OctaneRender™ V4 XB4

[roeland]

The format of the textures loaded by the image tiles node is the same as the image files. If an image is saved as grayscale, it will be loaded as a grayscale texture.

How to set up:

• First you select one of the images, eg. C:\path\to\tile-01-01.png
• Add placeholders, eg. C:\path\to\tile-[b]%u[/b]-[b]%v[/b].png.
• Then select the grid size.
• Then set up the index for the first tile and the amount of digits, eg. if the file above is the first tile, you have 2 digits and start index 1.
• Click preview to see which list of images will be loaded

[abstrax]

Anyone have network rendering working? First try it's not working. Firewall is allowed, Daemon Network port: 48000.

No active daemons show up as running. Network rending is working on this network with 3.08.

I just tried it and it works here. Please make sure that:
- your firewall settings are not blocking the master, daemons or slaves.
- the installed daemon and slaves have the same version as the master
- the daemon uses the same port as the daemon port in the master net render configuration
- the automatic port selection is enabled on the master, to make sure that multiple masters can run on the same machine

[Joss]

Good to see some progress.
Few questions though:
1. How many versions before official release or sort of?

2. Is it possible to add all those XBs 1-2-3-4 and plug-ins to Download section, because right now download links are scattered all over the forums.

3. I'm not holding any hopes, but is it possible to refine the standalone's UI?
It's always was looking like a lollipop for some reason with all those huge gradients.
Or maybe expose some external stylesheets so people could customize it?

[mykola1985]

I'm a bit disappointed about lacking features as hair and volumetrics. I hope they will be ''denoised soon''

[Notiusweb]

Hi! Haze had mentioned all around speed increases to most scenes, through improvements to tonemapping delta time and quality of samples. He had mentioned as upcoming for XB4, but it didn't look like the release notes for XB4 mentioned this at all. Was a systemic speed increase part of XB4, or not yet.
Thx.

[Studio21]

thx for the light linking, that a huge step forward! what about trace sets though?

ty for your hard work guys

[intelligentlight]

Awesome! Thanks a lot!

[coilbook]

hi
what is BXDF ?

[noldo]

It's possible to set translucency effect with universal material?

[haze]

Hi! Haze had mentioned all around speed increases to most scenes, through improvements to tonemapping delta time and quality of samples. He had mentioned as upcoming for XB4, but it didn't look like the release notes for XB4 mentioned this at all. Was a systemic speed increase part of XB4, or not yet.
Thx.

You should see a substantial improvement in AI Light (especially scenes that have a lot of small directional emitters), which is mentioned in the release notes. We have been inching upwards on general render speed, and there are some more experiments currently in progress, but no guarantees can be made right now. We're doing these changes incrementally, otherwise we would be affecting stability, which is our highest priority currently.