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[tolitoli]

Can I make complex scene with a lot of materials without noise?
i have tried many settings (from the obvious as denoise) but still noise

Is because the render still in development?

just the first artist that comes to my mind:
https://corneliusdammrich.com/2003

Is it enough complex for you?

ciao,
Beppe

my question about Octane X for M1 Max C4D
Does the denoiser work perfectly? Or maybe I'm missing something in the settings

[bepeg4d]

Denoiser works great with M1/M2 here!
Much faster than Intel/AMD, even with M1 base!
Have you tried with 2022.1?

ciao,
Beppe

[RegSquires]

So this file is still giving me an issue. When I open it and work on it without opening the Live Viewer it's all good. I can then open Live Viewer and it renders beautifully. However if I close the Live Viewer I get a pretty consistent crash to a beach ball which needs a force quit. This is a heavily procedural render with the geometry being constructed on the fly with Spline Masks and a lot going on. Could this be the issue? Anyway sadly I have had to switch to Redshift to continue with this layout and File

I am using Octane X For Cinema 4D 2022.1 on an M1 Max MacBook Pro Monterey 12.6.1 and Cinema is 2023.1.3

[bepeg4d]

Hi RegSquires,
from what you have written, I suppose that plugin is not correctly installed, so you are having a conflict

I can play with your scene, and open/close Live View without issues here:

AO+WWOS_endframe_b.c4d.zip

(384.7 KiB) Downloaded 435 times

Please, share a screenshot like this one, that shows both the c4doctane directory opened, and the entire installation path, thanks:

ciao,
Beppe

[RegSquires]

Here it is. Doesn't look like your install. Where do I get this installer from? Have to say it is one of the more confusing aspects of Octane. But I guess its also the fact that the M1 version is so bleeding edge

[RegSquires]

Here is the crash. Sorry for the poor quality but it does show I am able to open the file play with it change settings but then when I close the live viewer it crashes. Every time. Now whether this is a file specific thing, or maybe my computer, I cannot work with this. I have wasted a ton of time trying to get it to work and even though it appears to work elsewhere this is zero use to me. Again I love Octane I really do but I cannot use itr when I know it will do stuff like this to me.


https://youtu.be/YMi-QhUnjIY

[SioPio]

I just started having the same issue on Mac Ultra Studio after updating to C4D 2023.1.3 yesterday - running Octane 2022.1-[R2]. Everything was working fine before Maxon updated from 2023.1.2, but now every time I close the Octane live viewer, C4D locks up and I have to force quit. I will try to install OctaneRender-Prime-for-C4D-2022.1-RC3_OSX now to see if the same thing happens, otherwise I will see if I can go back to C4D 2023.1.2

**EDIT**
Update 1: I realized OctaneRender-Prime-for-C4D-2022.1-RC3_OSX didn't say "M1" so I just downloaded OctaneRender-Prime-for-C4D-2022.1_OSX_m1.zip and reinstalled, and so far it's not crashing. I also noticed the live viewer window now says "Live View [Studio+] 2022.1"

Update 2: Further discovering in the confusion of the many different links and places to download versions, I now currently have "OctaneRender-Prime-for-C4D-2022.1_OSX_m1.zip" installed with the c4dOctane-R2023.xlib creation date of Nov 25 2022 1:41pm, but when it was crashing I must have had "OctaneRender-Prime-for-C4D-2022.1_R2_OSX_m1.zip" installed with the c4dOctane-R2023.xlib creation date of Dec 10 2022 12:27pm. Now that I see these are indeed the differences, I will once again install the dec 10 build to see if it crashes or if it just needed a fresh install with permissions after the C4D upgrade.

Update 3: Fresh install of "OctaneRender-Prime-for-C4D-2022.1_R2_OSX_m1.zip" installed with the c4dOctane-R2023.xlib creation date of Dec 10 2022 12:27pm having to grant OS permissions has resulted in seemingly stable performance again. Live viewer window now reads "Live Viewer 2022.1-[R2]"

[SioPio]

I am using Octane X For Cinema 4D 2022.1 on an M1 Max MacBook Pro Monterey 12.6.1 and Cinema is 2023.1.3

Try reinstalling Octane after you updated C4D to 2023.1.3

That seemed to work for me (for now)

[bepeg4d]

Big thanks SioPio for the solution!
I have skipped to update C4D to 2023.1.2, and updated directly to C4D 2023.1.3, so probably this is why I was not able to reproduce the issue here

@RegSquires:
can you confirm that updating C4D to 2023.1.3 solves the issue to you too?

ciao,
Beppe

[RegSquires]

I have reinstalled Octane countless times and am running 2023.1.3. It is still not working. I tried it again on a scene that wasn't the one that was crashing. But even a new scene from scratch still crashed. Not the Live Viewer bug, but I switched Denoiser on and then it hung.

So I am really over Octane. I spent the afternoon crash free with Redshift and it just worked. I just don't know what more I can do to fix this issue

Richard