OctaneRender® 1.025 beta2.58b test release [Obsolete]

[PeterCGS]

Copy your entire Octane project folder from time to time, so you have backup revisions off your scene. I learned to do that the hard way when I was in a similar situation. Its so easy to do some stupid corrections, and hit yes on autosave when you close down octane, so I made a daily backup on my progress, not to accidentaly get a scene missing all materials.

[roeland]

It looks like all the materials are saved properly, but some other data about the project is missing. Did you notice anything unusual before you saved this file?

Here is something you can try:

• First create a new scene, and save it.
• Open your newly created OCS file and your broken OCS file in a text editor.
• In both files, find the first occurrence of the text "<name>Preview Configuration</name>". It looks roughly like this. (note the second occurrence a few lines below).

  <name>Unnamed Project</name>
  <currentnewnodeid>29</currentnewnodeid>
  <currentnewnodepinconnectionid>29</currentnewnodepinconnectionid>
  <nodes>
  <Node>
  <name>Preview Configuration</name>
  <typename>macro</typename>
  <id>2</id>
  <position>0.1 0.1</position>
  <inputnodepins>
  </inputnodepins>
  <childgraph>
  <NodeGraph>
  <name>Preview Configuration</name>
  <currentnewnodeid>21</currentnewnodeid>
  <currentnewnodepinconnectionid>20</currentnewnodepinconnectionid>
  

• In the broken file, select everything after this line and copy to clipboard.
• In the new file, delete everything after this line and then paste.
• Save the new file and try loading it into Octane.

You can also copy the embedded textures from the broken file to the new file (the part in the beginning from <embeddedimages> to </embeddedimages>) if you can't find the textures anymore. This will be much easier if you can disable line wrapping in your text editor. (The default Notepad text editor in Windows seems to react badly on big files.)

I tried this here and it seems to load fine. We will try to make Octane fill in some information if it is missing.

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Roeland

[Elvissuperstar007]

falloff will appear in version 26 ?
silk materials are needed

[steveps3]

2.58c fixes my crashing .OCS. Pity I spent the whole of yesterday recreating it. Hopefully my second attempt will be better than the first. I am not that good at creating materials so the practice would have done me good.