Hi everyone,
We are very pleased to announce the availability of the OctaneRender® for Poser plugin : Version 1.0 beta, the world's
fastest and most feature-rich unbiased render engine that integrates completely into Smith Micro Software's Poser.
OctaneRender is currently recognized by many industry professionals and 3d graphic visualization artists as the most advanced
and fastest GPU based physically based render engine with an advanced and flexible node-based workflow and user-interface.
However, due to current exporter scripts communicating with the OctaneRender application via file export, many artists lacked
closely integrated options and fast IO, limiting functionality and workflow features required for fast and efficient geometry transfer
and animation rendering,
Now, with our new plugin products, you can have the most advanced, fastest physically based render engine on the market tightly
integrated into your 3d modeling and animation software, for a fast workflow and rendering pipeline suitable for interactive editing
and fast final animation rendering output by using Poser's environment for scene setup, fine-tuning and animating all parameters for
objects, materials, lights, media, etc... all from inside Poser.
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POSER VERSION REQUIREMENTS
This release requires Poser 9 or Poser Pro 2012, 32 and 64bit, on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8. You must have Poser Service
Release 3.1 installed. Poser 8/2010 and earlier are not supported.
FEATURES/FUNCTIONALITY
Please refer to the blog post at http://poserphysics.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/octanerender-for-poser-features.html to
see the plugin features and screenshots.
Version 1.1 of the plugin will be released shortly (as a beta), and will contain Octane's instancing functionality. Version 1.0 beta
license owners will get the upgrade to 1.1 beta of the plugin at no cost.
COMPATIBILITY AND OCTANERENDER STANDALONE REQUIREMENT
To run OctaneRender® for Poser, you need to have an activated OctaneRender® Standalone copy on the machine you wish to
install the plugin onto. You cannot purchase only the Poser plugin and use it without also owning an activated copy of OctaneRender®
Standalone on your machine.
DEMO VERSION AVAILABLE
Download the demo here: http://render.otoy.com/downloads.php
More info about the demo can be found here: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=25983
HOW TO PURCHASE LICENSES
Go to our online shop here: http://render.otoy.com/shop/
A license for the plugin product alone will cost 99 € while in the initial open beta phase, and 199 € when the final versions of the plugin
and both OctaneRender™ are released.
The plugin will require the user to have a valid OctaneRender™ Standalone version installed and activated. If you don't have an OctaneRender
license yet, you can buy purchase both the plugin and the engine/standalone licenses as one bundle during the beta phase for 179 euros.
Update: with the beta phase of the standalone version having ended, the price of the bundle has increased to 279 euros.
You can also purchase a 3, 5 or 10 pack of OctaneRender® for Poser licenses, just like OctaneRender Standalone Edition packs.
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
Please follow the installation instructions in the manual (included in the ZIP file). Remember to copy the octane.dat file into the
folder that contains PoserPro.exe/Poser.exe (as per installation instructions).
If you get a message when running the plugin from the Render menu "Could not load Octane libraries", this is either due to not
installing the plugin correctly (refer to the manual), or your Nvidia drivers are out of date.
OCTANELIVE®
Just like OctaneRender Standalone, The Poser plugin product also needs an OctaneLive license and be activated on a machine.
This has to be done in the plugin interface, and is covered in the manual. It can only be done after an OctaneRender Standalone
license is already activated on the machine in question.
NVIDIA DRIVER REQUIREMENTS
This version requires video driver 301.42 or higher.
LIMITATIONS
Loading a Poser scene by double-clicking a pz3 file in the Windows file explorer will not load the previously saved Octane scene
data in that file. This is due to a Poser bug which has been reported to Smith Micro. Instead, use the Poser menu File -> Open
to open any pz3 files which contain Octane scene data.
ISSUE RESOLUTION
If you have any issues, please report them here, and include 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
- Poser version (Poser -> Help -> About Poser) - list the build
number (eg. 9.0.3.23027)
Yours,
The OctaneRender Team.