OctaneRender® 1.024 beta 2.45 (lin/mac/win) [OBSOLETE]

[abstrax]

Looking good, thanks Marcus.

I have had the following problems so far:

The tooltips are missing for both the interface and node pins. I think others have noticed this too.

When I loaded a OCS file the render window resized on it's own and took over the display. The OCS file has a resolution size that is greater then my display resolution might have had something to do with it. I first thought that it had maximized the render window but when I clicked on the expand button it just tried to get larger. I ended up having to manually resize all the windows.

I'm having a tough time setting blackbody emission values to look right. I'm probably doing it wrong, but I have to set both the power and efficiency sliders to 100% to get a reasonable amount of light to appear. And it isn't very bright. The temp slider only appears to change the color.

I will test some more tomorrow.

Regarding the blackbody emitter: Enable the normalize option. That should help.

Cheers,
Marcus

[abstrax]

One more thing: It may also a problem with the scene size. If your scene is imported as too large, everything gets too dark.

And last but not least: If you find stuff too dark, then expose longer. You will find the according setting in the imager node.

I hope that helps,
Marcus

[grimm]

The normalize option was turned on by default unfortunately no help there. I did turn it off to test but then the light disappeared completely. Here is a screen capture, if it will help.

http://www.frostyfoot.com/grimm/images/ ... -test1.jpg

[grimm]

One more thing: It may also a problem with the scene size. If your scene is imported as too large, everything gets too dark.

And last but not least: If you find stuff too dark, then expose longer. You will find the according setting in the imager node.

I hope that helps,
Marcus

Nope, the scene is bright enough, just can't get the emission brighter as you can see from the image I posted.

[dave62]

Ok, the Linux build is up.

Happy rendering,
Marcus

nice! ->reboot and install..

thanks

[face]

One more thing: It may also a problem with the scene size. If your scene is imported as too large, everything gets too dark.

And last but not least: If you find stuff too dark, then expose longer. You will find the according setting in the imager node.

I hope that helps,
Marcus

Nope, the scene is bright enough, just can't get the emission brighter as you can see from the image I posted.

Use an other import scaling so that the emitted meshes are bigger.

Edit:
If the mesh is bigger in its measurement, then it produce more emissions and the ilumination is brighter

face

[matej]

Nicely done, with the GUI customization and all.

A step backward are this new white bars, which hide the control slider. Either make 'em gray again or make the slider triangle colored, so it will stand out more:

I would really like to see one simple thing in Octane, asap: saving macros (.ocm) with just a link (both, absolute & relative, for robustness) to texture images.

Saving with images embedded is bad, because:

* It redundantly eats up a lot of space (images are saved uncompressed)
* It's not flexible (you must recreate the .ocm, if you edit the texture image)
* For some reason the more imported .ocm's you have in your scene the slower it takes to save the scene (half a minute to save an .ocs with ~10 imported .ocm's in my case)

[roeland]

Use an other import scaling so that the emitted meshes are bigger.

Edit:
If the mesh is bigger in its measurement, then it produce more emissions and the ilumination is brighter

This has changed in beta 2.45, the power settings now control the total amount of illumination coming from an emitter, independent from its size. To get a brighter image you can export the scene in a smaller size.

[grimm]

Use an other import scaling so that the emitted meshes are bigger.

Edit:
If the mesh is bigger in its measurement, then it produce more emissions and the ilumination is brighter

face

I guess where I getting confused is that it shouldn't matter how big the emitter is, and according to Marcus and Roeland emitter strength is no longer tied to mesh size. I should be able to make a ball the size of the sun, and make it emit as bright as the sun or brighter. Or make a 1cm size cube and have it as bright as the sun too.

[dave62]

fireflies:
i made some tests comparing 2.44 and 2.45 regarding the amount of fireflies.
i switched off all mesh lights in the turntable scene. so only lit by hdri: at this point i can say: no difference between 2.44 and 2.45.
comparison with mesh lights switched on will follow..
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ies:
the new ies tex lighting feature is nice. i made some first test playing with the orientation.

i wonder if anybody would share some sources for those ies tex.
just a few: http://www.rendertextures.com/tag/ies/

edit: btw..there must be some converters out there to convert real ies files to image tex??

thanks for the linux built, seems to work great on mint10:)