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

[yoyoz]

Radiance, Markus,

you could make a quick change that won't affect the security of your protection system. At the moment when Octane fails to connect to the server, it prompts the user for his credentials, which affects batch renders. You just need to have Octane try to reconnect with existing credentials without prompting the user, only notifying him. This way the render would keep going on once the link is back without manual action.

Lionel

[Jaberwocky]

YoYouz


That sounds like a good plan.

Refractive

I was not suggesting that Refractive ditch the online checks,just that it cut a little slack on the checks for those with intermittent internet connections.

When you had a DDOS attack the other day i was half way through a single render frame.Not an animation.Octane Froze halfway through that single frame.It did not complete the frame.

You just need to loosen the checking system a bit,that is all.

[abstrax]

Radiance, Markus,

you could make a quick change that won't affect the security of your protection system. At the moment when Octane fails to connect to the server, it prompts the user for his credentials, which affects batch renders. You just need to have Octane try to reconnect with existing credentials without prompting the user, only notifying him. This way the render would keep going on once the link is back without manual action.

Lionel

Something like that we are implementing right now. It will be available (plus some more little goodies and stability fixes) with the next release which is planned to come out very soon. (And yes, Linux users, we haven't forgotten you - we are working on the Linux build, too).

Cheers,
Marcus

[abstrax]

YoYouz


That sounds like a good plan.

Refractive

I was not suggesting that Refractive ditch the online checks,just that it cut a little slack on the checks for those with intermittent internet connections.

When you had a DDOS attack the other day i was half way through a single render frame.Not an animation.Octane Froze halfway through that single frame.It did not complete the frame.

You just need to loosen the checking system a bit,that is all.

This is what I meant with making things more reliable.

Could you please elaborate this a bit further? Which version did you use? What exactly happened? Did you render a frame and during rendering, Octane crashed/stopped/froze? Or did it crash/stop/freeze while you were working on it (i.e. changing nodes and stuff)?

Thanks,
Marcus

[Jaberwocky]

Abstrax

No, the frame in question was cooking.I am running this new windows X64 version with the latest WHQL Nvidia driver.It was about 15 mins into the cook when it just stopped working.

I then of course thought it was my machine and tried to restart.Of course that is when i discovered that although my internet connection was ok (I'm running 10MB/sec broadband)

Octane would not connect for sometime.Got back onto the message board a little later to discover you had a DDOS attack.

[abstrax]

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No, the frame in question was cooking.I am running this new windows X64 version with the latest WHQL Nvidia driver.It was about 15 mins into the cook when it just stopped working.
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Ok thanks for the feedback. Which version of Octane did you use?

Marcus

[Jaberwocky]

This current one. Pre-Beta 2.42

[dave62]

quoted: "* We are developing a new secure solution to enable mobile use of OctaneRender® v1.0+, without the requirement of an internet connection."

hope this announcement out of the octane live faq, point five: http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... =24&t=4069 is still vailid??
this announcement changed a lot in my previous decisions about using octane, since there where octane live.

theres is no need for hurry atm but pls dont forget about that promis..

thx and keep on

[matej]

When a different exporting system will be implemented, that won't require re-opening Octane for every frame (as was my understanding), this problem with rendering interruptions will go away (or shrink to a minimum), right?

Than it's better that the dev team spends time on that, rather than new methods of protection.

[irene]

just wanted to tell you this: i'm VERY happy with 2.42 CUDA 3.2!
(working on windows XP 32 with GTX 460 2 GB)

thank you very much team for developing this great software!
thank you very much friends at the forum for your help so far!

in order to contribute at least a small small thing, might even have been mentioned before...
> the Octane logo on the windows bar looks a bit blurred.