OctaneRender® for 3ds max® v2.05a (Updated)

[3dgeeks]

Nice, its good to see regular updates.

It would be good to start another vote for new feature requests, to supercede the one leading up to 2.0.

I would include

- complete matting solution
- better shader integration with max viewport
- access to more of max procedurals such as noises and tiles
- Octane proxy system.
- Net Render manager
- Saving of partial rendered samples, with ability to restart

[merid888]

thank you karba, i'll test

[JuM]

Hi Karba.
Random color texture is reassigning each frame and chaging color. I created a forest scene with instancing just a one tree. I gave color gradient map for the leaves. Then gave random color texture to the leaves. Started animated render and its changing the color of the leaves each frame. It could be nice if i would be static colors.

[darkline]

Having serious problems with every release of Octane 2 onwards. Basically a scene that used to render on 1.55 fails everytime in 2.x

I have tried to find the fault by hiding/turning things off in my scene, and discovered it comes down to the VRAM overspilling in 2.x. So I started to delete objects to get the poly count down and did this test - deleted all the fur bar 1 object (it's actually mesh created from fur the fur modifier has been removed). Then ran it in both versions of octane :

2.05a

1.55

You can see that for some reason the same scene is taking over 1GB more in octane 2. Now, I thought this might be due to some of my hidden layers still having hair and fur modifiers on them (even though they are disabled in the stack). So I removed everything in the scene but a single mesh and re-saved the file. To be clear this scene contains just a mesh and a light - no modifiers.

This is the scene opened in 1.55

This is exactly the same scene in 205 :

As you can see in Octane 1.55 the scene takes up 1.4GB and in Octane 2.05 it takes up 2.3GB

This is the same max file simply rendered with the two versions of octane. Since version 2 has been released I cannot open the full file of this character without running out of RAM and octane failing every time.

[Karba]

Having serious problems with every release of Octane 2 onwards. Basically a scene that used to render on 1.55 fails everytime in 2.x

I have tried to find the fault by hiding/turning things off in my scene, and discovered it comes down to the VRAM overspilling in 2.x. So I started to delete objects to get the poly count down and did this test - deleted all the fur bar 1 object (it's actually mesh created from fur the fur modifier has been removed). Then ran it in both versions of octane :

2.05a

octane 205.jpg

1.55

octane 155b.jpg

You can see that for some reason the same scene is taking over 1GB more in octane 2. Now, I thought this might be due to some of my hidden layers still having hair and fur modifiers on them (even though they are disabled in the stack). So I removed everything in the scene but a single mesh and re-saved the file. To be clear this scene contains just a mesh and a light - no modifiers.

This is the scene opened in 1.55

octane 155head.jpg

This is exactly the same scene in 205 :

octane 205head.jpg

As you can see in Octane 1.55 the scene takes up 1.4GB and in Octane 2.05 it takes up 2.3GB

This is the same max file simply rendered with the two versions of octane. Since version 2 has been released I cannot open the full file of this character without running out of RAM and octane failing every time.

fixed, now it takes the same amount of memory.
wait for a new release.

[darkline]

Thank you Karba