDIO+ 2024.1_Alpha_2-[R3] (R15-R2024)
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... R3_win.rar
WINDOWS STUDIO+ DEMO 2024.1_Alpha_2-[R3] (R15-R2024)
https://render.otoy.com/plugindownloads ... R3_win.rar
Mac OSX Prime 2024.1_Alpha_2-[R3] (R25-R26/R2023/R2024)
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... R3_OSX.zip
Please note the macOS build below will only work correctly on macOS 13.3 and newer, and only on Apple Silicon.
Requirements:
-You'll need to update your Cinema 4D to latest versions(R16.050, R17.053, R18.057, R19.053, R20.057, R21.115, S22.118, R23.110, R24.111, R25.117, R26.107, R2023.2, R2024.1.0). Otherwise, the plugin will not work and not appear in menus.
-Internet connection for activation, be sure that C4D and Octane will not be blocked by the firewall and any antivirus software.
-Nvidia drivers at least Nvidia Studio Drivers(minimum 456.38) and be careful with latest Game Ready drivers which can cause cuda errors. Stay with stable one for you.
ONLINE HELP MANUAL
Use embedded help buttons from Octane nodes and windows
or from link: https://docs.otoy.com/cinema4d/OctaneRe ... ema4D.html
Installation
First, remove all octane related stuff from plugins and the main folder of Cinema4D.
Extract all files to Cinema4D\plugins\c4dOctane directory.
Also, download manual.zip and extract to c4dOctane directory if it's not available in place.
There are a few files for each one is for different Cinema4D version. Remove all except the file is for your version.
Ex. if you have Cinema4D R2023, keep only "c4dOctane-R2023.xdl64" and delete c4dOctane-R26.xdl64, c4dOctane-R25.xdl64, c4dOctane-R24.xdl64, c4dOctane-R23.xdl64, etc..
