No RenderTarget setting?

[Biffo]

I just upgraded to 2.0 The Octane Plugin for poser gives me this error when trying to open a viewport.

No Rendertarget settings were found for this scene.

Does anyone have any experience with this error? Also I'm using Poser 10 on a 64 bit machine.
Can I use the 64 bit version of Octane with the 32 bit plugin, and what is the optimum setup for speed under using the 32 bit bversion of poser.
TIA

[wimvdb]

The No RenderTargete setting is just a warning which you get if there are no RenderTarget settings yet - which is tue in all new scenes.
Once you have seen it, it will not appear again for that scene.
In general it means that the scene has not been opened in the plugin before

If you are running the 64 bit version of Poser Pro, you need to use the 64 but plugin. If you install it, you will get the appropriate octane render engine (is installed with it)
If you are running P9/P10 or 32 but Poser Pro, you need to run the 32bit installer.
So it is not really a choice, it depends which Poser version you are using

Optimum setup for speed...
What speed are you asking about - Render speed? UI speed? Preview speed?
All of them are a tradeoff between functionality and speed. Render speed - use DirectLighing kernel, UI Speed - use a second video card for the UI or set the priority for the GPU lower and turn off Auto Refresh, Preview speed - turn off HardwareShading

[Biffo]

Thanks for the attention. I think this is a installation issue, as this was not a problem I had with version onein Poser 10. The MainWacros WIndow ouputs this:

" File "C:\Program Files\Smith Micro\Poser Pro 2014\Runtime\Python\addons\OctaneRender for Poser\ViewManager.py", line 51, in GetDefaultSceneRenderTargetNode
File "C:\Program Files\Smith Micro\Poser Pro 2014\Runtime\Python\addons\OctaneRender for Poser\ViewManager.py", line 215, in MenuCommand_LoadFromDefault
File "F:\Program Files (x86)\Smith Micro\Poser 10\Runtime\Python\lib\pickle.py", line 1378, in load
return Unpickler(file).load()
File "F:\Program Files (x86)\Smith Micro\Poser 10\Runtime\Python\lib\pickle.py", line 858, in load
dispatch[key](self)
File "F:\Program Files (x86)\Smith Micro\Poser 10\Runtime\Python\lib\pickle.py", line 880, in load_eof
raise EOFError
EOFError
"

and no matter what I do I get the no rendertarget error. Save reloading, uninstalling, reinstalling, over repeatedly. Still getting this. I suspect this might be an issue with have 'leftover' bits of previous octane plugin versions, but I don't know how to crlear them out better than i already have.



BTW the 3ds 2011 Max version of the plug in works just fine, this has to be an issue with the poser component.

Again, TIA.

[face_off]

Hi Biffo - it might be the "Default" rendertarget layout has become corrupt. To fix this, delete the rendertarget default file, described at "Load/Save as Default" at http://render.otoy.com/manuals/Poser/?page_id=52.

Paul

[Biffo]

Thanks Paul, but I have no tree showing up. I had the 1.X version of Octane working just fine, this is odd. Which File is it explicitly, Perhaps I could use explorer to locate and delete it.

TIA

[face_off]

Which File is it explicitly, Perhaps I could use explorer to locate and delete it.

The file to delete is detailed in the link provided above. See the section "Load/Save as Default".

Paul

[Biffo]

I had deleted that particular file. I still fails to make a new file and gives me the same error message: no rendertarget. Incidentally, I expected it to make a new rendertarget.por file in that folder but it didn't.

[face_off]

I had deleted that particular file. I still fails to make a new file and gives me the same error message: no rendertarget. Incidentally, I expected it to make a new rendertarget.por file in that folder but it didn't.

Is it giving you the pickle python error, or just the popup dialog warning? If the later, you can turn that off in the Settings (expert mode). The rendertarget.por file is only created when you "Save as Default" a particular rendertarget.

Paul

[Biffo]

thanks for your help Paul.
One issue that is a red flag is its looking in the wrong instalation folder for thsoe files it's failing to find. where can I change the location? I'm not using poser 2014, it installed the trial but never bought it. I'm only using poser 10. BTW I finally got the plugin for Max working And I'm Tres happy.
These are the files I'm getting file location errors :

File "C:\Program Files\Smith Micro\Poser Pro 2014\Runtime\Python\addons\OctaneRender for Poser\SetupForm.py", line 603, in EventOpenViewport
File "C:\Program Files\Smith Micro\Poser Pro 2014\Runtime\Python\addons\OctaneRender for Poser\UiManager.py", line 5269, in RefreshSetupForm
File "C:\Program Files\Smith Micro\Poser Pro 2014\Runtime\Python\addons\OctaneRender for Poser\Node.py", line 1022, in FillTreeView
File "C:\Program Files\Smith Micro\Poser Pro 2014\Runtime\Python\addons\OctaneRender for Poser\Node.py", line 1022, in FillTreeView
File "C:\Program Files\Smith Micro\Poser Pro 2014\Runtime\Python\addons\OctaneRender for Poser\Node.py", line 1016, in FillTreeView
File "C:\Program Files\Smith Micro\Poser Pro 2014\Runtime\Python\addons\OctaneRender for Poser\Node.py", line 963, in SetTreeItemText
File "C:\Program Files\Smith Micro\Poser Pro 2014\Runtime\Python\addons\OctaneRender for Poser\Node.py", line 892, in ParamToString
KeyError: 0

[Biffo]

Just as a add on, I created this folder and copied ove the files it was looking from where it was installed, and I still get the same error messages.