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astrofalcon wrote: Thank you, yeah I'm aware of the main releases page but Matt and Dave were talking about an official "Beta 2" that was up and I didn't know where I can get this "Beta 2" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlezbBmciyM

Ah, I see. I think he's talking about the core Render app, not the C4D plugin. As of now, I don't think there is any publicly available Octane 2024 Beta C4D plugin build, just the Alpha4 from April. There is usually a lag of a few days between the Octane Render releases and the various plugin releases as the devs work out the particular kinks for their host program. Even then, there may not be plugin release for every core Render Alpha/Beta release. Sometimes it's just not worth the individual plugin developers jumping on every development release until it's reasonably stable in the core app.

The Beta 2 for Octane Render is here:
viewforum.php?f=33

I don't know if Ahmet plans on a C4D plugin compile for this particular Beta version. With everything on his plate, I wouldn't hold it against him to just wait until the Release Candidates start rolling out.

frankmci wrote:

astrofalcon wrote: Thank you, yeah I'm aware of the main releases page but Matt and Dave were talking about an official "Beta 2" that was up and I didn't know where I can get this "Beta 2" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlezbBmciyM

Ah, I see. I think he's talking about the core Render app, not the C4D plugin. As of now, I don't think there is any publicly available Octane 2024 Beta C4D plugin build, just the Alpha4 from April. There is usually a lag of a few days between the Octane Render releases and the various plugin releases as the devs work out the particular kinks for their host program. Even then, there may not be plugin release for every core Render Alpha/Beta release. Sometimes it's just not worth the individual plugin developers jumping on every development release until it's reasonably stable in the core app.

The Beta 2 for Octane Render is here:
viewforum.php?f=33

I don't know if Ahmet plans on a C4D plugin compile for this particular Beta version. With everything on his plate, I wouldn't hold it against him to just wait until the Release Candidates start rolling out.

We are in some kind of update/transition stage on plugin side. Not moving fast lately, Beta_2 or 3 will be here as we've prepared it.

aoktar wrote:Beta_2 is out for now! Please find it in first page!

Thank you aoktar! So far so good on my end. Feeling nice an snappy in a current project I'm working on.

Still highly unstable. The same thing as always. 2-3 seconds lag after entering something in text box field or check/uncheck parameter. Moving camera during this lag cause hard freeze. Only using sliders it works fine. I tried the same scene in 2024 Standalone version and here everything is ok. I'm going back to 2023.

SSmolak wrote:Still highly unstable. The same thing as always. 2-3 seconds lag after entering something in text box field or check/uncheck parameter. Moving camera during this lag cause hard freeze. Only using sliders it works fine. I tried the same scene in 2024 Standalone version and here everything is ok. I'm going back to 2023.

Disable material previews for testing. SA is not running with preview kernels.

aoktar wrote: Disable material previews for testing. SA is not running with preview kernels.

Thank you for tip ! It looks like it works fine after that

EDIT : Unfortunately it can still sometimes randomly freeze.

Is the Analytical Light count going to be raised to more than 8 in one of these releases.

1. Complex Render scene Render Freezes (no Progress) with all "Lighting based Chn/modes": DL, PMC, PT, Photons with scenes of higher LOD, detail above 2GB VRAM usage.
Sometimes stucks at 65, never reaching 90 steps (of 4000). No Render is completed. (Same Scenes in R 2023 run fluidly).

Mat ID and Wire Chn do render the complex scenes.
Low Poly scenes up to 1,2 GB Vram do render, also.


2. Superslow Sync within hybrid environments/Cross platform rendering: Mac Master and PCs Slave do connect but do not render even simple scene cooperatively in time (10min sync time is far too long).

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Mac Studio M2 Ultra, Sonoma 14.5, C4d R25, 2024.1 Beta2
several PCs, Win 10, each 3x Nvidia 4090, fitting Beta node (node green on idle, and orange on duty)
(10gb Lan Connection, all at one switch)

Please Update. THx.

Additional Info to 1): Stuck problem occurs in Live Viewer (Full Screen Resolution 4k), batched Renderings in C4D Picture Viewer Renderings with Octane seems to run.