OctaneRender™ 3.0 for LightWave™ - Beta build 3.00.15.0

[juanjgon]

Hi!

This is the last beta build of the OctaneRender™ 3.0 for LightWave™ plugin. This 3.00.15.0 release is available for Lightwave 10.1, 11.6 and 2015.3 Windows x64 and OSX.

Alpha and beta version disclaimer
In contrast to v2 we want to do the alpha and beta testing publicly, to get more feedback earlier and to have changes tested more thoroughly. The plan is to let all users with a valid v2 license use the v3 alpha and beta versions. v3 alpha/beta versions will stop working on 1st June 2016.

This is an beta release, so please consider this more a test or development release which may not be stable enough for a production environment.

Beta release 3.00.15.0
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... indows.zip
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... .0_OSX.zip

Standalone version for the network rendering nodes
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... _4_win.exe
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... _macos.dmg

New features of OctaneRender™ 3.00
viewtopic.php?f=33&t=51679

How to install the plugin
- (Only for Windows) Remove all the old Octane plugin 2.2 files (octane.dll, octane.dat and the .p plugin file), or add a new LightWave installation to your system to test Octane 3.0
- (Only for Windows) Copy the octane.dll, tbb.dll and octane.dat files into you install Lightwave/bin directory. You must overwrite the LightWave tbb.dll file.
- Add the plugin to the Lightwave Layout.
- Install the custom menu bar to get access to the Octane features.


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RELEASE 3.00.15.0
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* NEW PLUGIN FEATURES:
- The TDF features are now available in OSX.
- Removed the TFD voxel and grid size and offset parameters. Now they are extracted from the containers.
- Support of the TFD adaptive containers.

* OCTANE BUGS FIXED:
- Fixed crash of net render slave during startup.
- Fixed handling of CTRL-C on net render slaves while entering the SSO credentials on the command line.
- Better handling of license files in user folders with non-ASCII characters.
- Improved handling expiration of SSO authentications. Due to this change you will have to reenter your credentials if you switch between previous beta versions and beta 4.


Thanks,
-Juanjo

[BorisGoreta]

Yeeepeee ! Adaptive containers !

[juanjgon]

Yeeepeee ! Adaptive containers !

Yes, they should work fine now. If you find any problem, please let me know.

Thanks,
-Juanjo

[royk]

I just combo upgraded to V3, when will provide final release for download?

[juanjgon]

I just combo upgraded to V3, when will provide final release for download?

Tomorrow, I hope. But anyway you should be able to use the last beta at least all this week.

-Juanjo

[royk]

I just combo upgraded to V3, when will provide final release for download?

Tomorrow, I hope. But anyway you should be able to use the last beta at least all this week.

-Juanjo

No problem.... keep to come out best things for us.

Thanks Juanjo

[pryzm]

Some licensing issues. It seems LW is finally working fine, but I can't connect LW to a networked machine because the version number is incorrect. (3.0.20 it says) Is this a LW (because the LW version is different 3.0.15) or an Octane network issue (because of the way it handles the network now)?

thanks!

bruce

ps. I couldn't use my beta versions for some reason either, it said, "beta was over, can't use it..." (It's not June 1 yet). I had already purchased the upgrade, so not a huge deal to fix.

[juanjgon]

Hmmm, if you are using this beta plugin (3.00.15.0), for network rendering you should use the Standalone beta 4 that is available in the first post. the 3.00.20.0 is the final Octane 3.0 release.

Anyway tomorrow I hope to have ready the final Octane 3 for LightWave plugin, that will be also the 3.00.20.0 build.

-Juanjo

[pryzm]

Thanks Juanjo! I figured it had to do with the licenses I was using. I don't recall if I was using the latest beta build when it wouldn't work (probably), but I can wait until tomorrow for the release version.

Happy coding! Thanks for your hard work and efforts, it really is an amazing product that I've had a great time using!

bruce

[jang2235]

LW Plugin 3.00.20.0 version when released?

When trying to use as C4D Plugin match the version C4D is using 3.00.20.0.