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

[mib2berlin]

Hi, i have some stability problems on linux.
Most of the times octane freeze on closing with more complex scenes.
No problems during the render process.
GPU and system temperatures are normal (GPU 60°).

[abstrax]

Hi, i have some stability problems on linux.
Most of the times octane freeze on closing with more complex scenes.
No problems during the render process.
GPU and system temperatures are normal (GPU 60°).

Is this a new problem in beta 2.45 or did you have these problems with beta 2.44, too?

Cheers,
Marcus

[abstrax]

yu've made a wonderfull job, with this new release it's very convincing,
the new lights parameters are intuitive, the interface is enjoyable.
with this one i can build efficient indoor spot light without difficulties, a real pleasure !

1. the outliner is very handy, especially for selecting material, it would be great if the outliner stop to automatically collapse.

2. i would be nice to have a way to desactivate the preview material ball , i'm previewing directly on the mesh render ! and i always have to reselect the obj... each time i click on a material or a macro for selecting this last !
i know i can use the material pick up, but it is slower than clicking directly on node, especially if you have to right click for finding
a material behind another one, or simply for selecting something that don't appear on the render window, as a light or others....

finally ! thank yu for all your hard work!

vinz.

Hi Vinz,

Regarding 1: Yes, we will se what we can do about it in the future. It might take a moment, as it might require some more changes than you would expect.

Regarding 2: You can disable the preview for textures/materials via the toggle icons in the icon bar of the node graph editor.

Cheers,
Marcus

[abstrax]

1. If you rotate camera that way so you looking thru it from top down to the floor, then pan operation moves camera in world vertical(not sure if it's Z or Y) axis instead of screen space X-Y axes.

2. if you loaded some mesh, tweaked it, and then deleted - you still can see it in viewport, and it still consumes GPU resources.

3. it would be nice if users could assign those most used operations (Pick material in viewport, pick AF point, pick camera interest point) to some mouse/keyboard shortcuts just like you made it with camera controls.
For example i would really love to use "ctrl-left click" for material picking and "shift-middle-click" for AF point.

4. right alt doesn't works when im trying to orbit my camera with "alt-left-click"

5. would be nice to have "1:1" button on viewport toolbar (reset viewport scale and center) - sometimes im scaling viewport and cannot return to it's original size.

6. it seems that tooltips on viewport toolbar buttons is missed.

Hi Joss,

Regarding 1: Yes viewport navigation needs a rework, but there is no quick fix. -> I can't say when it will be done.

Regarding 2: These problems will hopefully go away with 2.5 and the reworked CUDA framework.

Regarding 3: It's noted.

Regarding 4: I will have a look.

Regarding 5: Viewport zoom should always be a multiple of 2, i.e. 8x, 4x, 2x, 1x, 0.5x, 0.25x, 0.125x . Isn't it like that?

Regarding 6: Yes, that has been reported before and will be fixed with the next release.

Cheers,
Marcus

[matej]

Regarding 1: Yes viewport navigation needs a rework, but there is no quick fix. -> I can't say when it will be done

Glad that this will be redone at some point. Camera navigation is the only thing that I really hate in Octane.

I also strongly support the 3rd point on Joss list - keyboard shortcuts for often used operations instead of mouse toggle-clicks

[mib2berlin]

Hi abstrax, i try this and another scene in 2.44 and it closes without freezing.
This happen in 2.45 after 10 to 15 minutes rendertime.

Cheers, mib

[iljubicic]

I dont understand. Which one is watt?

[Andz]

HDRI image doesn't work for me on 2.45 RC cuda 3.0 Linux

I get the "File Format Error", but the image loads fine on 2.44

[vinz]

Hi Vinz,

Regarding 1: Yes, we will se what we can do about it in the future. It might take a moment, as it might require some more changes than you would expect.

Regarding 2: You can disable the preview for textures/materials via the toggle icons in the icon bar of the node graph editor.

Cheers,
Marcus

great !!!

I dont understand. Which one is watt?

i quote abstrax : "Power is the total light energy (in Watt) that is emitted from the full surface this material is assigned ..."

[SamCameron]

Please don't forget the clip textures feature? I requested this feature in almost every release, and I'm not the only one.