Octane Render 1.022 beta2.2 RC3 available [obsolete]

[radiance]

Hi all,

we're still packaging, we've an ETA for 1-2 hours for the release of 2.2 final.

Radiance

[kubo]

you guys rule... so, I'm afraid I'll spend the whole night "proceduraling" away
Thanks and great job!

[Elvio]

Where is it????!!!!! Im on hold!!!

Cya!

[Elvio]

Hi Radiance.. I just would like to warn you about 1 bug in this 1.022 final version... When i hit render in my maya script, octane open´s and all is going fine, the only1 problem is when you move the view and hit "reset camera to default" the camera comeback to a different position...

cya

[carbon]

ah, CMD and LMB works, is it supposed to work this way? i've got regular 3 button mouse, not the apple one..

hi,
i have one issue i can't find anything about in the forum..
i cannot pan image with mouse nor tablet. i can only rotate and zoom. in beta2.1 it doesn't work as well. ah forgot to mention i am on mac os x 10.6.3
c.

have you tried with the CTRL or CMD buttons ?

Radiance

[Halford]

I do not know what is been recoded in octane but I noticed one thing.

I have a complex mesh of a car interior that charged well on the RC1 demo.

I had problems charging it on my first licensed release, sometime the screen was black, sometime it flashed...sometime it was fine.

Now with the latest demo or licensed released It charges but freezes after I click the meshnode.

I test the two versions (demo and license) as the license is on my personal machine and the demo at my client office.

I have this issue just with some obj....but that worked before.

any idea?

I know this post is useless as I cannot provide the obj file due to client confidentiality rules...but maybe someone is having a similar issue...

Hal.

[r10k]

Something I'm a bit confused about with 2.2 RC3. The current manual for 2.3 says,

The roughness determines the amount of reflection that will be present. A low roughness
value will create blurry reflections and a high value will produce a mirror like reflection.
Values below 40 are not recommended.

Yet the roughness slider seems to work backwards- at its lowest setting I get mirror reflections, and obviously at its highest, I get blurry.

Also, if I set the control for roughness from floattexture to something else, and then return it back to floattexture, the slider's position produces different results. At its lowest value (that with spec at 0.5 I'd normally get mirror reflections) I now get a black object. This is with sunlight and directlighting.

[Chris_TC]

Yet the roughness slider seems to work backwards- at its lowest setting I get mirror reflections, and obviously at its highest, I get blurry.

That's actually the correct behaviour. The rougher a surface the blurrier its reflection because the micro-bumps scatter the light rays. The cone angle for this scattering increases with roughness.
In the case of an insanely rough surface like cloth, the light rays get scattered in ALL directions, and you end up with a completely diffuse surface.

[r10k]

Heh, thanks Chris_TC. I actually figured that out during my mucking about, but forgot about it when looking at the manual! But anyway, it looks like the manual is wrong.

Can anyone confirm the floattexture problem?

[radiance]

Hi guys,

We're working on a new updated manual, the 2.2 manual did not include a few last minute changes.
basically float is not only for parameters and floatexture is a greyscale colour to be used in textures on material slots. (don't use float anymore on textures)

Radiance