A Special Please

Tue Mar 26, 2013 11:51 pm

Could Otoy PLEASE seriously consider putting a "Lock Settings" feature in Octane? This has been one of those "danger" areas where all it takes is an accidental move of the mousewheel over the Node Inspector and you're screwed. Especially if the render has been going a long time. All that work is just gone. It just happened to me again, and I lost 10 hours of rendering.

It's a simple addition...Wouldn't take but an afternoon to code and debug it and it's REALLY important.

Wed Mar 27, 2013 12:02 am

This feature is built into the Poser, ArchiCAD and Revit plugins.

Wed Mar 27, 2013 12:26 am

+1 ! This kind of accident already occured to me.

t_3 · Wed Mar 27, 2013 12:51 am

face_off wrote:This feature is built into the Poser, ArchiCAD and Revit plugins.

and daz studio too, to note one more

Wed Mar 27, 2013 12:53 am

for now, I always turn off the option to render the material when you click on it. These options are in the top left of the node inspector.

Wed Mar 27, 2013 3:44 am

This feature is built into the Poser, ArchiCAD and Revit plugins.

I use Standalone, so I don't have that feature.

Beppe OctaneRender™ Italia Blue Sky · Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:13 am

hi treddie,
if i remember well, you have also c4d in your working pipeline. if yes, maybe you might take in count the new c4d integrated plugin

If you launch a render in the picture viewer, any changes can't have any effect to the render already started, and you also have the undo option

ciao beppe

Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:30 am

Disable param slider movement with the mouse wheel, already...

It's very bad GUI design for the mouse wheel to scroll content and at the same time move sliders. People are not using this "feature" anyway, exactly because of the reasons OP pointed out.

Wed Mar 27, 2013 6:04 pm

+1

maybe like this: when over ~200? samples are rendered, there is a confirmation-dialogue before re-rendering starts because of (accidential) parameter-change.

br

Thu Mar 28, 2013 6:09 pm

if i remember well, you have also c4d in your working pipeline. if yes, maybe you might take in count the new c4d integrated plugin

I should I guess. I'm just so used to using the standalone version. Autism, maybe!

maybe like this: when over ~200? samples are rendered, there is a confirmation-dialogue before re-rendering starts because of (accidential) parameter-chan

ANYTHING to stop an auto-rerender in its tracks would be nice.

Disable param slider movement with the mouse wheel, already...

Too many programs have it these days and its more of a gimmick than anything else. A lot of programs try to put so many "conveniences" in a program those conveniences begin to overlap and produce inconvenient results.