OctaneRender® 2024.1 Beta 1

[ricky_otoy]

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AuJBOGWzbPfe-r0jB8LsL2n_zeY_tA?e=jUYiaT

Hi noldo, the gizmo is working in both win and macOS. Are you first selecting the geo node or placement with the move gizmo active? (sorry for the silly question)

[noldo]

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AuJBOGWzbPfe-r0jB8LsL2n_zeY_tA?e=jUYiaT

Hi noldo, the gizmo is working in both win and macOS. Are you first selecting the geo node or placement with the move gizmo active? (sorry for the silly question)

Yes, it's active, but don't work...
I try to update video driver.

[noldo]

I tried the drivers game and studio, with both I don't see the gizmo. It's not a big deal, I work without it.

[john_otoy]

I tried the drivers game and studio, with both I don't see the gizmo. It's not a big deal, I work without it.

Hi noldo, I managed to reproduce the issue with your scene. It might have something to do with the missing render target.

If you right click the geometry group > render, the move gizmo doesn't work for any mesh or placement nodes.

We'll look into it. Thanks for the report.

[noldo]

Bug?
When i set a texture to the plane with "Sample pos. to UV" for matching the background, the object in the scene become semitrasparent...
I attach the scene and image sample.

[abstrax]

Bug?
When i set a texture to the plane with "Sample pos. to UV" for matching the background, the object in the scene become semitrasparent...
I attach the scene and image sample.

This projection uses the sample position in image space to calculate the UV coordinate, it's not doing an inverse transformation of a hit point into image space. For the latter you would have to use the perspective projection.

As a result, "Sample pos. to UV" should not be used for regular path tracing or it will give you results like you observed, because when a path bounces around in the scene it will always use the same UV coordinate which only depends on the pixel position of that path.

This projection was mostly added for the global texture AOVs.

[noldo]

Bug?
When i set a texture to the plane with "Sample pos. to UV" for matching the background, the object in the scene become semitrasparent...
I attach the scene and image sample.

This projection uses the sample position in image space to calculate the UV coordinate, it's not doing an inverse transformation of a hit point into image space. For the latter you would have to use the perspective projection.

As a result, "Sample pos. to UV" should not be used for regular path tracing or it will give you results like you observed, because when a path bounces around in the scene it will always use the same UV coordinate which only depends on the pixel position of that path.

This projection was mostly added for the global texture AOVs.

Thanks

[DamjanMX_1]

I am curious at the same thing. Can we have someone officially comment on this?

Thanks

Is this feature locked? We’re halfway through the year and still none of the features that were supposed to come in 2023 aren’t even in 2024?

Why is it that every year there is a flashy GTC presentation which promises features and every year without fail none of them make it into a release? Still waiting on rest position support for Houdini for multiple years.

Where are all these?

Also in our plans:
Volumetric user data
Additive materials
Rest position input
Spectral fabric material
Motion blur for HDRI environments
Motion blur for texture displacement
Adaptive subdivision for vertex displacement
New parametric spline and curve primitives
UVW packing for compiled DCC primitives (instead of UV). This can be used by plugins to "pin" procedural textures to deformed textures.
Multi-stream: headless and live linked render across DCCs.
Multi-render: swap to any other engine in seconds.
Multi-engine: for example the full C4D application (with plugins) in Octane core, and also World Creator
Photon tracing / irradiance caching

[SSmolak]

It looks like Octane is little exhausted last months. We had fast development last years but for now we have only beta version of 2024 which is different from advertisement.
Unreal will have the same quality within short time...

[pxlntwrk]