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thanx for this new build !

Yes thank you:)

But I cannot find the Polygonside node, it's not in Octane Textures and even filter by 'poly' or 'side' won't find it :O

I removed and added the master plugin again and restarted Layout (BTW, is that master plugin really necessary to remove/add if I restart Layout to update the plugin?)

Other new features (e.g. diff. roughness and debug statistics) are there so I am using the correct version

Other than that it seems to work fine as your updates usually do

Antti

You need to add the plugin .p file again with ALT+F11 to the Layout, after remove the master plugin. You don't need to add the master plugin yourself, it is added by Octane when you enable it.

-Juanjo

Also there is strange thing with FiberFX in Layout. When I activate FiberFX for an object and then open IPR, I get error message "Node editor not initialized"
This does not happen if I don't use Octane so I think it is not in LW2015 alone and I also don't know if that comes from Octane or LW in general. That message also appears if I switch tabs in FiberFX.
If I activate and visit the FiberFX node editor once, then that message does not appear anymore. And it does not prevent IPR to open, it just gives that message.

This is not serious as it does not crash or do anything bad, it's just a bit strange

Antti

juanjgon wrote:You need to add the plugin .p file again with ALT+F11 to the Layout, after remove the master plugin. You don't need to add the master plugin yourself, it is added by Octane when you enable it.
-Juanjo

Hmm...ok but if the plugin filename does not change, I do it like this:
-close Layout
-replace the dat,dll and .p
-start Layout

I have not noticed any problems by that method but is it possible that something goes wrong if I do it like that? it would be very easy to do the daily updates like that. Also the About gives the exactly same version info with both methods

But even doing it like that won't make the Polygonside node to appear

Antti

You need to add the plugin again to the Layout because there is a new node. Replacing the file doesn't add new nodes to the Layout, you need to remove the master plugin and add the plugin again with ALT+F11

-Juanjo

atnreg wrote:Also there is strange thing with FiberFX in Layout. When I activate FiberFX for an object and then open IPR, I get error message "Node editor not initialized"
This does not happen if I don't use Octane so I think it is not in LW2015 alone and I also don't know if that comes from Octane or LW in general. That message also appears if I switch tabs in FiberFX.
If I activate and visit the FiberFX node editor once, then that message does not appear anymore. And it does not prevent IPR to open, it just gives that message.

This is not serious as it does not crash or do anything bad, it's just a bit strange

Antti

Yes, currently you need to enable the FiberFX node editor in all your FiberFX systems to work with Octane. Anyway you are going to need to enable it to add a Octane material to the hair.

-Juanjo

juanjgon wrote:You need to add the plugin again to the Layout because there is a new node. Replacing the file doesn't add new nodes to the Layout, you need to remove the master plugin and add the plugin again with ALT+F11
-Juanjo

Ok, now I get it and now I also found the node
One strange thing is that when I add the menu config, in addition to Octane menu another Additional menu appears with the all Octane menu items in one list. When that is deleted the normal Octane menu works fine. And as the plugin need to be deleted each time when updating, this happens on every update. This behaviour started with LW2015 version so I cannot tell if this is LW2015 or Octane thing


Thank you again!

Antti

This is a new behaviour with LW 2015, I noticed it also.

BorisGoreta wrote:This is a new behaviour with LW 2015, I noticed it also.

Ok, that's what I thought, thanks for info

Antti