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[nildoe]

This is Great!!

Can someone please tell me if offline license was re-introduced? if not, when?

Hi Nildoe,
https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=68091&p=342506#p342506
Regards
Paride

Thanks Paride... I already knew of that post.. so this means that as of this moment offline mode is still not implemented.. I hope this gets fixed soon.

[fatrobotsneedlove]

"Nvidia’s new Turing architecture focuses on dedicated RT Cores for ray tracing, a technique that’s designed to improve lighting effects in games."

Will octane 4 support RT cores or only cudas

Now that our nvidia talk is done, we can talk about our work on this. We have an internal buid of V4 on RTX, and it’s faster, but not by the same amount we have gotten on Vulkan. We’re working with nvidia on this.

Is the talk online somewhere?

[enricocerica]

Well, after looking several times, trying and trying again I think this could be an issue.
I have loaded an object than exported again as I changed it and I'm not able to refresh it, just like if it always uses a cached version without updating it.
If I create a new mesh object and load the last exported version, I indeed get the good version, so I have tow meshes pointing to the same obj file but the result is different ...
Hope this is clear

Edit : Forget it, my bad, it was due to a bad UV unwrapping

[sauloarruda]

Denoising volumes is only working with Path Tracing? When I use PMC kernel, the denoising process doesn´t start.

Anyone notice this?

[ramone163]

Denoiser on large images crash Standalone and 3ds Max plugin.
Scene is only 1.5 Gb of VRAM. So how much denoiser need to render 5000x5000 pixel?
Please fix it.

[abstrax]

Denoising volumes is only working with Path Tracing? When I use PMC kernel, the denoising process doesn´t start.

Anyone notice this?

Yes, that's currently a limitation. For the denoiser to work we have to render a lot of passes, which we haven't implemented yet for PMC. It also would slow down PMC a lot. We are going to try to solve the issue in the future, but that's what it currently is.

[sauloarruda]

Denoising volumes is only working with Path Tracing? When I use PMC kernel, the denoising process doesn´t start.

Anyone notice this?

Yes, that's currently a limitation. For the denoiser to work we have to render a lot of passes, which we haven't implemented yet for PMC. It also would slow down PMC a lot. We are going to try to solve the issue in the future, but that's what it currently is.

Thanks for your answer.

And the other passes Will also have too a denoised version? Like Refraction, transmission, subsurface ?

[abstrax]

I can't mix 980 Ti with 1080, they can't work together but separately they work just fine.

Which driver version are you using? I have seen similar issues with driver 397 or higher and had to revert to 391.35 to make it work. If you don't think it's the driver, could you send me a simple scene or instructions to reproduce the problem? Thank you.

[vijay_thirukonda]

I get crashes all the time too, I can't modify anything while denoiser is active. Sliders especially have a bad way of crashing the engine while denoiser is running.
I use a separate 'preview' render target with Denoiser off, then I go and render with another one having Denoiser on.

Yesterday I fixed a bug related to enabling and disabling info passes while the denoiser is active. Do you think that the problem you face the same? if not? could you please provide more detail of what were you trying to modify ?.

[coilbook]

Hi do you have any examples of this or how to do galaxies, stars etc?

" Planetary environment: Improved appearance of star field"

By the way, this octane 5 looks amazing https://youtu.be/6ChweQETKTE

Here is a simple scene setup with the planetary environment.

Please note that the images are scaled down to avoid a huge file size.

Thanks it looks nice but will we see one for space animations. Like star fields, galaxies and they dont look pixelated? I really thought we would be able to do this like in this video https://youtu.be/jhc8AdI0MWg?t=3m27s