Thanks for the quick response, maybe that was a bad example scene. I have replicated the problem using a new scene with only a cube and octane daylight.
Same thing happens - Render to picture viewer fails unless I render in live viewer first. I've added screen grabs of the 3 steps I have to take to render to picture viewer.
Thanks for any help.
Started logging on 06.04.16 15:53:42
OctaneRender 3.00 alpha 6 (3000006)
no interface found with subnet address 192.168.1.0, not changing the daemon scan subnet
Scene created in plugin version -1
Scene created in plugin version -1
FRAME 0 fps:30 camMb:0 objMb:0
docFrame:0 edRender:0 curFrame:0 From:-1 To:1 rFps:30 docFps:30
Static cnt changed at Frame:-1 cnt:1
Static cnt changed at Frame:0 cnt:0
Total time:6.201 ms. Estimated time:4.134 ms.
Calculation completed.... frames:[-1-2]
--------------------------- EXPORT LOG ---------------------------
Export materials time= 0.063 ms
Collect objects time= 0.022 ms
Mesh creation time = 2.295 ms.
device 0: can't bind to render thread (0x0) in scope of other thread (0x7fdce5047e60)
device 1: can't bind to render thread (0x0) in scope of other thread (0x7fdce52dc790)
Triangles:12 Disp.triangles:0 Hair count:0 Mesh count:1
<<< Render Failure >>>
VRAM used/free/max:0Kb/0Kb/0Kb
Total export Time = 253.527 ms
movable:0 Nodes:17 camMb:0 objMb:0
Scene created in plugin version -1
--------------------------- EXPORT LOG ---------------------------
Export materials time= 0.031 ms
Collect objects time= 0.025 ms
Mesh creation time = 2.313 ms.
Triangles:12 Disp.triangles:0 Hair count:0 Mesh count:1
VRAM used/free/max:345Mb/2.021Gb/4Gb
Total export Time = 652.445 ms
FRAME 0 fps:30 camMb:0 objMb:0
docFrame:0 edRender:0 curFrame:0 From:-1 To:1 rFps:30 docFps:30
Static cnt changed at Frame:-1 cnt:2
Static cnt changed at Frame:0 cnt:0
Total time:15.807 ms. Estimated time:10.538 ms.
Calculation completed.... frames:[-1-2]
--------------------------- EXPORT LOG ---------------------------
Export materials time= 0.058 ms
Collect objects time= 0.024 ms
Mesh creation time = 2.051 ms.
Triangles:12 Disp.triangles:0 Hair count:0 Mesh count:1
VRAM used/free/max:348Mb/2.046Gb/4Gb
Total export Time = 108.518 ms
movable:1 Nodes:17 camMb:0 objMb:0