OctaneRender™ Standalone 1.27

[abstrax]

QUESTIONS regarding performance of Real Time Animation Scrubbing.

I'm testing Alembic import in preview 1.27 - very excited about this feature.

However, animation scrubbing for me is frustratingly slow - it takes several seconds for each new frame to update on models of 16,00 polygons / 33,000 tries or more. Is this normal for my system or do I need substantially grater specs?
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The specs of your system seem to be fine, but the mesh compilation speed is scene dependent and maybe the multi-threading doesn't work good enough on Mac OS (we hardly ever test on Mac OS).

-> Could you send us the scene so we can have a look at it?

Thanks,
Marcus

[pixelrush]

Small question:
When I open/load a packed scene can I access textures inside it?
For instance say I want to reuse a bump map on another material.
Currently this might be packed.orbx::bump.jpg.
If I go to a Diffuse mat and then down to Bump I don't seem to have a way to select it again.
Obviously I can just select Greyscale image as usual and I can load an 'external' one.
How about 'Packed Texture' in the list? Perhaps that is not possible and I have to unpack packed?

[vladislav]

All files in first post. Download only 7,73 kb zip archive and that all
Sorry for my english.

[pixelrush]

I just tried downloading Win, Mac and Linux, seems ok to me.

[Elvissuperstar007]

BUG 1.27 https://vimeo.com/84792726

[pegot]

The link didn't work - please check.

[FrankPooleFloating]

If a link that starts with https does not work for you, just kill the s... or paste in vimeo.com/84792726 etc. The s is for secure. And I think IE in particular has issues with https://, if memory serves.

Elvis is a trip though. Understandably, a man of few words. I always smile when I see his bug posts.

[stratified]

Small question:
When I open/load a packed scene can I access textures inside it?
For instance say I want to reuse a bump map on another material.
Currently this might be packed.orbx::bump.jpg.
If I go to a Diffuse mat and then down to Bump I don't seem to have a way to select it again.
Obviously I can just select Greyscale image as usual and I can load an 'external' one.
How about 'Packed Texture' in the list? Perhaps that is not possible and I have to unpack packed?

The recommended workflow is to unpack a project before modifying it. Ideally you pack up a project when it's done or when you need to transfer it. Of course you can modify it but then you have to save it as a package again.

cheers,
Thomas

[pixelrush]

I am a little confused by this.
When I pack something it becomes an .orbx file.
If I open an .orbx file it is not unpacked in the process.
I need to unpack an. orbx file to use it entirely but a .orbx still loads anyway and I can partly use it.
If I try to 'import' an .orbx it fails because it is for nodes....unless the .orbx is nodes.
Perhaps you should distinguish between them.
How do I know what I have if I get it from elsewhere? or I forgot which it is?
Leads to artists stuffing around trying to do things that appear broken.
.orbx, .porbx and .norbx perhaps??? Peter Jackson comes to Octane
Or how about name.orbx, name-p.orbx, name-n.orbx as a convention?
If you have an .orbx it ought to be obvious what you have and where/how it can be utilised IMO.
Saying how to handle them in the documentation or what a recommended workflow is is not a good user solution.

[stratified]

You're right, in the next release you can import a .orbx file into your project. A bit more intuitive.

If you load a .orbx file, it's still a .orbx file. We don't want to just unpack it somewhere so it's still a .orbx.

cheers,
Thomas