OctaneRender™ for LightWave™ 1.5 beta - build 1.36.0 RC1

[juanjgon]

Is it a bug that your fog scene no longer works?

Here it works fine. What's your problem with that scene?

-Juanjo

[juanjgon]

Quick question. Can you give me any indication how the new parameter i the dirt node works. I can tweak it an get results, but just looking to understand what it's doing.

I am not sure how it works. I know that this parameter should be used to avoid artifacts on roughly tesselated meshes, but really I don't have a sample scene that show this issue.

-Juanjo

[juanjgon]

Got a slight niggle with HDRS - when I use light paint, the 'reflect' mode acts like the 'rim' mode (the light appears behind the object.

Can you duplicate that?

True, I have found the problem. Currently to work with HDRLS and Octane you need to have at least one viewport in Layout set to "Shaded Solid" or "Textured Shaded Solid". If you have all your viewports in "Wireframe" mode, Layout doesn't have the objects normals computed and the picking algorithm fails.

So the workaround is easy, in your scene switch the display mode of the viewport to "Shaded Solid" for example and done.

I am going to try to fix this problem, if possible. Thanks for report it.

-Juanjo

[funk]

I have tested the "export alembic" feature and it seems to be creating an invalid file. I can't load it back in to LW or modo. The "export ocs" feature works fine.

[UnCommonGrafx]

Is it a bug that your fog scene no longer works?

Here it works fine. What's your problem with that scene?

-Juanjo

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I'll download the file again but none of the scenes I had setup to use this work.

I will go back through things to check but this what I get:

Just to add, since the betas, I have lost this functionality.

[juanjgon]

I have tested the "export alembic" feature and it seems to be creating an invalid file. I can't load it back in to LW or modo. The "export ocs" feature works fine.

And in Standalone? ... I only test this feature loading an alembic file in Standalone and works fine. Not sure about how it works with other packages.

-Juanjo

[juanjgon]

Just to add, since the betas, I have lost this functionality.

Are you sure that you have the last Octane.dll and Octane.dat files inside your LW/bin folder? ... here all works fine. Anybody else have this problem?

-Juanjo

[funk]

I have tested the "export alembic" feature and it seems to be creating an invalid file. I can't load it back in to LW or modo. The "export ocs" feature works fine.

And in Standalone? ... I only test this feature loading an alembic file in Standalone and works fine. Not sure about how it works with other packages.

-Juanjo

I just tried loading the alembic file into the standalone and it works. It would be great if the alembic file worked in other applications too, since we already have direct .ocs export for the standalone.

[funk]

As always, thanks for the update.

Is it a bug that your fog scene no longer works?

I just wanted to confirm that the fog scene is working fine for me. I hope you sort it out.

[UnCommonGrafx]

Thanks Funk, Juanjo,
One asks to make sure all is right. I have something amiss apparently.

I shall endeavor to find the problem.
Thanks for the info.