w/ range of frames, random ones are filled with NOISE

Mon Mar 19, 2012 2:56 pm

I have been setting up to render a range of frames out using Backburner. Even though I am only rendering on a single GPU system right now backburner seems to allow the frames to keep rendering without a crash of 3ds max.

However I am having a serious issue still with some frames coming out with a ton of noise. Some frames are fine but some filled with noise. This is on the same render job of a range of frames with all same settings for each frame. If every frame rendering out had noise then it would make sense but half are with noise and half without so it makes no sense.

Has anyone else had this issue? If so how did you fix it? Please share...

Tue Mar 20, 2012 1:51 am

Can you show some of the renders with and without noise?

How random is the distribution of frames with noise? Does it occur more in some parts of the animation?

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Roeland

Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:57 am

roeland wrote:Can you show some of the renders with and without noise?

How random is the distribution of frames with noise? Does it occur more in some parts of the animation?

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Roeland

Probably that is plugin issue. I will try to fixe it.

Tue Mar 20, 2012 5:23 am

Roeland, cannot post the images on here since it is a confidential project. Can send them through PM if you like though.

Will try Karba's new update in the morning and post how it goes.

As of right now I think we are going to have to use Octane Standalone with OctanePowerTools to export the whole scene and camera from 3DS Max at once. We tested this process and it works very well. Is very fast to render and animation sequence once the scene is in Octane Standalone.

Thanks for all the efforts to help us debug the issues RS!

t_3 · Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:39 pm

nrygpu wrote:As of right now I think we are going to have to use Octane Standalone with OctanePowerTools to export the whole scene and camera from 3DS Max at once. We tested this process and it works very well. Is very fast to render and animation sequence once the scene is in Octane Standalone.

uuuh, that hurts!
SCNR

Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:58 pm

Im sorry... Karba's NEW update?!

is there an Update for 2.57? where??

Nildo

Tue Mar 20, 2012 1:05 pm

No, not a new official update. It was a patch that Karba wanted me to test to see if it would fix the issues I am having with the 3DS Max Octane plugin. So far the issues are not fixed.

Tue Mar 20, 2012 1:24 pm

Ahh darn..

my heart nearly went out of my chest of excitiment!

:P

Nildo

Tue Mar 20, 2012 1:31 pm

t_3 wrote:
nrygpu wrote:As of right now I think we are going to have to use Octane Standalone with OctanePowerTools to export the whole scene and camera from 3DS Max at once. We tested this process and it works very well. Is very fast to render and animation sequence once the scene is in Octane Standalone.
uuuh, that hurts!
SCNR

Yes I wish we could use the 3DS Max Octane plugin but right now it is just too buggy. I hope in the future that it will work better. With OctanePowerTools we were able to export the whole scene and render a 27 second video in 10 minutes with Octane Standalone and the PowerTools together. Would be nice if Refractive Software could team up with the OctanePowerTools to make a better solution either for 3DS Max or even just Octane Standalone.

I am not too happy that I bought 2 full licenses of Octane and the 3DS Max plugin and Refractive Software claims that the full animation features work inside Max with Octane plugin and they clearly do not. The Octane for 3DS Max plugin is extremely buggy at this point and crashed 3DS Max so much. When it does finally render a range of frames for an animation half of them come out filled with noise so it has a been a big waste of my time and money to buy the 3DS Max plugin when I should have just bought the Octane Standalone version along with OctanePowerTools to begin with.

Refractive Software should really state on there website that the 3DS Max plugin for Octane is not capable of rendering full featured animations using the 3DS Max tools. Even using backburner there are still huge problems. I hope they can fix these issues soon otherwise I have 2 licenses of 3DS Max Octane plugin that I cannot use.

t_3 · Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:27 pm

well, i know for you current project this won't be of any help, but i'm sure things will be sorted out as time progresses. it's still a beta release, means a good chance that there are problems, and that it needs time to nail them down and fix 'em. hope you still feel like it's wort the wait (and the hassle you are currently facing)...