OctaneRender® pre-Beta 2.42 (win/mac) [OBSOLETE]

[abstrax]

Just to let you know: We have uploaded the CUDA 3.2 version of OctaneRender pre-beta 2.42 for Mac. You will need to install CUDA toolkit 3.2.17 and the CUDA driver 3.2.17 to run it. The CUDA 3.0 version will follow tomorrow.

I hope everything works fine.

Happy rendering,
Marcus

[face]

Hi,

I saw the following in the release notes:

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- Material relinking and emitter relinking from plugins bug is fixed.

Does it mean there's a MTL directive that will make Octane import a material as an emitter?

Thanks,
Lionel

That means, that you don´t need the help of material macros.

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[dave62]

pls just compile some linux64 build

[matej]

pls just compile some linux64 build

Yes, please. Preferably CUDA 3.0 first, just to be on the safe side. The competition clock is ticking faster...

[irene]

Sorry if I mislead you guys
The dll is already with octane exe inside the zip. check it!
You don't have to actually copy it, I wanted to say that it must go there, and actually is there.
So you can download both zips from first page in this post, unzip them in different folders and u are ready to go with any of both versions.
Sorry again
BTW I am working with the 266.58 drivers from the nvidia web page. The normal drivers.

i stopped yesterday after downloading 266.58_desktop_winxp_32bit_international_whql from nvidia.
do i understand it right: once i have updated the driver to 266.58 i will be able to use Octane 2.42 as well as older versions with it?
any known issues with that driver and XP any of you know of?
please advise. thank you for your help!

[face]

do i understand it right: once i have updated the driver to 266.58 i will be able to use Octane 2.42 as well as older versions with it?

Thats right, you can run Octane with cuda3.0 and cuda3.2 because each version uses his own version which is included in the zipfile.
Octane 2.2 work as well with it...

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[bepeg4d]

Just to let you know: We have uploaded the CUDA 3.2 version of OctaneRender pre-beta 2.42 for Mac. You will need to install CUDA toolkit 3.2.17 and the CUDA driver 3.2.17 to run it. The CUDA 3.0 version will follow tomorrow.

I hope everything works fine.

Happy rendering,
Marcus

hi marcus,
first of all thanks for the mac version
i've installed the 2.42 mac with cuda 3.2.17 under osx 10.6.6 and all works smoothly exept for two things:
1) the 1.23v5 is no more usable on my system, it open and load any ocs file but, when i hit the mash node for starting the render, the application immediately close
2) there is a little reduction in speed with my GTX 285 with the benchmark scene, see the attached files.
edit: i forgot to disabling the alphashadows parameter, i add another screenshot
ciao beppe

[irene]

Do you mean this?
In some occasions, have not found out yet, which ones, darkened polygons show on object, no matter whether the material is smoothed or not.
it is still there in 2.42.

Am sure exactly but my guess is the problem is due to the rendering algorithm.

ycarry mentions the terminator problem on page 9 of this thread.

just started rendering several simple planes in version 2.42. CUDA 3.0.
for some reason they display circle artefacts, same as other objects sometimes display triangular artefacts.
went back to version 2.3 v. 5 to compare, whether it was the same: it was.
it's visible in daylight and texture rendering, pathtracing and directlighting. it is least visible with texture + pathtracing, but still there.

what is this? is it avoidable? any experiences?

these images are from 2.3 v. 5 to begin with and just to show what i mean. the problem is there with 2.42 CUDA 3.0 as well:

(circles on the frontal plane, triangles on the wavy plane at the left side. the circles move when i pan the camera.)

images are:
uv view in modeling program to show the polygons of the plane.
texture rendering with pathtracing.
daylight 1 and daylight 2 with different camera angles with pathtracing.

[irene]

Thats right, you can run Octane with cuda3.0 and cuda3.2 because each version uses his own version which is included in the zipfile.
Octane 2.2 work as well with it...

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thank you, face!

[matej]

@Irene,

Your scale is off, probably too big. Use exporters & check scale factor on export