OctaneRender® for ArchiCAD beta - build 1.17a [OBSOLETE]

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You can see the repetition of the image, when looking at the left top corner of the building.. it always starts with the same block of the texture.
Do you have any idea how to tweak this and get it more divers?

Hi Jeroen - that would be tricky. Even if Otoy implemented an "offset" pin on the "image" node, changing it for the building proxy would result in all building texturemaps being offset by the same amount.

Paul

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

1.17a2
- Stopped the ability for both focus and material picking to be on at the same time
- Material picker now works on proxy materials
- Added "Follow Normals" checkbox on the Generate Scatter window - which when selected force instances to point in the direction of the mesh surface normal. If you find the "Generate" button is off the bottom of the dialog window, exit ArchiCAD and use Regedit to delete the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GRAPHISOFT\ArchiCAD-64\ArchiCAD-64 16.0.0 [version]\Dialog Manager\Stored Monitor Rectangles" key
- Fixed issue where object position offset was being applied to all instances (the offset is now automatically set to 0, 0, 0)
- Instance generation parameters are now saved with the proxy info for the object the transform file was generated for
- Fixed issue where only the first mesh in the scene was being used to generate transforms
- Selection of the mesh in the Generate dialog popup is now by Mesh Id (name)
- The last csv/obj folder will be "remembered" in the file open/save dialog boxes

Paul

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Paul, 1.17a2 is zillion times wonderful !
Thanx so much.

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Hi Paul,
I have two things to report:

1) when saving the PLn file and re-open the file,
it did not open with the latest settings when saved;
got different csv, OBJ-proxy, but also other view settings (texture background instead of daylight).
Looks like it reloaded older settings, or mixed up some settings?

2) I encountered this in earlier versions too (but maybe I did not mention irt before.. I am not sure): sometimes the textures are missing.. as well in Archicad and therefor in the plugin. I can solve it by just open a material with texture and save it. It does not have to be the specific material, so it looks like it just has to reload the liobrary again?

that is it for now
greetings, Jeeroen

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Thanks Jeroen - I'll check these out in the next 24hrs. I've had the "did not save" before but (thought I had) fixed it. If you notice a particular sequence/workflow which is able to reproduce this issue every time, pls let me know.

For the missing textures, is there a material in the standard AC16 library which doesn't bring across the texture which I can test? Is it possible you have previously saved the Octane material as a default so it is using the default instead of converting the texture?

Paul

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For the missing textures, is there a material in the standard AC16 library which doesn't bring across the texture which I can test? Is it possible you have previously saved the Octane material as a default so it is using the default instead of converting the texture?
Paul

I got a quick quit Archicad when pushing the play/pause render button a few times (too fast)
and when reopened the PLN I missed all the textures again. Could easily resolve by just open the material library and not even adjust a material, but just close library.
greetings, Jeroen
UPDATE:
It does not look like it is a one material problem, but a load material library

UPDATE2:
doing this testing with recovered file, missing library, I also got a "cuda error" on the first card... and now I can not close down Archicad after having closed the plugin?
I'll close Archicad the hard way and will restart my PC to be sure.. I have been doing some heavy testing with a lot of proxies and grass
greetings, Jeroen

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and when reopened the PLN I missed all the textures again. Could easily resolve by just open the material library and not even adjust a material, but just close library.
greetings, Jeroen
Does that mean.....Octane rendered WITHOUT the texturemaps, then you shutdown the plugin, Options->Element Attributes->Materials, and then Octane rendered WITH texturemaps?

Is the above happening with normal ArchiCAD materials, or GDL materials, or proxy materials?

doing this testing with recovered file, missing library, I also got a "cuda error" on the first card... and now I can not close down Archicad after having closed the plugin?
I'll close Archicad the hard way and will restart my PC to be sure.. I have been doing some heavy testing with a lot of proxies and grass

I found with very large instanced scenes I was able to overwhelm my graphics card. When this happens, the Octane API (dll) can be left in a corrupt state, and unfortunately this means restarting AC.

Paul

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and when reopened the PLN I missed all the textures again. Could easily resolve by just open the material library and not even adjust a material, but just close library.
greetings, Jeroen
Does that mean.....Octane rendered WITHOUT the texturemaps, then you shutdown the plugin, Options->Element Attributes->Materials, and then Octane rendered WITH texturemaps?

Is the above happening with normal ArchiCAD materials, or GDL materials, or proxy materials?

Paul

It is happening in the Archicad scene when opening the PLN (even before starting the plugin).
The standard Archicad materials from the AC library are not shown with textures.
greetings, Jeroen

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I started a completely new PLN to see if erors as in previous posts occur again.
After modelling a bit I started the plugin and this error occured:
I closed the plugin, re-opened it and no error appeared this time.
I saved the PLN, closed Archicad re-opened the PLN and the materials are without textures????

I opende the AC material library and closed it again.. the materials are OK with textures again.
I closed the PLn without having opened the plugin and it is without textures again!.

I made another scene from blank (using the standard template) with textures and did not open the plugin at all, saved the PLn and opened it again. This test is to make sure it is not an Archicad thing The textures are OK this time.

Now again I opened the plugin (without opening OR viewport) and closed it without doing anything else. Textures are OK.
This time I open the OR viewport and close and re-open the file: everything is still OK!
next test are with closing PLN and open everytime:
next test: add an AC object: OK!
next test: import material to AC wall OK!
next test: add proxy to the AC object: OK!
next test: add scatter to the proxy: textures are OK, but scatter is not done !
next test: add scatter again to the proxy: textures are OK, but scatter is not done !

The last file I cannot replicate the texture error again, but only got the csv-not-loading.

@Paul, Can you make up anything from this?

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Firstly - my standard ArchiCAD template uses an extracted library - are you doing the same? Or are you using the C:\Program Files\GRAPHISOFT\ArchiCAD 16\ArchiCAD Library 16?

Secondly - Could I trouble you pls to send me the minimum workflow required to reproduce this. I need actual keystrokes, because if I can't reproduce it, I end up spending all day trying to work out why. There is something definitely amiss, but it's all working OK my my system, so the challenge is for me to be able to reproduce the problem.

Thanks

Paul