OctaneRender® beta 2.43 (lin/mac/win) [OBSOLETE]

[yoyoz]

Hi Marcus,

here are the results of some tests I made:
- Octane 24.3 cuda 3.0 and cuda 3.2 builds have same behaviour (I was wrong in my guess)
- Octane 24.3 has different behaviour than 23.5

May be I'm doing something wrong, but same command line option didn't give the same results.

Test protocol:
- simple scene with blue cube
- export to octane with -n and -l flags
- octane renders blue cube
- all files saved in 'relink-pass1' folder
- change cube material to red - same name
- export to octane with -r flag
- 24.3 renders blue cube
- 23.5 renders red cube
- all files saved in 'relink-pass2' folder

I've attached all files so you can verify. Please let me know if you need more information.

BTW, many thanks for the good job so far.
Cheers,
Lionel

[abstrax]

Hi Marcus,

here are the results of some tests I made:
- Octane 24.3 cuda 3.0 and cuda 3.2 builds have same behaviour (I was wrong in my guess)
- Octane 24.3 has different behaviour than 23.5

May be I'm doing something wrong, but same command line option didn't give the same results.

Test protocol:
- simple scene with blue cube
- export to octane with -n and -l flags
- octane renders blue cube
- all files saved in 'relink-pass1' folder
- change cube material to red - same name
- export to octane with -r flag
- 24.3 renders blue cube
- 23.5 renders red cube
- all files saved in 'relink-pass2' folder

I've attached all files so you can verify. Please let me know if you need more information.

BTW, many thanks for the good job so far.
Cheers,
Lionel

Did you change the cube material to red in Blender? Well, then the 2.43 behaviour is correct - it keeps the materials as you set them up in Octane. That's how it should be and the behaviour of 2.3 v5 is incorrect.

Cheers,
Marcus

[yoyoz]

Did you change the cube material to red in Blender? Well, then the 2.43 behaviour is correct - it keeps the materials as you set them up in Octane. That's how it should be and the behaviour of 2.3 v5 is incorrect.

Cheers,
Marcus

That's pretty annoying behaviour. I was expecting that materials that are not attached to a node would be updated by the relink option while others stays untouched (or created if new materials).

Cheers,
Lionel

[abstrax]

That's pretty annoying behaviour. I was expecting that materials that are not attached to a node would be updated by the relink option while others stays untouched (or created if new materials).

Cheers,
Lionel

No, that's wanted, because a lot of people don't work with nodes at all and do everything in internal node graphs. They were forced to work with nodes in pre-beta 2.3 v5 and there has been a lot of complaining about it.

The general workflow is to do geometry in your 3D app and materials in Octane and the initial export gives you just head start, so you don't have to start from scratch with every new project.

Cheers,
Marcus

[gvnwst]

@gvnwst: I have the same issue but on linux. You have internet connection and you can ping live1.refractivesoftware.com? If yes, try to login customer area and deactivate octane. Wait 30 mins and run again. Imho some problem about the licence checking and we get wrong error message.

Thanks that fixed it for me.

[yoyoz]

No, that's wanted, because a lot of people don't work with nodes at all and do everything in internal node graphs. They were forced to work with nodes in pre-beta 2.3 v5 and there has been a lot of complaining about it.

The general workflow is to do geometry in your 3D app and materials in Octane and the initial export gives you just head start, so you don't have to start from scratch with every new project.

Cheers,
Marcus

Would it be possible you then add a new command-line option that would allow to force an update of internal node graph materials only?

Cheers,
Lionel

[abstrax]

Would it be possible you then add a new command-line option that would allow to force an update of internal node graph materials only?

Cheers,
Lionel

Yes, that's possible, but that won't happen immediately. The request is noted

Cheers,
Marcus

[yoyoz]

Yes, that's possible, but that won't happen immediately. The request is noted

Thanks Marcus!

(when you'll be playing with command line options, please add a PT/DL switch while you're at it )

[abstrax]

Well, it's happening with my competition scene, which is huge and I can't post it. When I'm finished with it, I'll create a test scene and a reproducible procedure, if I'll still experience any problems.

Cool, thanks for the help.

Marcus

[dave62]

good morning!

a very good one!! since i use 2.43 with cuda3.0 octane seems to run stable now:)
still rendering...
cuda 3.2 seems to cause problems previously.

..dont know why the materials were not linked correctly previously. maybe i was just to sleepy to do it right and messed things up. sorry!
now it works:)

with cuda3.0 i can even use higher res while pt.

once again i got emphasize that its so much fun to see how fast this renderenginge works

thx dave