Serious help for serious newbie please!

[chino87]

So I'm a rhino user and for now I've been using maxwell as a renderer, now, I don't exactly run on a lambo like machine but I managed to get my hands on an Nvidea geForce GT9500 video card, therefore I'm really excited on the idea of actually using CUDA (that's pretty much why we all bought such Video cards isn't it). despite the fact of my excitement i just can't manage to work or play with a single scene. I'm sure that I'm not doing everything right, but since there isn't no beginners tutorial, I have to ask it all here.

1. How do I get to import multi-object meshes? as I watch the videos posted, you have a couple of objects to which you can assign different materials to, I just get a single object, regardless of how I export the OBJ, therefore no diferent materials, everything gets "welded" together.

2. I just can't seem to change the environment. As I try to change the Environment texture image, if I select any image, the program simply shuts down, no warning no nothing.

3. this is just a request, Could somebody please make some sort of abolutely beginners video tutorial?? I think that would help a lot with the whole node editor way of working.

By the way, I'm using the demo release on windows (I just couldn't make it run on ubuntu, but that's a whole diferent topic).

Thank you very much everyone

[radiance]

check this tutorial video, it explains everything: http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... ?f=7&t=734

Radiance

[andrian]

Refer to this checklist as well: http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... ?f=9&t=824
As for the OBJ , try add different materials to your scene objects before exporting.

[Marc Tellier]

Hi chino87,

I think you cannot have multiple meshes nodes at the same time at this point.

You have to merge your scene in a polygonal software prior to render it (Maybe Rhino can do this?).

Also check your scale, 1 unit in Octane =1 meter

Marc

[chino87]

Hi guys, well thanks for the quick response, now
andrian:
I took a look at the checklist and I found that I have the latest driver 197.13, looked everywhere i could think of but couldn't find the 190.38 any Idea on how to get that driver?
I tried the different materials option, but there was no change

Marc:
well rhino does export the scene as a polygonal mesh, the problem is exactly that it sort of merges everything as 1 mesh object, instead of treating it as different objects.

Radiance:
Thanks for the link, I saw the video and it's pretty cleara now, my only problem is, I think, the driver and the export method, because in the video it just states how to importnew geometry but as I said, the different objects are already there as "node ports".

thank you very much guys and I'll keep trying to test this amazing piece of software

Cristobal.

[andrian]

Here's the link with simple and fast google search : http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_190.38_whql.html
For OBJ issue look here : http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... f=21&t=362

hope this helps

[Marc Tellier]

Hi Cristobal,

There's a post about exporting obj from rhino:
http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... 6932#p6932

You probably know this but you have to assign different materials to your objects in rhino to be able to change their definitions in Octane.

Maybe it's an export setting that doesn't write materials definitions...

Marc

[chino87]

o.k, sorry for the delay but I just didn't even had the time to test the solutions, but after doing that I have to report, that I finally got to export multiple objects as i wanted using a plugin that was refered to in marc's link, it's wierd but If I assign different materials in rhino, octane will merge them together I downloaded the nvidia driver but as I tried to install it, it happende to be for Windows Xp o I just couldn't install it. I guess I'll hope that it soon will work on newer drivers. but thank you very much guys! you really rock!

Cristobal