Octane - Deployment/Silent installation

[stir]

Hey

sorry if this been asked before but nothing showed up in the search.
except for maya. witch was a note that silent install was added to the pluginn installer (/S)

Can Octane render (standalone) and 3dsmax octane (plugin) install silently?
Is it also possible to add the login credentials to the silent installation? for licensing purposes.

We just got a couple of new computers at the office.
Its no big deal to manually install on a couple of computers. But sooner or later im probably charged with the task to reinstall the whole farm.

So to prepare myself im actually testing out creating a deployment for 3ds max 2016 and i would love to be able to deploy octane with it.
and in that regard i am wondering if Octane have any deployment commands or something to help ease this task


PS: This question is a bit splitted between Octane standalone and the 3Ds max plugin but i take my chances and posting it inn this thread here.

Thanks
-Mats

[stir]

So i just installed Octane standalone 3.04.3 with the /S command and it worked.

Then i tried the /S command on the 3.04.3-4.25 3ds max plugin with no luck, sadly.
Is the plugin exe using a different command or simply just dont have a silent option?

Cheers
-Mats

[paride4331]

Hi stir,
You could try with newer versions:
Octane Render Stand Alone stable 3.06 (new Adaptive sample support)
Https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... 06_win.exe
Octane 3dsMax render plugin test 4.32 - 3.06 (new Adaptive sample support)
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... -_4.32.exe
Octane 3dsMax render plugin 4.30 - 3.05.3 stable (new Adaptive sample support)
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... -_4.30.exe
Kind regards,
Gabriele
OTOY NZ Ltd

[stir]

Thanks paride.

I tried the latest version, with no luck sadly.

The standalone installs fine with silent parameters.
While the plugin one doesn't

Is there another way to install the plugin instead of using the .exe file? like copying some dll's and changing some reg keys?


-Mats

[stir]

OK.

So as an workaround on this one is to extract the .exe file
so you get acess to the underlying folders and files.

I then figured folder

-$_11_
-$_11_plugins

is the 2016 versions of the plugin.

From there all you need to do is create a short .bat script to copy thoes files to their respected locations.

Something like this:

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xcopy /s "\\x.x.x.x\stir2\Resources\_IT\Repository\Otoy\OctaneRender_for_3ds_Max_3.06_-_4.33\$_11_plugins\Octane3dsmax.dlr" "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2016\plugins" /Y

xcopy /s "\\10.0.1.3\stir2\Resources\_IT\Repository\Otoy\OctaneRender_for_3ds_Max_3.06_-_4.33\$_11_\octane.dat" "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2016\" /Y

xcopy /s "\\x.x.x.x\stir2\Resources\_IT\Repository\Otoy\OctaneRender_for_3ds_Max_3.06_-_4.33\$_11_\octane.dll" "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2016\" /Y

xcopy /s "\\x.x.x.x\stir2\Resources\_IT\Repository\Otoy\OctaneRender_for_3ds_Max_3.06_-_4.33\$_11_\tbb.dll" "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2016\" /Y

Now i can deploy this .bat file instead of the .exe installer.
Ofcourse this is more manual and dirty then a /s variable would have been, and even more so if i were to deploy to multiple different versions of max, but as long as the silent installation is absent you gotta use what you have.

Cheers
-Mats

[paride4331]

Hi stir,
a work around is to install manually first, and copy the 4 files bellow from max to a folder (eg d:/octInst)
then, those 4 files can be copied back to any max folder, using a bat file like:
cd D:\octInst
D:
copy .\Octane3dsmax.dlr "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2018\Plugins"
copy .\octane.dat "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2018"
copy .\octane.dll "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2018"
copy .\tbb.dll "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2018"
pause
(run the bat file as Administrator)
Regards
Paride

[stir]

Hi.

a silent install is still on my wish list.
so just wondering if there is any news about this?

Thanks.
-Mats

[mojave]

Please for feature requests either add or support the existing ones via the feature request system:

https://render.otoy.com/requests/

[stir]

some how i have missed that request page.
Thanks for the link.


Cheers
-Mats