Render animation

[gmaisg]

Hi, I am using Lightwave 11.6.3 and Octane for Lightwave 2.0.10. I haven't done any animation render up to now. I am trying to render an animation, but I think I must be doing something wrong. I setup for Octane and when I press F10 to render, it renders like one frame and them it crashes. And another thing, where do I setup the numbers of frames, because even setting up in the Render Globals, in the render window shows Frames: 1-120? If anybody could help I really apreciate, cause I have this job to deliever and the quality of Octane is superb and superior. Thanks in advance.

Ton

[juanjgon]

Hi, I am using Lightwave 11.6.3 and Octane for Lightwave 2.0.10. I haven't done any animation render up to now. I am trying to render an animation, but I think I must be doing something wrong. I setup for Octane and when I press F10 to render, it renders like one frame and them it crashes. And another thing, where do I setup the numbers of frames, because even setting up in the Render Globals, in the render window shows Frames: 1-120? If anybody could help I really apreciate, cause I have this job to deliever and the quality of Octane is superb and superior. Thanks in advance.

Ton

Can you please update your plugin version to the last daily build 2.6.1? ... I don't remember a crash rendering scenes, but please, update your plugin to be sure:
http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=40793

The only known source of crashes while rendering, not fixed yet, is that if you have an object with a 0 scale in the first frame, the render could crash, you only need to set the scale to 0.0001 to avoid this problem.

About the render frames, Octane works with the Lightwave render globals settings, like the LW native engine. The only issue is that Octane only support the single range type, but the first, last and step parameters should work fine.

-Juanjo

[gmaisg]

Hi juanjgon. Thank you for your rapid reply. I have already downloaded the 2.6.1 plugin and will check if it works, eventhough I think is something with my setup, maybe I could send you the file? I just did not understand when you said "The only issue is that Octane only support the single range type, but the first, last and step parameters should work fine.". Can you explain it? Anyway, thank you for your attention.

Best regards,

Ton

[juanjgon]

Yes, please, if your scene is crashing Octane please send it to me to test it here.

Attached you have an example about how to set the LW global settings to render an Octane animation from frame 1 to 50 ... as you can see is like render any LW animation, set the start and end frames and press F10

-Juanjo

[gmaisg]

Hi juanjgon, thanks again for the reply. I noticed that when I try to save the animation in the Output tab in Render Globals, Lightwave crashes. I have updated the plugin, but still crashes Lightwave when it is going to the second frame. Then I saved a sequence of images in the "Save RGB" instead and it worked. Is it suposed to be like that? I am attaching the model and the animation file, not setup for Octane cause it was crashing a lot. I ask for confidentiality cause it is still a project to be sold to a client.

Best regards,

Ton

[juanjgon]

Ahhh, yes true, sorry, this is known issue ... you can't save an animation in an AVI or Qt format. LightWave doesn't support the animation formats in the external render engines, and Layout always crash.

You need to save the animations as still images in any format, and later build the animation using any post software or tool. You can even build the animation file using the Layout: in an empty you can add the stills sequence as a background animated image, and later saving a sequence of this animated background using the native LW engine in any of the animation file formats.

-Juanjo

[gmaisg]

Hi juanjgon, thanks for your reply. OK, I got it. It is OK anyway, because using the video editor Lightworks all the sequence comes as one footing, and the quality of Octane is really superior. Congratulations for the superb job with the plugin.

Best regards,

Ton