DAZ Octane Viewport don't show anything

Fri Jan 23, 2015 8:59 pm

Just bought and installed so I'm a newbie and could do something wrong.

I loaded a model.
Added a camera and selected it.
Clicked the Octane Viewport button.
It opens with a animated yellow progress bar thingy up right.
I have seen on youtube that this should show GPU info but that info never appears.
Am I doing something wrong here?

One thing that confuses me as well is that if I go to Octane Render Main and the OctaneLive it shows my OctaneLive
username byt the OctaneLiveActivation symbol is a read X and the OctaneLive Connection symbol shows a red disconnected plug. Both symbols make me think that its not properly activated. But if I click the Activation Manager button below, the manager loads and reports me as activated.

Standalone version works just fine so no problem with my graphic card (GTX970 4Gb).

Fri Jan 23, 2015 9:11 pm

Just to clarify, you did purchase an Octane for Daz Studio license (which has different info for activation than the standalone), correct? The standalone does not get you the plugin, they are separate items. Not sure if your post indicates that, if it does and I'm missing it, read on.

If so, which version of the plugin did you install, and have you checked your Octane LiveAccounts page here on Otoy to verify that it is activated?
If it is, you might try deactivating it (the option to do so the only real indication it is currently activated, by the way), and waiting a bit (up to 30 minutes, I'm told, it never takes that long for me), and then reactivating it.

Fri Jan 23, 2015 9:30 pm

I bought the DAZ Beta + Standalone.
So I have two accounts.
One for the standalone and one for the DAZ plugin.
Locking at my OctaneLive Account page there is a link to deactivate on eatch of them.
I suppose this means that they are both in active state.

If I try what you suggest and deactivate and then activate the DAZ plugin again, do you suggest that I do it on the OctaneLive Account page or from inside Octane Main Settings and the OctaneLive tab?

Fri Jan 23, 2015 9:43 pm

I would personally deactivate it from the page, wait about five minutes, then reopen Daz Studio and attempt to reactivate the plugin.

You still didn't mention which version you installed, nor where you got it from, which may be a factor. If you got it from the Downloads page in your account, go to the first stickied thread in this subforum ("OcDS 2.1 Pre Release 5th"), there is a link to download the current state of all versions (it's an all in one installer, you choose the version from within it that you would like to install). If your install came from the Downloads page, simply install the one from the thread named over it (no need to uninstall anything, and you have nothing important to overwrite yet, so that makes it easier). Once you finish the new install, it'll try to activate, and should. I would do this after the deactivation above, just to be on the safe side, and then once newly re-installed, go to the re-opening of Daz Studio.

See if that fixes it for you.

Fri Jan 23, 2015 10:11 pm

Nice...
Now it renders.
Without materials, just white.
But I suppose It's a manual process to assign materials.

Thank's for quick help

Fri Jan 23, 2015 10:32 pm

Not a problem. Assuming you went with 2.15 pre-release (as I think that's the one that by default to not load things, browsing through a few of the threads, especially ones with materials in the title (I think one was started by linvanchene, who usually writes very informative posts in general), will probably help you through a lot of the headaches, plus offer solid background for getting used to OcDS. Happy rendering!