This is another bug-fix release - hopefully the last one before we can call it a stable version 4.
Please note that this build will expire in 120 days, this is now shown on the bottom right of the Standalone release.
As before, some introductory material on V4 can be found here: first release post of V4.
Please make sure you have NVIDIA driver 387 or newer on Windows and Linux, and any CUDA driver for Mac that supports CUDA 9.1. Please also note that architecture improvements mean we can no longer support Fermi GPUs.
Changes since OctaneRender 4 RC4:
- Octane is now trying to prevent the computer to go to sleep while rendering.
- Made a change in the render pipeline that hopefully increases the refresh rate at the beginning of rendering.
- Octane prints now a warning in the log if the environment variable CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES or CUDA_LAUNCH_BLOCKING is set. The effect of these is that not all GPUs are visible, causing rendering to be slower.
- Added support for emitters with "surface brightness" disabled to hair geometry.
- Fixed bug causing hair geometry emission to not to work at all.
- Fixed a bug where denoised alpha causes artifacts in denoiser output (see viewtopic.php?p=345938#p345938).
- Fixed a crash of an OSX net render master when a slave connects with it.
- Fixed incorrect alpha weight of beauty passes causing noisy, aliased edges (see viewtopic.php?p=345594#p345594).
- Fixed incorrect transition of the shadow passes to the background and between active and inactive layers.
- Fixed crash while changing the import preferences of a geometry archive of which we use its camera for rendering.
- Fixed crash when reloading the same texture node while its compression is still ongoing.
- Fixed crash or incorrect normal import of subdivided, deformed meshes (see viewtopic.php?p=346199#p346199).
- Fixed crash of the net render master (on OSX) when a slave connects with it (see viewtopic.php?p=346347#p346347).
- Fixed incorrect values displayed in the not-enough-memory error message of the denoiser (see viewtopic.php?p=346310#p346310).
- OSL: Fixed detection of derivatives (
Dx
andDy
intrinsics) which are not supported. - OSL: When you save an OSL node or scripted graph which currently refers to a file in an ORBX package, do not show an error dialog. Instead clear the file name attribute and save the code.
Downloads for users with a regular license
OctaneRender for Windows (installer)
OctaneRender for Windows (zip)
OctaneRender for Mac OS
OctaneRender for Linux
Downloads for users with a Studio subscription license
OctaneRender for Windows (installer)
OctaneRender for Windows (zip)
OctaneRender for Mac OS
OctaneRender for Linux
Happy rendering,
Your OTOY Team