OctaneRender® for 3ds max® v2.10

[coilbook]

I thought static noise was better I guess it is worse?
Can we have an option non static and the one mental ray and vray have or the way pixar renders - clear image for cg cartoons? What do they have static or non static? I just dont want my highlights to move chaotically because cg cartoons don't do that were rendered with CPU

[oguzbir]

Karba hi,

About the hair rendering problems
I sent you a mail and scene files over wetransfer.
I hope you can have a look when you have time.
Please let me know what you think from here or over mail.

Thanks.
Oguz

[solidworkattack]

speed iprovement is really nice, for my demoscene about 20%.

The problem I got with 2.1 is that as soon as I start rendering in the liveviewer it seems so switch colors for the first ~500 samples..really weird. It looks like it's switching HDRIs or lightsources. I don't know where it comes from but it just happens in DirectLighting mode.. I've checked several different HDRIs and shaders but that doesn't fix it. Any suggestions?

[mykola1985]

Hi Karba, just wanted to say that i have done a small speed test for octane 2.1 3ds max plugin VS Octane Standalone 2.11.

scene 1

octane MAX plugin 1.33 min
Octane standalone 1.19 min

scene 2

octane MAX plugin 1.05 min
Octane standalone 0.56 min

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i thought that the difference would be bigger... like 50% more for standalone version. I have to say i am glad it's not so big

[gabrielefx]

Hi Karba, just wanted to say that i have done a small speed test for octane 2.1 3ds max plugin VS Octane Standalone 2.11.

scene 1

octane MAX plugin 1.33 min
Octane standalone 1.19 min

scene 2

octane MAX plugin 1.05 min
Octane standalone 0.56 min

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i thought that the difference would be bigger... like 50% more for standalone version. I have to say i am glad it's not so big

Why the standalone is faster???

[mykola1985]

nice question...

[oguzbir]

Why the standalone is faster???

gabrielefx,
devs can answer better but I guess that is understandable in some way.
I had noticed that before but I figure out by myself. I'm sure but here is what I think.

Back then when I was working as a TD in an animation studio. All my final animation renders were done in command line. Which it really differed from what I rendered inside max.
Which used lower resources. Even though I was using max internal renderers like scanline or MR.

Where as oct. standalone is directly connected to the kernel not through Octane3dsmax.dlr plugin file.
Which I think that makes that speed difference.

Another thing..
I'm not sure if mykola1985 did this test accurately.
I wonder how he tested it. Via octane viewport render or via final render?
I remember Karba saying long time ago (where the first max plugin was created by Karba while ago)
It was something like "Final render will be much quicker than Octane viewport" long time ago when the first max plugin was created.

[aoktar]

Hi Karba, just wanted to say that i have done a small speed test for octane 2.1 3ds max plugin VS Octane Standalone 2.11.

scene 1

octane MAX plugin 1.33 min
Octane standalone 1.19 min

scene 2

octane MAX plugin 1.05 min
Octane standalone 0.56 min

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i thought that the difference would be bigger... like 50% more for standalone version. I have to say i am glad it's not so big

Render priority

[mykola1985]

Render priority is set to high in Octane standalone and low priority unchecked for the 3ds MAX plugin. 99% GPU usage for both.

P.s. in some non heavy scenes the difference is minimal but still the standalone is always faster.

[mykola1985]

Karba, there is another bug with displacement I think....
the Octane viewport won't open anymore as soon as I apply a material with displacement map on multiple geometry instances. In error LOG i get the following message:

CUDA error 719 on device 0: An exception occurred on the device while executing a kernel. The context cannot be used anymore and must be destroyed. All existing device memory allocations from this context are invalid and must be reconstructed.
-> kernel execution failed (pick)
device 0: picking failed

i can send you the scene..

UPDATE: even if i reopen the scene, it still gives me the same error message and Octane viewport fails to open.