OctaneRender™ Standalone 2.00

[nikostap]

Hey. Will the net render with hamachi? I tried to check. octane range 25.0.0.0 saw but did not find slave. What washes be the reason? After hamachi creates a local network.

I don't know. Network rendering should be used only over a real LAN and a 1GBit/s switch is very recommended. A network rendering master needs to send all the render data to the slaves, which can easily be a couple a of Gbytes. The Internet is too slow for that.

Got it thanks)

[Seekerfinder]

What we are going to do in the next release is to make the displacement height and shift fields slider-less, i.e. you either have to enter the values or use the RMB slider. This should avoid that you accidentally set a very high displacement height/shift.

Finally...!

I've posted about weird and seemingly illogical slider values before (don't think I got a reply) and the exponential acceleration of some sliders is often very difficult to control. I wish you guys would review this throughout the app. Is a value of 0.000-1 really sensible? Why don't we standardize all values either 1-100 or 1-1000 and lose those silly decimal values?

I'm probably missing something but a response / explanation to the current logic would be appreciated.

A related issue: clicking in a bar to adjust the value, adjusts the slider location if it's near the value field in the slider... Just frustrating. Fuzzy addressed this successfully in the SketchUp plugin by changing the cursor cue to indicate that the text is editable when close to the value field without affecting the slider and consequently the render settings. Simple yet effective. Would you care to consider this for Standalone?

Best,
Seeker

[pegot]

I found that right clicking on the slider allows one to instantly enter a numerical value and I do this to avoid accidentally changing values to way higher than intended . Also right clicking and dragging will adjust the sliders in a much finer increment than left click and drag. I don't recall if this was the case in Octane v1 but it is now how it works in v2.

[r-username]

Does standalone have a displacement node workaround for a mesh without a uv map, mesh goes black.

Below is from the lightwave forum.
"Yes, currently displacement only works with UV maps, but you can use the old Octane UVMAP node to apply a UV map at render time if your object doesn't have it."

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A second question with the daylight environment node.

Is there a way to lower the sun shadow visibility, I know about the sun size and turbidity, but I am looking to reduce the shadow by 50% and keep the other values

[abstrax]

Does standalone have a displacement node workaround for a mesh without a uv map, mesh goes black.

Below is from the lightwave forum.
"Yes, currently displacement only works with UV maps, but you can use the old Octane UVMAP node to apply a UV map at render time if your object doesn't have it."

No, currently there is no other way than using UV maps.

A second question with the daylight environment node.

Is there a way to lower the sun shadow visibility, I know about the sun size and turbidity, but I am looking to reduce the shadow by 50% and keep the other values

You can increase "Turbidity" which will cause the sky to become more "hazy", i.e. the contrast between daylight and sunlight is less strong.

[r-username]

Does standalone have a displacement node workaround for a mesh without a uv map, mesh goes black.

Below is from the lightwave forum.
"Yes, currently displacement only works with UV maps, but you can use the old Octane UVMAP node to apply a UV map at render time if your object doesn't have it."

No, currently there is no other way than using UV maps.

A second question with the daylight environment node.

Is there a way to lower the sun shadow visibility, I know about the sun size and turbidity, but I am looking to reduce the shadow by 50% and keep the other values

You can increase "Turbidity" which will cause the sky to become more "hazy", i.e. the contrast between daylight and sunlight is less strong.

Thanks I will give Turbidity another try

[smicha]

Thanks I will give Turbidity another try

Additionally you can increase the sun size to "blur" shadows

[Refracty]

Is it possible that Crease Edges from Maya will be understood by the Octane Standalone (Alembic Scene)?

[pegot]

Is it possible that Crease Edges from Maya will be understood by the Octane Standalone (Alembic Scene)?

I already tried that and creased edges do not seem to be carried in. It is basically all edges or nothing unless you bevel them in host app.

I previously started a thread on that:
http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=40443

Would be a good feature improvement if they could do it I think.

[TheMightySpud]

Hey. Will the net render with hamachi? I tried to check. octane range 25.0.0.0 saw but did not find slave. What washes be the reason? After hamachi creates a local network.

This is something I was investigating too. At the moment it's not possible as Octane only allocates 10ms to search per IP and generally speaking the ping from one machine to another over the web takes longer (in my experiments we were looking at 30-40ms ping times)

I was told that the team are looking into better ways of discovering slaves/nodes and that it would likely solve the problem.

TheMightySpud