Beta 2.2 RC1: SoftImage XSI plugin testing thread

[Amplitude]

Hi all,

I will monitor this as well...
I played with a little animation today, rendered 125 frames several times and after having seen your post I've checked my memory consumption and I had a 16Gb pagefile and 4gb of ram used (not flushed after having quit XSI and Octane). Strange.
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/12057375[/vimeo]

[face]

Hi all,

I will monitor this as well...
I played with a little animation today http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... 2&start=82, rendered 125 frames several times and after having seen your post I've checked my memory consumption and I had a 16Gb pagefile and 4gb of ram used (not flushed after having quit XSI and Octane). Strange.
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/12057375[/vimeo]

Nice, like it.
Hope that i can make my obj-export work...

[face]

Good news about the obj export;)

http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... 067#p18067

[face]

Hope that the addon works with the new release, haven´t test it.
Tomorrow i will try it

face

[face]

The addon don´t work with the new Octane release.
I will fix it in 10 hours.

face

[adrencg]

Hi all,

I will monitor this as well...
I played with a little animation today, rendered 125 frames several times and after having seen your post I've checked my memory consumption and I had a 16Gb pagefile and 4gb of ram used (not flushed after having quit XSI and Octane). Strange.
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/12057375[/vimeo]

What about the non-smooth look of the sphere? I've been getting this also. Do we have to use millions of polys to make round objects look smooth in Octane? A bad workflow issue for the exporter is that I have to convert my subD models to polygon, but even then, I'm not making nearly enough poly to get a smooth look.

[Lutze]

When I installed the new stable Octane 2.2 this morning I tried the softimage plugin that comes with it. It is not working but instead I have to set the "old" RC3 in the exporter to be able to export the scene. When I choose the stable release it won´t accept it and the space in the form remains empty. Anything I can do about it?

Sven

[Amplitude]

Hi Lutze,

The addon don´t work with the new Octane release.
I will fix it in 10 hours.
face

well, just wait for 10 hours

[Amplitude]

What about the non-smooth look of the sphere? I've been getting this also. Do we have to use millions of polys to make round objects look smooth in Octane? A bad workflow issue for the exporter is that I have to convert my subD models to polygon, but even then, I'm not making nearly enough poly to get a smooth look.

I agree and I'm getting nasty shading/reflection errors if I turn the smoothing on this material.
But it is a very basic material as I haven't bothered too much, this scene purpose was to test multipass rendering between Octane and Mental Ray (motion vectors, Zdepth).
I think we should wait a bit and see what face comes up with his new .obj exporter.

On the contrary in this other scene I've got perfectly smoothed spheres....

[face]

I´m back...
Add a thing and will pack the addon, maybe 20-30 minutes.

face