OctaneRender™ Standalone 1.53.1

[blobbybarack]

Since 1.53 any alembic scene can't be render with LUA Render Imported Animation.
I've double check those files in 1.5 and 1.5.1 without problem.

When i hit "Start Render" Octane return me this error :
[string "-- General animation rendering, this just tak..."]:552:C++ exception

[merid888]

thank you for new versión octanerender team !!!

[kavorka]

Since 1.53 any alembic scene can't be render with LUA Render Imported Animation.
I've double check those files in 1.5 and 1.5.1 without problem.

When i hit "Start Render" Octane return me this error :
[string "-- General animation rendering, this just tak..."]:552:C++ exception

I get the same error.
Anyone know how to fix this?
But mine says 522, not 552

[ROUBAL]

I confirm : rendering animation with alembic file in Octane 1.53 gives the error message below.

I saved the ocs scene and opened it in 1.52 : it renders the animation correctly.

[stratified]

I confirm : rendering animation with alembic file in Octane 1.53 gives the error message below.

I saved the ocs scene and opened it in 1.52 : it renders the animation correctly.

Hi,

It seems that the 3 scripts shipped with 1.53 are broken (animation, daylight & turntable). We'll have a look at it.

cheers,
Thomas

[stratified]

Thanks for the update.

One thing that is bothering me: if I want to save some material (node graph) the textures are either saved into the .orbx or copied over in some folder. This is in contrast to the .ocm where I could choose if I want to just link paths to image files or embed them. Could we have this functionality for .orbx too?

I have a central repository for textures and I don't want these files to be copied all over the place / each material for each project having it's own copy of textures, because that makes editing textures (and therefore materials) impossible.

hi Matej,

We explicitly choose to not embed the images in the .ocm files anymore because it gave us too much headaches. The .orbx format is a container that contains the xml and the images. The whole point of this exercise was to embed assets in a saner way

If you want to use your central repository you have to use plain .ocs files. When using .ocs, you can keep your files in the original location. If they are somehow copied over then there's a bug.

BTW: in 2.0 there's the local DB feature which makes managing a local repository a lot easier.

cheers,
Thomas

[abstrax]

Shouldn't generator textures, when plugged into a scattering pin of the Scattering node, modulate density of the fog volume? Because apparently they don't do anything.

In the below example having the fractal tex. plugged in, is the same as having 1.0 value

No, that's not possible anymore. To allow useful rendering of fog and intersecting volumes of specular materials, we had to drop the ability to modulate medium properties inside volumes with textures. It wasn't working too well anyway. The change was done somewhere between 1.10 and 1.20.

[abstrax]

I confirm : rendering animation with alembic file in Octane 1.53 gives the error message below.

I saved the ocs scene and opened it in 1.52 : it renders the animation correctly.

We will fix it tomorrow and will update the binaries. Sorry about that.

[ROUBAL]

OK, Thank you Marcus !

[Tugpsx]

Thanks for the update