OctaneRender® for ArchiCAD beta - build 1.13b [OBSOLETE]

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This is the recommended thread for downloading, and posting any questions, suggestions or support queries for OctaneRender for ArchiCAD, build 1.13b (TEST RELEASE). This version is compiled against Octane 1.13, so see the requirements for that build regarding compatibility with your video card.

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
- ArchiCAD version (ArchiCAD -> Help -> License Information -> Version and Build Number
- OctaneRender for ArchiCAD version (ie. 1.02a)
- In the unlikely event of a crash, pls provide the dump report from the C:\Users\[username]\Graphisoft\BugReporting-[version] folder (on Win 7). Either post or email (to "paul at physicalc-consulting.com") the "ArchiCAD-XXXXXX-FATAL.RPT" file from this folder.

Change Log from release 1.13a
- Fixed issue where materials were sometimes not being correctly matched during photorendering

For more information...
- Read the manual
- Read the FAQ
- Watch the Introductory Tutorial Video
- Check the Facebook page
- Post your question on this forum thread

Troubleshooting
- GUI issues (lock-up/crash) on large scenes (ie. 4million polys) - potentially due to the Windows Vista/7 "Timeout Detection and Recovery" http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... 87368.aspx. Settings can be changed using Regedit. The recommended setting for Octane are registry setting HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers, TdrLevel = 3, TdrDelay =10 (if these settings are not already there, rightclick the right panel -> New -> DWORD). You will need to reboot after changing these settings.

Limitations
- materials selection (to auto-populate the "Select from Selection" combo box on the Materials tab of the plug, does not work unless you are viewing a 3d perspective window.
- Changing an element's material will not automatically select the new material in the Materials tab of the plugin. You will need to select another element, and then re-select the original element to get the "Select from Selection" combo box to populate the new material
- To use the material picker (Materials Tab -> "Select from Selection") on Curtain Wall objects, put the Curtain Wall in edit mode
- The ArchiCAD Perspective camera roll angle is not transposed to the Octane thinlens "up" pin. If you need to rotate the render, manually adjust the "up" vector.
- Image map rotation is not current supported by OctaneRender, so any rotation of texturemaps in ArchiCAD materials is ignored in the texture conversion to Octane.
- GDL materials of the same name, for different objects, are merged to be one Octane material
- On ArchiCAD 14, selecting from the "Select from Selection" popup is disabled (ie. you cannot choose from the materials of the currently selected scene element). Instead, you will need to select materials in the plugin Materials tab via the "Select from Materials" popup.
- On ArchiCAD 14, when doing a photorender, sun study or flythrough, the render viewport may not display the render as it progresses. This is a GUI display issue, and the render is working as per normal

Download Links
Download the plugin from the following links:
- OctaneRender for ArchiCAD 14 1.13b beta (32 & 64 bit)
- OctaneRender for ArchiCAD 15 1.13b beta (32 & 64 bit)
- OctaneRender for ArchiCAD 16 1.13b beta (32 & 64 bit)

Paul

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Hi Paul,
While rendering with 3GPU I activated the fourth GPU and doping that I got a cuda eroor and the OR Viewport closed it self?\
And I got the same error restart the window.. it seems to be a memory issue?
Uncheck the GPU I was activating and open OR Viewport it is fine again.
Seems something with just the one GPU, or memory form one GPU needing for system maybe?
Do you have any idea?
greetings, Jeroen

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Hi Jeroen

If you get the Cuda error from the Octane Viewport (not a photorender), the Cuda Log details should be in the ArchiCAD "Report" - that should give a more specific reason for the problem you are experiencing.

The next version of the plugin will include a "Cuda Log" button on the "Devices" tab which will also give a full report on the Cuda error.

At a guess, I'd say that one card has a smaller VRAM capacity for some reason, so you are running out of memory on that card. Total Octane VRAM capacity is the amount of memory your "smallest" card has - so including that card for rendering is reducing the total memory capacity for the render.

Paul

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I have uploaded a highly experimental release - which features "Proxys". Click on an "Object" element, then in the plugin there is a new button on the Material Tab which if you have selected a single Object, will allow you to set that object to render an external OBJ file. You can adjust the scale and rotation of the OBJ too, and edit all the materials. The proxy materials are a shared pool separate from the ArchiCAD materials. So a proxy OBJ chair will a material "wood" will share the same Octane wood material as all other proxies in the scene. If you duplicate a proxied object, you will need to assign the OBJ file to the duplicate (ie. the proxy info is not duplicated).

It is highly likely there you may find issues with this release, so pls do not use it on production work. It saves all the proxy info and materials to the pln file, so do NOT save to a file that you need! In summary - use at your own risk

OctaneRender for ArchiCAD 16 1.13c beta (32 & 64 bit)

Paul

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I have uploaded a highly experimental release - which features "Proxys". Click on an "Object" element, then in the plugin there is a new button on the Material Tab which if you have selected a single Object, will allow you to set that object to render an external OBJ file. You can adjust the scale and rotation of the OBJ too, and edit all the materials. The proxy materials are a shared pool separate from the ArchiCAD materials. So a proxy OBJ chair will a material "wood" will share the same Octane wood material as all other proxies in the scene. If you duplicate a proxied object, you will need to assign the OBJ file to the duplicate (ie. the proxy info is not duplicated).

It is highly likely there you may find issues with this release, so pls do not use it on production work. It saves all the proxy info and materials to the pln file, so do NOT save to a file that you need! In summary - use at your own risk

OctaneRender for ArchiCAD 16 1.13c beta (32 & 64 bit)

Paul

This is fantastic
As you can see I managed easily to link different OBJ's into the PLN,
I tried to scale and rotate one and that works perfectly
All links in this file dropped vertically about 7mtrs
I'll test in another scene to see if this will happen the same way.
Greetz, Jeroen

UPDATE: with second scene
In the second scene the vertical placement of proxy is OK.
Notice the Pinguin is out of place, but I think the OBJ is incorrect to begin with

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Hi Paul,
Scaling a proxy starts at 1% and next step is 2%.
Some OBJ's are way out of scale and sometimes you might to want to scale objects totally 'weird'-small like inserting a Maquette-scaled city-object.
In my example I tried to scale the human to 1.7mtr (like column height), but the original is totally out of scale,
so I wanted to scale like 1,17 %.
Maybe you planned to this (because this is still in experimental stage), but 1,00000 like other settings might be handy. (example is in red square)
greetings, Jeroen

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Thanks Jeroen - I will look into the above issues. Since this thread is about 1.13b, I've starting another thread for feedback on the 1.13c proxy system at http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=32365.

Paul

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New test version posted - http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=32899.