Schematic: Invalid pin (for a rotation)

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I think I would need to see a .LXO to determine the specific problem. However if using projections, make sure Live Geometry Update is ticked for the mesh item, and make sure the projection is set to Local Coordinates, and not World Coordinates.

As for the units, I would expect the rotation would be in degrees, and the translation would be in meters.

Paul

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Ah, thank You. These are good hints. I will test it later …

[Uhlhorn]

However if using projections, make sure Live Geometry Update is ticked for the mesh item …

It was on.

… and make sure the projection is set to Local Coordinates, and not World Coordinates.

It was set too.

As for the units, I would expect the rotation would be in degrees, and the translation would be in meters.

This was the problem! The units for length are meters. Please add this important information to the manual!

This is my new setup now:

[Uhlhorn]

I found two bugs:

The first bug: No texture updates when rotating via keyframes
When I set rotation keyframes, octane will not update the rotation while changing the frame. I have to reload the scene on each frame to get Octane updated. When I change the rotation value manually, Octane will update.

The second bug: No texture rotation on values over 360° and lower –360°
When I use values higher than 360 degrees or lower than –360° Octane will not update the rotation. And in this case it does not help to reload the scene.

[face_off]

The first bug: No texture updates when rotating via keyframes
When I set rotation keyframes, octane will not update the rotation while changing the frame. I have to reload the scene on each frame to get Octane updated. When I change the rotation value manually, Octane will update.

Try enabling Kernel->Animation->Reload Materials Each Frame.

The second bug: No texture rotation on values over 360° and lower –360°
When I use values higher than 360 degrees or lower than –360° Octane will not update the rotation. And in this case it does not help to reload the scene.

The rotation values within Octane are limited to values between -360 and 360, so you will need to work within this constraint.

Paul

[Uhlhorn]

Try enabling Kernel->Animation->Reload Materials Each Frame.

I changed my concept totally, because ist is not possible to make it in the planned manner (see angle limitation).

The rotation values within Octane are limited to values between -360 and 360, so you will need to work within this constraint.

Hmm … this is not helpful. There are many use cases for angles greater then 360°. You should change it.

In the schematic I can’t reduce larger angles like for example 540° to 180° easily. There are no conditional constructs in schematic (if-then-else). To get a reduced angle I have to script. But for a developer it is easy to reduce larger input angles to internally required angles.

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Hmm … this is not helpful. There are many use cases for angles greater then 360°. You should change it.

That plugin does not contain any logic to handle this - it is just directly converting the Modo channel modifier out value to a pin value. So sorry, this is a limitation of the current implementation of the plugin.

Paul