OctaneRender™ Standalone 1.36 RC1

[roeland]

Hi,

Hi, this is our first 1.50 release candidate. We won't add new features after this release, but please report any bugs you find.

There were some minor changes in the Lua API, but after the final 1.50 release the API should remain stable.

EDIT: This version has been superseded by version 1.37.

Changes since version 1.35

Alembic import

• Fixed some crashes when importing an unreadable Alembic file
• Fixed UI freeze while loading Alembic files

Rendering

• Fixed wrong refraction on specular materials with dispersion
• Fixed the white noise in the material preview kernel.
• Fixed banding when using falloff nodes.
• Fixed issue with badly rendered bump maps in some setups with lots of image textures
• Add tolerance setting to dirt shader so you can avoid black edges on roughly tesselated meshes
• The renderer updates correctly when you connect materials to a material map node
• Fixed glitch when switching to panoramic camera while having stereo rendering enabled.

Node graph

• When switching from a specular to diffuse material type, the transmission input is reset to 0
• Switching between RGB color and greyscale color keeps the brightness

Lua

• Replaced octane.nodegraph.getRootGraph with octane.project.getSceneGraph
• octane.node.SetPinValue accepts arguments of any dimension for float and int pins
• Added octane.filename.join function to join relative paths together
• Allow grouping and ungrouping of nodes
• When running a Lua script from the command line, you can pass an argument to the script
• Added access to preview render target and material ball mesh
• Scene import and export have been moved into the nodegraph module

Other

• Command line arguments affecting the camera always have effect, you don't need to specify all camera arguments anymore.
• On the time line, the time can be displayed as the frame number, and the shutter interval can be specified as a percentage of the interval between two frames.
• Switched to an online manual, which can be reached via "Help" -> "Open Online Manual".

known issues

This build doesn't work on the new Maxwell cards yet (the GTX 750 and GTX 750 Ti). In the device preferences they show up as having compute model 5.0. Support for these cards will be added soon. If have to buy a new card and need it for rendering now, you should look up the Compute Capability (but not the performance) here: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus. Only 2.x and 3.x are supported.


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Happy rendering,
Your OTOY NZ Team

[Tugpsx]

Nice, thanks for update

[Refracty]

Cool
Thank you!

[pixelrush]

So at last we come to the end of 1.xx and I can move on. 4 years is long enough waiting around here.
and FYI I stopped reporting stuff a while ago cos you don't do anything with it....

@Goldorak on 29 July 2013 re 1.5 features and in reply to > ...in other words the presentation somewhat overstated the actual situation...
> Not at all. There are even a few features that didn't get mentioned - stereo rendering for example.

I don't suppose anything is going to arrive for that is it? If it ever really was...

[gordonrobb]

So when you say no more features will be added, does that mean we won't see (for example) a better selection of procedurals?

[manalokos]

This version compiles the scene whenever you change a material from diffuse to glossy or vice versa... this is problematic for heavy scenes.

[merid888]

thank you, i'll test soon and i'llcomment
regards octanerender team !!

[mykola1985]

Tested it a little bit. No bugs for now! Alembic seems to work quite well!!!

just a question. What about overall rendering speed improvements? will we see them in the next releases?

[nagboy]

Is the Camera motion blur enabled here?

[kavorka]

Is the Camera motion blur enabled here?

I was using camera motion blur in the previous release.