OctaneRender™ for Blender 1.20.2 - 2.2 beta Win [OBSOLETE]

[JimStar]

What GPU do you have?

I currently unfortunately only have a GTX 260, but there is a GTX 660 on order which I should have by hopefully monday or tuesday .

Here is the reason. It will not work with 260, too old CUDA version...

[r4ytrace]

ok no worries - I shall wait till next week then

[dafassi]

Hi,

there are some issues using animated textures:

Thanks for report.
I have not given too much worktime to animated textures so far... Will do it in next versions...

No problem, there are other more importend things.

Just because i need this for a commercial-prject:
Am i able to use animated textures with the blender-Octane-AddON,
or should i use an other raytracer?

Thanks!

[dafassi]

Request: Blender-Material-Conversion.

Is it possible to convert blender-intern-materials to Octane-Materials?

IE there is an addon for generating cities. This addon generates A LOT of textures and assigns them to materials.
Mostly there are some materials with some textures on "one object".
By using BlenderOctane this material is useless and i have to make the texturing by my self ... in cities impossible

[matej]

@dafassi, a Blender (BI or Cycles) to Octane shader conversion doesn’t make much sense. Too much work for very dubious usefulness.

For your problem the best curse of action is to modify that add-on script so that it doesn't create "a lot" of textures & materials but only a few. Then you can convert the materials manually.

[dafassi]

Thanks matej,

i think you´re right! I will contact him. Because with cycles we have the same problem!

@ JimStar- there is an other thing: load the "Mosaic EricDesign" from the DataBase ´[Organic/Stone/...]. All you will render is the BumpMap of the material. Seems there is something wrong

-> Tested also the Post-FX settings: <-EDITED
a) it would be better to have the post settings inside the RENDER TAB, because originaly blenders post-button is to find there
b) is it possible to change post-process after rendering an image? i know, in standalone its possible . Or would this make a problem because we cant keyframe them than for an animation?

[JimStar]

For your problem the best curse of action is to modify that add-on script so that it doesn't create "a lot" of textures & materials but only a few. Then you can convert the materials manually.

The even better way - if you modify the script at all, you can just add the opportunity to choose which materials to create, standard Blender's, or Octane. In this case instead of lowering the complexity of materials to be able to convert them later, you will get the same well-looking complex Octane materials right after using this script.
I don't think that just changing the created node-type from one to another in this script will be some complicated task.

[JimStar]

Only 1 small request: could the default number of samples for Max/Preview be 100/200? (vs 16000/3000)

What do others think about it?

[JimStar]

JimStar ... great! Never seen that fast support/programmers! THANK YOU!

As im on a low speed internet connection there is an issue that let blender crash:

When downloading a material from DB and the internet connection is lost, blender crashes.
When the connection comes back nothing changes - when blender is crashed i have to restart.

I have no crashes here... How can I reproduce it?
I press the "Get material", and unplug the network cable - no problems, it just sets the empty material after timeout...

[vinz]

Hi Jim,

A little question, now the liveDB is supported is there a way to import my own macro material inside blender? is there a place where the live db is cached on hard drive where i can put my ocm ?

i would like to convert my octane project for blender, but my project materials are too much complex for rebuilding everything in blender

Thanks