OctaneRender™ Standalone 3.03.1

[merid888]

regards
i have a problema, i been deinstalled the old versión 3.02 and installes new 3.03 but appear this, add image
thank yo octanerender team

[mojave]

@merid888

It should not make a difference whether you have 3.02 installed so I have just sent you a PM to gather some more information to make sure why this is happening in your case.

[haze]

It seems that the invert absortion option is broken. Can you confirm?

Kind regards
Filipe

Yes correct, currently it works only with absorption medium, with scattering and volume medium it doesn't work. Thanks for pointing it out ;)
ciao beppe

Thanks, it's fixed for next release.

[manalokos]

When using batch rendering, the rendered image and interface gets faded, which avoids a correct view of the render. This makes it very difficult to see the rendering in the correct colors.
Can you confirm this issue?

[kavorka]

Since upgrading to 3.03, we keep on getting an Octane Live Account Error (image attached).
It closes Octane, losing our work. This has happened several times on all of our computers here.

4 more times today just on my computer. Octane is almost unusable at this point. I can't render anything out cause it crashes before it's done.
emailed customer support and haven't heard anything back yet.

Please make sure that you only use version 3.02 or higher at the same time. If this problem occurs even if you don't run older versions, then please get in touch with us. If you open and close say version 3.01 or 3.00 while running 3.02 or 3.03, then the license usage counting is done differently. It was changed with version 3.02:

• Refactored the system that keeps track of the number of concurrent uses of a license on the system. We originally used a third-party library for this which unfortunately crashed in some circumstances. It's now simply file based and should be more robust. Please note that only Octane instances of version 3.02 and higher can be tracked with this system and that you close older versions before you sign out.

We are all on 3.03-1 right now and my co-worker had it happen 4 times this morning in a matter of 30 mins.
I just re-formatted our 4th computer and havent put the new version on it yet. It was last logged in with 3.0. Is that causing a problem?

[kavorka]

• Refactored the system that keeps track of the number of concurrent uses of a license on the system. We originally used a third-party library for this which unfortunately crashed in some circumstances. It's now simply file based and should be more robust. Please note that only Octane instances of version 3.02 and higher can be tracked with this system and that you close older versions before you sign out.

Upon more thinking, I realized that we are using the unofficial blender exporter script to get out .objs and camera data into standalone. It was still pointing to 3.0 for that (we would copy the camera data from that new octane instance over to our working file). We made it point to the newer version of of Octane and I think we are good so far. I will let you know if we have any other problems. Thank you for point that out, I don't think I would have thought to change that otherwise.

[guillerodriguezv]

Hi
I am having same issue with the license check (like merid888). Please could you help me I can not work with plugins.

Thanks

NOTE: Solved, reinstalled previous version and reactivated.

[mojave]

@guillerodriguezv @merid888

This happens if you are using offline licensing, your SSO session has expired (which happens after a week) and your license data needs to be updated (which happens when you update from 3.02 to 3.03.1).

In Standalone you should be able to continue working if you press 'OK', which will prompt you the sign-in window to ask your user's password and re-initialize your session.

If you are using a plugin, this functionality has not been made available yet so you will probably notice that the plugin is not authenticated and cannot seem to be able to re-authenticate (probably will see the error "SSO sign in was canceled". At the moment this can be circumvented by deleting your credentials file located at %APPDATA%/OctaneRender/otoy_credentials. This will however be fixed in the next release.

[Draydin_r]

I have been having somewhat of an issue with the specular material and render passes. Is this supposed to be happening?

Beauty_Capture.PNG

DirectLight_Capture.PNG

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DiffuseFilter_Capture.PNG

As it stands this would make using Altus very problematic, as Altus has mentioned that it needs the direct light visibility and I was assuming that the Direct Light Filter was what you need to use. It seems anything behind glass (with or without fake shadows/affect alpha) would not sample properly. It also seems that there are issues sampling anything behind glass in octane in general from what I've noticed...

Is there something I'm missing?

Cheers,
Draydin_r

[bepeg4d]

Hi Draydin_r,
do you have the "Affect alpha" option active in your specular material?

Screen Shot 2016-07-26 at 09.13.34.jpg

ciao beppe