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

[ROUBAL]

Hi, I have noticed something weird about Normal maps. I write it here, but I don't really know if it was the same in previous versions, and even if it is due to Octane. It can come from CrazyBump, the software I use to create Normal maps (I have to check in Blender) :

When, I create a seamless diffuse texture, it looks seemless in Octane. But when I apply a Normal map created from my diffuse texture, the Normal map doesn't appear perfectly seemless (it is not a scale parameter error) and shows a fringe. The Normal map has to be treated again to be made seemless.

[OctaneFX]

Thanks for this nice Beta 2.42 release.
Can you tell me what ''premultiplied_alpha'' is for and how to use it ? (in the Preview imager of the Node Inspector).

[abstrax]

not certain if is just 2.42 cuda 3.2 (and 2.41 I think too), but just in case.
It happens that if you create a difuse with blackbody emmitter and env is texture all is fine, but if then you change to daylight, and after that change back to texture it all goes peanuts, no control on blackbody power, and the light shoots sky rocket. It maight something to do with this too http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... =23&t=5131

Hmm, I couldn't reproduce this problem. Could you please give step-by-step instructions how we can reproduce the problem?

Thanks,
Marcus

[abstrax]

Thanks for this nice Beta 2.42 release.
Can you tell me what ''premultiplied_alpha'' is for and how to use it ? (in the Preview imager of the Node Inspector).

If you enable it, the color is stored "pre-multiplied" with the alpha value. Some compositing tools require RGBA images to be pre-multiplied, to allow effects like pure additive emission (like glowing gas without absorption) which can be stored only in that format. Gimp for example doesn't, but After Effects does (as far as I know).

Cheers,
Marcus

[kubo]

not certain if is just 2.42 cuda 3.2 (and 2.41 I think too), but just in case.
It happens that if you create a difuse with blackbody emmitter and env is texture all is fine, but if then you change to daylight, and after that change back to texture it all goes peanuts, no control on blackbody power, and the light shoots sky rocket. It maight something to do with this too http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... =23&t=5131

Hmm, I couldn't reproduce this problem. Could you please give step-by-step instructions how we can reproduce the problem?

Thanks,
Marcus

I can't reproduce it out of the box either, it has either something to do with the scene (totally different one from the car one I send you) or I might need more sleep, either way I'll do more test later.

[SamCameron]

Please, add clip texture feature, is really important.