OctaneRender® for 3ds max® v1.0 beta 3.03[Test]

[Karba]

Otoy® is proud to announce the availability of a new version of OctaneRender® for 3ds max®: Version 1.0 beta 3.03.
The world's fastest and most feature-rich unbiased render engine that integrates completely into Autodesk® 3ds max®.


3ds max® Version Requirements

This release will only work with 3ds max® Versions 2010, 2011, 2012 & 2013/ 32bit & 64x / Base & Design on MS Windows operating systems.

Notes regarding features/functionality

OctaneRender® for 3ds max® implements all functionality of OctaneRender® standalone inside 3ds max®.
Any feature that the Standalone edition supports is supported by the 3ds max® plugin.


COMPATIBILITY AND OCTANERENDER STANDALONE REQUIREMENT

To run OctaneRender® for 3ds max®, you need to also have an activated OctaneRender® Standalone copy activated on the machine you wish to install the plugin onto.
You cannot purchase and use only the 3ds max plugin and use it without also owning an activated copy of OctaneRender® Standalone on your machine.


HOW TO PURCHASE LICENSES

Go to our online shop here: http://www.refractivesoftware.com/shop/

If you do not own an OctaneRender® Standalone Edition License yet:
You can purchase both the OctaneRender® Standalone Edition and the OctaneRender® for 3ds max® Edition as a reduced price bundle, purchase the bundle priced at 179€

If you already own one or more OctaneRender® Standalone Edition licenses you want to pair the plugin with:
Purchase an "OctaneRender® for 3ds max® v1.0 Beta License" priced at 99€

You can also purchase a 3, 5 or 10 pack of OctaneRender® for 3ds max® licenses,
just like OctaneRender Standalone Edition packs.


INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

At this moment there isn't automatic installation. You have to copy files to 3ds max manually.
Please read the installation text file included in the download ZIP file archive.


OCTANELIVE®

Just like OctaneRender® Standalone, The 3ds max® plugin product also needs an additional octanelive license and be activated on a machine.
This has to be done in the plugin interface panel in 3ds max, and is covered in the included PDF manual.
It can only be done after an OctaneRender® Standalone license is already activated on the machine in question.



NEW FEATURES SINCE LAST RELEASE:

• Near camera clipping.
• IES light gamma control
• New target focus control option.

BUG FIXES SINCE LAST RELEASE:

• Octane camera shaking movement.
• Wrong PMC lighting for first 40samples.

This version requires video driver 301.42 or higher.

DOWNLOAD

We have 4 separate archives available for download, for Autodesk® 3ds max® 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Each archive contains the manual and installation text file, and both 32bit and x64 versions of the plugin,
so you only need to dowload one archive for your 3ds max® version from the following download links:

3ds max® 2010: http://www.refractivesoftware.com/plugi ... a_3.03.zip (50MB ZIP File)
3ds max® 2011: http://www.refractivesoftware.com/plugi ... a_3.03.zip (50MB ZIP File)
3ds max® 2012: http://www.refractivesoftware.com/plugi ... a_3.03.zip (50MB ZIP File)
3ds max® 2013: http://www.refractivesoftware.com/plugi ... a_3.03.zip (50MB ZIP File)


Yours,
The OctaneRender® Team.

[j7th]

Near camera clipping. Cool! Thanks!

[Vanya]

Wrong PMC lighting for first 40 samples fixed, nice. thanks

[3rdeye]

thx alot karba !!

[Aaaaahole]

Thanks Karba & Co

[bicket]

Thans Karba,
Let's give a try

[gabrielefx]

Here a comparison between 301 and 303
I think it's ok at the moment.

Speed is slight slower, for example 1.670Mpx/s for the 3.01 and 1.620Mpx/s for the 3.03

Regarding the light core yesterday I was asking to myself why the colored light tends to white if the power is high.
On blue lights now the light core is magenta.
But how to create a totally blue projection? I mean, how to simulate a totally blue light with gels without color shift?

The ies light suffer of an old issue that I reported 5 months ago, you see projected the shadow of the emitter. In fact I never use ies emitters but circles, but now I have to use them.

The grain is slight more compact, probably you changed the sampling method, or increasing the reflection we have less bounces then less noise.

Thank you for your hard work.

edit: camera clipping is the best Octane's feature.

[suvakas]

Octane cam is not shaking anymore. So that is fixed. Thank you.

But cameras still not working properly!
Now camera target distance is not updating itself when rendering out animations. (when using target as a focal point).
It works in Octane view, but with standard "Render" button it doesn't. Seems like it reads the target distance at the frame "Render" was pressed, but doesn't update it for next frames? When camera moves away from the target everything gets blurry. That happens with both - Octane camera and standard cameras.
Could you try to fix it asap? Could be an easy fix cause it's working Ok in Octane view.

Suv

[paoloverona]

do you sleep at night Karba or do you work 24/24 on max's plugin functionality?.......i started trying the 3.02 release just two days ago!

I'm so curious to test the camera clipping and the new camera target focus...thanks Karba!

[abstrax]

Here a comparison between 301 and 303
I think it's ok at the moment.

Speed is slight slower, for example 1.670Mpx/s for the 3.01 and 1.620Mpx/s for the 3.03

Regarding the light core yesterday I was asking to myself why the colored light tends to white if the power is high.
On blue lights now the light core is magenta.
But how to create a totally blue projection? I mean, how to simulate a totally blue light with gels without color shift?

The ies light suffer of an old issue that I reported 5 months ago, you see projected the shadow of the emitter. In fact I never use ies emitters but circles, but now I have to use them.

The grain is slight more compact, probably you changed the sampling method, or increasing the reflection we have less bounces then less noise.

Thank you for your hard work.

edit: camera clipping is the best Octane's feature.

Hi Gabriel,

regarding the light core colours: Could you try using the saturate to white slider on the imager settings? Another option would be to desaturate the colour of the light gels.

Cheers,
Marcus