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It seems to be rendering OK for me (although you didn't provide the texture map's so I cannot be 100% certain). Which version (ie. release number) of the Octane plugin are you using please?

Thanks

Paul

my bad. i was really busy so sent in a rush and forgot textures.

however i think i've found the issue.

if you create a mesh and convert to DM then everything works OK:

1. create a mesh (a plane should do)
2. assign a material (a textured material makes the issue clearer but i think any material will do)
3. select the mesh and make it a Deferred Mesh
4. render - the mesh renders OK

however if you import a Presets and then convert to DM textures and mapping seem to not be respected:

1. create a mesh (a plane should do)
2. assign a material (a textured material makes the issue clearer but i think any material will do)
3. save the mesh as a preset
4. open a new scene and load the preset you just made - it should render exactly the same as before
5. select the mesh and make it a Deferred Mesh
6. render - textures are missing

am i missing something or does Octane not support replicated deferred meshes?

1. create a mesh (a plane should do)
2. assign a material (a textured material makes the issue clearer but i think any material will do)
3. save the mesh as a preset
4. open a new scene and load the preset you just made - it should render exactly the same as before
5. select the mesh and make it a Deferred Mesh
6. render - textures are missing

Hi

I think this is happening because there are multiple layers of masks in the Shader Tree for the Deferred Mesh, and the plugin will only handle a single layer. If you change the top layer (the .lxl material mask) to Polygon Tag "All" it seems to resolve the issue. You can also turn on the Kernel->Settings->Render Cache it resolves the problem (although there are issues with the Render Cache you should be careful of).

Thanks

Paul

thanks Paul but that's not the case. if i change to polygon tag "All" the meshes appear but the materials are not respected.

if you follow the simple procedure in my earlier post you will note that this is only an issue if you try to create a DM from a mesh that was previously a Preset.

however all this is likely irrelevant because unless i'm missing somethjing it looks like Deferred Meshes cannot be replicated. can you pls confirm?

however all this is likely irrelevant because unless i'm missing somethjing it looks like Deferred Meshes cannot be replicated. can you pls confirm?

I can confirm this - only normal Modo "Mesh" items can be replicated in the Octane plugin.

Paul

face_off wrote:I can confirm this - only normal Modo "Mesh" items can be replicated in the Octane plugin.
Paul

thanks for confirming. that's a shame and it makes the discussion above redundant for me.

is that something that can be added or is it not possible at this time?

is that something that can be added or is it not possible at this time?

I think there are a lot of other Octane 2020.1 and 2020.2 features that users would be wanting me to add for something like this, so I don't think it's something I could look at in the near term. I /think/ you can scatter/replicate an Octane ORBX proxy, so you could save the Deferred Mesh to ORBX and use it as an Octane Proxy to achieve what you are looking for.

Paul

face_off wrote:I think there are a lot of other Octane 2020.1 and 2020.2 features that users would be wanting me to add for something like this, so I don't think it's something I could look at in the near term. I /think/ you can scatter/replicate an Octane ORBX proxy, so you could save the Deferred Mesh to ORBX and use it as an Octane Proxy to achieve what you are looking for.

this is pretty much what i do but from a workflow POV it's not pretty or efficient, but i get that you need to prioritise features.

a simple example though - say i need to populate a park with different plants and trees. i can replicate ORBXs, which works very well, but the problem is i can't see where the meshes are placed in OpenGL, so it makes it tricky to populate as needed. i can't use 'real' mesh plants because they slow everything down and increase scene size unnecessarily. so the only option is to use Deferred meshes which work well in that they keep the scene light, but they're not rendered by Octane, so i need to duplicate all replicators and duplicate an ORBX for each DM and so on and basically have 2 sets of replicators, one for MODO and one for Octane.

if Octane could render replicated deferred meshes this would be a very simple process.

or even if we could have the Octane Proxy tab on Deferred meshes (like we do with regular meshes)? that would help a lot as we could then use deferred meshes to place everything and simply point Octane to the required ORBX. would save a lot of time and effort.

Hi Dingbat,

i think the solution to your problem is to create a lowpoly Version of your highres Mesh (or a simple cube with the right dimensions) to use them in the Meshlayer you use as a proxy. So you can see your lowres Meshes in the viewport, but Octane will pick up your prepared Orbx for rendering.