OctaneRender™ Standalone 3.05 Tweet

[abstrax]

Hi all,

After various test builds here now the proper (hopefully) stable release, which improves the rounded edges as much as possible using the current topology driven approach. This version also adds a couple of smaller features that have been requested.


Changes since version 3.04.5:

• Overhauled the rounded edges compilation and rendering. This version represents the best we think we can do with the current system and we are working on a new approach which will hopefully be more robust.
• Added option "merge unwelded vertices" the geometry import preferences. Enabling this option will merge nearby vertices, to improve the calculation of vertex normals and rounded edges.
• Added option "collapse items" to the context menu of the node graph editor to collapse one or more nodes into their destination pins. This will automatically collapse their input nodes, too. The default shortcut is CTRL-M.
• Added option "expand items" to the context menu of the node graph editor to expand the internal nodes of one or more selected nodes. The default shortcut is CTRL-E.
• Added option "expand" to the context menu of the node inspector to expand an internal node out of its pin.
• Replaced option "distributed ray-tracing" in the render passes node with the enum "distributed tracing mode" which provides a new option "non-distributed, no pixel filtering" that disables pixel filtering/anti-aliasing in all info passes, except AO, wireframe and render layer mask (see viewtopic.php?f=30&t=55763).
• Reduced the GPU memory usage of deep pixel rendering for larger images.
• Added information about the number of emitting triangles and instances to the resource statistics of the render viewport status bar (right-click).
• Fixed crash in loop subdivision mode (see viewtopic.php?p=297429#p297429).
• Fixed device failure when a small film region is rendered with deep pixels.
• Fixed integer overflow during HDR tone mapping when huge images are rendered resulting in the bottom of the image being black.
• Fixed loading of OBJ files with partial normal/UV definitions (see viewtopic.php?p=296280#p296280).
• Fixed incorrect loading of some OpenVDB files with constant voxel groups, which don't have the background value.
• Fixed film region selection tool which set the film region size one pixel too small.
• Fixed un-do of changes after a re-do of an un-group command.
• Lua: Added octane.node.collapse(), octane.node.expand() and octane.node.expandOutOfPin() to the API.
• Lua: Added octane.nodegraph.expand() and octane.nodegraph.expandOutOfPin() to the API.
• Lua: Added emittingTriangleCount and emittingInstanceCount to PROPS_RENDER_MEM_USAGE.

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Photoshop workflow plugin download

You can download and install the plugin either via the Adobe Exchange platform or you can download it from the link below and manually install it.

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- Photoshop extension (v1.0.3) (ZXP archive)


Happy rendering,
Your OTOY NZ Team

[manalokos]

Great! Thank you!
Have a nice weekend.

Regards
Filipe

[funk]

Thanks to the new vertex merging option, I'm now getting better results with rounded edges.

In the past, we had to use a special option in the modo plugin (load cage) to export merged vertices correctly. Unfortunately, when this option was enabled, it also removed modo's auto generated vertex normals. You had to manually generate the vertex normals for best results. Now that the "load cage" option isn't needed, we get the generated vertex normals without the extra work, which helps the Octane rounded edges look better.

I'm still getting better results by manually editing the mesh, then triangulating it in a "nice" way though (eg poles in the center of cylinder caps). I would obviously prefer not to have to do any of that. Hopefully the new approach you are working on will deal with this better.

Once again, thanks for working on rounded edges. Many of us have been waiting for this for a long time.

[FrankPooleFloating]

Speaking of triangles, you would think that it could make the engine more efficient and speed up voxelization if the engine could somehow keep quads and not need to triangulate everything during vox... I think I asked about this before, but not sure I got an answer. No biggie. Just thinkin' and crap...

[calus]

[*] Added option "collapse items" to the context menu of the node graph editor to collapse one or more nodes into their destination pins. This will automatically collapse their input nodes, too. The default shortcut is CTRL-M.
[*] Added option "expand items" to the context menu of the node graph editor to expand the internal nodes of one or more selected nodes. The default shortcut is CTRL-E.
[*] Added option "expand" to the context menu of the node inspector to expand an internal node out of its pin.
[*] Lua: Added octane.node.collapse(), octane.node.expand() and octane.node.expandOutOfPin() to the API.
[*] Lua: Added octane.nodegraph.expand() and octane.nodegraph.expandOutOfPin() to the API.

This is very nice to have this as a builtin Octane feature, thanks !
And as it is also in the API, I guess it will make plugin developer's life easier to export nicely organized ORBX.

[calus]

[*] Replaced option "distributed ray-tracing" in the render passes node with the enum "distributed tracing mode" which provides a new option "non-distributed, no pixel filtering" that disables pixel filtering/anti-aliasing in all info passes, except AO, wireframe and render layer mask (see viewtopic.php?f=30&t=55763).

Thanks a lot.

Such an important feature especially for zdepth and colorID.

Is there a reason this is only for passes and not for the InfoKernel ?

[abstrax]

[*] Replaced option "distributed ray-tracing" in the render passes node with the enum "distributed tracing mode" which provides a new option "non-distributed, no pixel filtering" that disables pixel filtering/anti-aliasing in all info passes, except AO, wireframe and render layer mask (see viewtopic.php?f=30&t=55763).

Thanks a lot.

Such an important feature especially for zdepth and colorID.

Is there a reason this is only for passes and not for the InfoKernel ?

No, just an oversight. The kernel node will be updated in the next release.

[enricocerica]

Can someone confirm that out of core is still working, I'm trying to load some previously working scenes but none of them are working anymore.

[bepeg4d]

Hi Enrico,
yes, I can confirm.
I have just opened an old scene with out-of-core active and it works as expected in v3.05:

Screen Shot 2016-12-20 at 09.27.26.jpg

ciao beppe

[enricocerica]

Hi Enrico,
yes, I can confirm.
I have just opened an old scene with out-of-core active and it works as expected in v3.05:

Screen Shot 2016-12-20 at 09.27.26.jpg

ciao beppe

Ok thanks Beppe, I will then investigate from my side.