OctaneRender™ Standalone 1.18

[roeland]

Hi all,

This release contains a few extra fixes for 1.20. If we didn't introduce any new issues, this will be the version we will release as 1.20 beginning of next week.

Changes since 1.17

• Inverted bump mapping behavior to make it more consistent with other renderers (lighter color means higher elevation). This means that when upgrading you need to check or uncheck the invert input on bump maps.
• Fixed black dot on specular materials.
• Loading of OBJ and MTL files which are not encoded as UTF-8, doesn't result in invalid node names and broken OCS files anymore.
• Added separate display mode (Interpolated Vertex Normals) to the deep_channel_kernel to display the vertex normals before any correction to eliminate black rims on objects.
• Fixed direction of horizontal scrolling on Windows.
• Fixed some small issues with the minimum and maximum values for nodes.

Download:

Windows
ZIP archives:
- 64-bit
- 32-bit

MacOS X
DMG image:
- 32-bit and 64-bit

Linux
ZIP archive:
- 64-bit


Happy rendering,
Your OTOY NZ Team

[smicha]

Thanks TEAM.
Interpolated Vertex Normals works like a charm.

1. I reported it earlier - front and back views are switched - front is back, back is front.
Do you confirm it? (tested on models imported from Sketchup and 3Ds max).

2. When I set int2resolution (Mesh Preview Resolution) to higher values than the viewport is, eg. 3000x2000 I see no scrollbars on the bottom and on the right hand side of the viewport.

[pixelrush]

So soon... still we are making steady progress
Ok well I reported the views icon needs a small triangle on it before to be consistant with the other drop downs.

[gordonrobb]

What? I haven't even installed 1.17

Can you tell me if installing this, will also change the bump behaviour with the LW Plugin, or will that need to change too?

[Elvissuperstar007]

why you need a layer (Interpolated Vertex Normals)
I do not understand .. why so many normals. how to use them?

[juanjgon]

What? I haven't even installed 1.17

Can you tell me if installing this, will also change the bump behaviour with the LW Plugin, or will that need to change too?

You need a new build of the plugin to see this change in bump behaviour.

-Juanjo

[face]

why you need a layer (Interpolated Vertex Normals)
I do not understand .. why so many normals. how to use them?

Only for error checking...

face

[mantra]

why you need a layer (Interpolated Vertex Normals)
I do not understand .. why so many normals. how to use them?

Only for error checking...

face

Useless...

[t_3]

Useless...

... for you?

[mantra]

Useless...

... for you?

for 99.9% of customers