OctaneRender™ Standalone 3.00 alpha 2

[miko3d]

Fantastic job,

thanks again for all the hard work and steady progress.

[RobSteady]

abstrax, can you please check this scene?
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=51898

[abstrax]

abstrax, can you please check this scene?
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=51898

I did. It's optimized for fast rendering with the old integration kernels. The new kernels have about the same speed as in 2.24 on my system. Not much we can do about it. We continue looking into performance, but there are limitations of what we can do. We have a lot of scenes that render significantly faster with the new kernels.

[RobSteady]

Thanks for checking and sorry for not making it clear: I meant the differences in the glossy reflections (or something else; anyway, they look different; see first two images).

[abstrax]

Thanks for checking and sorry for not making it clear: I meant the differences in the glossy reflections (or something else; anyway, they look different; see first two images).

I think the differences are due to the slightly different behaviour of bump mapping. If you remove the bump maps, it should render exactly the same. Otherwise there is a bug somewhere.

[ff7darkcloud]

Hello there, I've been using this Ol' Ready Cam script for simple animation paths:
viewtopic.php?f=73&t=41365

With 3.00 it doesn't work anymore (cannot set output folder, and render button doesn't work), does anyone know how to fix it?

Keep up the good work.

[Rikk The Gaijin]

First of all, thank you for the release.
Baking was one of the features I was waiting the most, but unfortunately I already found a big problem: meshes with displacement applied render out a black texture.
For me, this is an important feature, do you think you can fix it?

Second problem I found: the AO render pass has limit of 1024, which is still very noisy. Why is that?

Problem three: I thought v3 could handle unlimited polygons meshes, but I imported a mesh with 43 million polys, and Octane closed down without warning.

Problem four: tangent normal render pass output a flat RGB 128,128,256 color image.

[smicha]

Object layer works only if the render target node is connected. Is it designed to work like this?

[smicha]

[*] Added "bump and normal mapping" option to the render passes node.

Marcus,
Am I missing something? Does it allow to render at once bump over normal? How to enable this feature? When I deactivate or active the function it's not affection the scene at all in any passes.

[bepeg4d]

[*] Added "bump and normal mapping" option to the render passes node.

Marcus,
Am I missing something? Does it allow to render at once bump over normal? How to enable this feature? When I deactivate or active the function it's not affection the scene at all in any passes.

No, it's related to the new baking function to let you bake also this channels together with beaty, diffuse, roughness, ior, transmission, refraction and reflection... if I don't forget anyone...
ciao beppe