OctaneRender™ Standalone 1.25

[gardeler]

Not sure if it is a bug, but object layer does not work with alembic files? But it does work with obj...

[gardeler]

Hello,
when i'm exporting a scene with alembic from Maya 2014, i'm missing material slots. Is there something i'm missing when exporting or importing ?
here is an image showing 3 materials in maya, and only one in octane

material.jpg

i guess this is not a version relatet thing, i didn't use standalone in a while.
Just wanted to see how ne features ar working.

I can't get materials to work with alembic, but you can access the cube shapes if you click on the small wrench symbol in the alembic node. Uncheck the "merge materials with the same name". That should bring up the inputs.

[stratified]

Lua API Browser crash
http://abushinov.com/files/OctaneRender ... Crash_.mp4

Hi,

We'll look into it. Thanks for the video, it makes understanding a lot easier!

cheers,
Thomas

[bepeg4d]

hi,
little issue with lua script and os x, if you launch a script with interface, the lua window stays always behind the octane window and it seems that nothing happen. it's necessary to click somewhere for revealing the lua window with an error sound or expose all the windows and choosing the lua one.
not a big deal but i think should be easy to fix

after launching a lua script

exposing all the windows

how should it works at launch

ciao beppe

[rik25]

Where can we find the new documentation, please ?

[stratified]

Where can we find the new documentation, please ?

We only include the updated documentation with the final release, these are just release candidates.

cheers,
Thomas

[stratified]

hi,
little issue with lua script and os x, if you launch a script with interface, the lua window stays always behind the octane window and it seems that nothing happen. it's necessary to click somewhere for revealing the lua window with an error sound or expose all the windows and choosing the lua one.
not a big deal but i think should be easy to fix

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ciao beppe

Oops, I thought we already fixed this, I guess not. We will look into it again.

cheers,
Thomas

[gah5118]

what exactly are the camera out and camera in nodes for? for that matter all of the in/out...

the problem i am having or the way i am trying to use them; and there may be another node for this that i dont know about; is much like a material macro. when you open it you have your nodes in it, but on the main scene tab you only see the one. i would like to do this with cameras... this way all render targets would connect to the one camera node, then to change the camera i would do that within the macro; just like if you wanted to change a material, just reconnect 1 inside the macro rather than in my case 3 connections every time i update a camera.

would it be possible to have an "adaptive macro"? in other words, its universal and adapts to whatever you use inside it..... so instead of needing a material macro this can replace it but it wouldnt be limited to materials. it would adapt its output/input type to whatever is being interfaced with it. so if you opened it and used a camera to the macro then it would adopt that input/output in the scene tab. likewise if it were any other node.

[gah5118]

nevermind, think i figured it out with node graph feature. at first it seemed useless but once i grouped the camera i looked inside and looks like it does what i am looking for.

[stratified]

what exactly are the camera out and camera in nodes for? for that matter all of the in/out...

the problem i am having or the way i am trying to use them; and there may be another node for this that i dont know about; is much like a material macro. when you open it you have your nodes in it, but on the main scene tab you only see the one. i would like to do this with cameras... this way all render targets would connect to the one camera node, then to change the camera i would do that within the macro; just like if you wanted to change a material, just reconnect 1 inside the macro rather than in my case 3 connections every time i update a camera.

would it be possible to have an "adaptive macro"? in other words, its universal and adapts to whatever you use inside it..... so instead of needing a material macro this can replace it but it wouldnt be limited to materials. it would adapt its output/input type to whatever is being interfaced with it. so if you opened it and used a camera to the macro then it would adopt that input/output in the scene tab. likewise if it were any other node.

Hi there,

The magic in/out nodes are called linker nodes. The in nodes take input from outside a nodegraph (nodegroup) and links it into the node graph. The out nodes take something from within the graph to the outside. They just "link" through connections from inside to outside and vica-versa.

You would need to create a graph and create 3 camera outputs inside it and connect them to the cameras:

Camera Graph inside

Camera Graph Outside

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The new graphs are a generalized version of the old macros. You can feed in and feed out any node type you want. You can create new graphs by hand or you can select a group of nodes and do right click and select group.

I hope this makes things clear.

cheers,
Thomas