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can we generate grass scatter files from within the Revit plugin?

No, that's not something that's possible in the Revit plugin. It was added to the AC plugin as an experimental feature - to see if it provided a viable option for rendering grass. I'm not sure that anyone has used it though (as I haven't seen any renders with the plugin generated grass) - so I can only assume that it's not been a particularly useful feature.

Paul

I have refreshed the installer at the top of this thread with:

2.24.2.55...

Yip, it works again
Many thanks,
Artur

Hi Paul,
I get this message on every start of a Project. I didn´t see other Problems depending on that. But please could you describe it, why I get something like this?
Thanks a lot

Hi Paul,
I get this message on every start of a Project. I didn´t see other Problems depending on that. But please could you describe it, why I get something like this?
Thanks a lot

Can you pls update to the latest test build and let me know if the problem still occurs there?

Thanks

Paul

I have refreshed the installers at the top of this thread with:

2.24.2.57
- Fixed issue where the LiveDb was not available after loading large ArchiCAD scenes

2.24.2.56
- Change to allow reading of Surface name from ArchiCAD with more than 31 characters. Only works with AC19.

Paul

Following is a pre-release of the Octane3 version of the ArchiCAD plugin, for ArchiCAD 19 only at this stage.

3.0.0.58
- Compiled with Octane 3.0.0
- Added Medium and Medium Radius to the Daylight and Texture Environment settings
- Added new Render Passes
- Removed "Ambient" and "Sample Environment" GI Modes from the Direct Light kernel
- Added Deep Image settings to the kernel settings
- Added support for VDB files (add them in proxy ORBX files)

* If your default rendertarget has Render Passes->Info After Beauty ticked, I suggest unticking it and re-saving your default rendertarget
* KNOWN ISSUE: if you pause rendering, change an Octane setting, then continue rendering, the Viewport will freeze (and you will need to refresh the scene to restart the Viewport).

You can install and use this version with your Octane 2 license.

As this is the first Octane 3 build of the ArchiCAD plugin, exercise caution and keep backup of the 2.24.2 versions of your scenes.

https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... _64bit.exe

Paul

Hi Paul, thanks for the update!
I was wondering if the plugin will suport texture baking?

Cheers

Stefan

I was wondering if the plugin will suport texture baking?

It should do, when Baking is added to the Octane API alpha.

Paul

I have refreshed the installers at the top of this thread with:

3.0.1.59
- Compiled with Octane 3.0 alpha 2 (3.0.1)
- Added new Octane 3 Infochannel Types
- Added Baking Camera. This does not appear to be working - and I suspect this is due to the UV coordinates that ArchiCAD supplies being absolute, and not rpeating in a 0-1 range.
- Manual updated with Octane 3 features. Pls see https://docs.otoy.com/ArchiCAD/?page_id=443 for details.

3.0.0.58
- Compiled with Octane 3.0.0
- Added Medium and Medium Radius to the Daylight and Texture Environment settings
- Added new Render Passes
- Removed "Ambient" and "Sample Environment" GI Modes from the Direct Light kernel
- Added Deep Image settings to the kernel settings
- Added support for VDB files (add them in proxy ORBX files)

* If your default rendertarget has Render Passes->Info After Beauty ticked, I suggest unticking it and re-saving your default rendertarget

As this is the first Octane 3 build of the ArchiCADplugin, pls make backups of your scenes prior to using the plugin.

Paul

Thanx a lot Paul!