OctaneRender™ for Blender 2.06 - 6.6 Win [OBSOLETE]

[Alain]

Tested a simple Scene with a Carpet (Particlesystem distributes a Carpetpatch over a Plane).
It works when I set the Emission Number to 10.

But when I set it to only (!) 100, then the hole Operationssystem gets very slow, almost frozen and it seems not to render (I did restart the Computer after >5 minuntes of waiting).

Hi Alain,
Set your carpet patch mesh type to Scatter, as in the screenshot below.

scatter.jpg

Hope this helps
Szymon

Thanks for the hint.

@JimStar
Why isn't this set automatically if an Object is used for a Particlesystem ?
The workflow at the moment makes no sence from my point of view.

Kind regards
Alain

[Phantom107]

Is it possible to import CSV files to do the scattering, so Blender is fast in the viewport and I can combine it with Phantom Scatter? I have some new features coming up and it would be awesome to be able to fully replace Octane standalone by Octane inside Blender.

This is a real shortcoming! Please look into this, I don't know how difficult it will be, but a CSV file is just a list of matrices that in the standalone, a Scatter node imports.

[resmas]

Is it possible to import CSV files to do the scattering, so Blender is fast in the viewport and I can combine it with Phantom Scatter? I have some new features coming up and it would be awesome to be able to fully replace Octane standalone by Octane inside Blender.

This is a real shortcoming! Please look into this, I don't know how difficult it will be, but a CSV file is just a list of matrices that in the standalone, a Scatter node imports.

+1

Would love to have that.

cheers
resmas

[Marten74]

If some programming genious would create a plugin that converts Cycles materials and node trees to Octane materials and node trees, I would buy it in a whiffy!

Cheers!

::mb

[Alain]

+1

I would pay 100 $ for such a convertor.

Kind regards
Alain

[Marten74]

+1

I would pay 100 $ for such a convertor.

Kind regards
Alain

I´m with you!

[ephdot]

Regarding the material converter thing, +1.

With regard to materials, I'm also wondering if it is possible to do something similar to the standalone, where we can see all of the material slots in a list for a global mesh. Sometimes, it can be so tedious to chase down all of the materials in a scene. If it was presented as a hierarchy so you could see what mesh it is as well that would be nice.

Lastly, I know I've seen it mentioned, but I can't find it - does anybody know if installing the latest standalone (2.14) will bugger the current Blender/Octane version? Or more generally put, must we keep the Blender/Server and standalone versions in sync?

[JimStar]

With regard to materials, I'm also wondering if it is possible to do something similar to the standalone, where we can see all of the material slots in a list for a global mesh. Sometimes, it can be so tedious to chase down all of the materials in a scene. If it was presented as a hierarchy so you could see what mesh it is as well that would be nice.

What is the problem with Blender outliner?..

Lastly, I know I've seen it mentioned, but I can't find it - does anybody know if installing the latest standalone (2.14) will bugger the current Blender/Octane version? Or more generally put, must we keep the Blender/Server and standalone versions in sync?

It does not matter if you have another standalone version installed locally. It does matter only if you are using network rendering - in this case you must have exactly the same version of render slaves.

[ephdot]

Jim-

Thanks for the reply.

I don't really have a problem with the outliner view in Blender. I was just imagining a view similar to how you have the Live DB view. Perhaps a tab on that display named Scene Materials that shows the materials in the scene in a layout similar to the Live DB layout, with previews and so on.

That said, I know you have bigger fish to fry. I was just floating it as a "what-if" type of suggestion.

Cheers,
-ephdot

[simdal]

Regarding the material converter thing, +1.

Thanks, simdal