OctaneRender™ Standalone 1.21

[FrankPooleFloating]

I can only speak for myself. I am on cloud 9 with visibility. I will now be able to do exactly what I have pining/bitching for an entire year. If I have to set up more nodes/pins/whatever, I will do it with a huge smile on my mug every time. We are now entering the age of Octane in the compositing workflow... I am almost wetting myself that this day has finally come.

Thank you so much guys!

[abstrax]

dumb question: where is the menu to import alembic files?

Either drag&drop the file into Octane or create a Geometry -> Scene node graph.

[xxdanbrowne]

dumb question: where is the menu to import alembic files?

Either drag&drop the file into Octane or create a Geometry -> Scene node graph.

Sweet. Thanks.

So here's a question. Obviously I can keyframe vertex changes etc.
But.....for animation e.g. of cloth I have a bunch of separate .obj files per frame.
How would I get this into alembic? Make blendshapes using the .obj files and keyframe the blendshapes?
Does alembic handle blendshapes?

[Rikk The Gaijin]

We can populate the pins of the object layer map node with some default object layer nodes if that would help you.

I'm not sure to understand what you mean.
My propose was something very simple, like this:


If you CTRL+click the eye, only that object will be visible, everything else will be hidden.
And then have the Camera/Shadow visibility options in the OBJ properties.
Isn't that easier?

[Tugpsx]

Thanks

[grimm]

I have been trying to load the alembic files that have been posted. They both come in without materials and on Ray Tracy's the camera isn't positioned correctly, also the scale is way off. I get the scale too big ring artifacts when I try to position the camera with-in the scene.

In fact no nodes except the scene node get created. Otherwise I can scrub the animation and it looks good.

[RayTracey]

I have been trying to load the alembic files that have been posted. They both come in without materials and on Ray Tracy's the camera isn't positioned correctly, also the scale is way off. I get the scale too big ring artifacts when I try to position the camera with-in the scene.

alembic_bug.png

In fact no nodes except the scene node get created. Otherwise I can scrub the animation and it looks good.

You need to open the octaneshatter121.ocs file via the File->Open menu (you'll have the raw scene when you try to load the Alembic file directly). I will create a better scene for the 1.22 release.

P.S. the scene in question can be found here

[grimm]

Ah, Thanks Ray, that worked perfectly.

[xxdanbrowne]

So I've been playing with this for fifteen minutes and I think I'm missing something fundamental.

If I export the alembic file by selecting the mesh as in Pipeline Cache > Alembic Cache > Export Selection to Alembic

then...

I import the Alembic Scene to octane by creating a scene node.

The geometry loads up so far so good but scrubbing through there's no animation of the vertices.
(but I *do* see transform animation of the entire mesh - just no vertex animation????)

What am I missing?

[RayTracey]

So I've been playing with this for fifteen minutes and I think I'm missing something fundamental.

If I export the alembic file by selecting the mesh as in Pipeline Cache > Alembic Cache > Export Selection to Alembic

then...

I import the Alembic Scene to octane by creating a scene node.

The geometry loads up so far so good but scrubbing through there's no animation of the vertices.

What am I missing?

The Alembic import function doesn't support animated vertices yet (only animated transforms + camera paths for now), but it's planned for the final 1.5 release.