Beta 2.2 RC1: SoftImage XSI plugin testing thread

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I'm running Softimage 2011 64-bit with Octane beta 2.2....just bought that yesterday as a matter of fact. Awesome tool!

The xsi addon installs just fine of course, but when I point it to the Octane exe, it fails and tells me to use Octane 2.2. I've double-checked, and yes, I am running Octane 2.2. So I'm not sure how to proceed.

When you haved downloaded this one http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... =24&t=1803 it should be work...


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[El Burritoh]

Yep, that's the one alright. I grabbed the Windows 7 64-bit version of the 2.2 beta, and the plugins from that same page... No luck.

[face]

Try to change the octane_64.dll with the one from the zip in the folder:
C:\Users\xxx\Autodesk\Softimage_2011\Addons\Octane_Exporter\Application\Plugins
before you start Softimage.

octane_x64.zip

(82.37 KiB) Downloaded 206 times

Then start Softimage, run the addon under File->Export->Octane_exporter
Choose the Octane Execute under the Project Configuration, open the script editor and tell me, what you see.
You should see "' INFO : buff: x" where x is any value, tell me that value.

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[face]

Have found a issue with the "Skip Rendered Frames" option.
For rigid bodys, it doesn´t work correct while the calculation of the simulation is ever a little bit different so that the frames doesn´t match.
For that you should freeze the animation.

For Pointclouds, you should use the write to chache function, when the addon is out

I found that, while Octane like to crash when i render a animation. About 3-5 times in 100 frames.
Maybe i can catch the freezes from Octane, kill the process and send the same data again to Octane, so that you can render a animation in one time, without to render skipped frames while Octane crashed.

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[radiance]

Have found a issue with the "Skip Rendered Frames" option.
For rigid bodys, it doesn´t work correct while the calculation of the simulation is ever a little bit different so that the frames doesn´t match.
For that you should freeze the animation.

For Pointclouds, you should use the write to chache function, when the addon is out

I found that, while Octane like to crash when i render a animation. About 3-5 times in 100 frames.
Maybe i can catch the freezes from Octane, kill the process and send the same data again to Octane, so that you can render a animation in one time, without to render skipped frames while Octane crashed.

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it would be handy if we can figure out why it crashes,
can describe in detail what happens ?

Radiance

[face]

Have found a issue with the "Skip Rendered Frames" option.
For rigid bodys, it doesn´t work correct while the calculation of the simulation is ever a little bit different so that the frames doesn´t match.
For that you should freeze the animation.

For Pointclouds, you should use the write to chache function, when the addon is out

I found that, while Octane like to crash when i render a animation. About 3-5 times in 100 frames.
Maybe i can catch the freezes from Octane, kill the process and send the same data again to Octane, so that you can render a animation in one time, without to render skipped frames while Octane crashed.

face

it would be handy if we can figure out why it crashes,
can describe in detail what happens ?

Radiance

First try:
Frame 58 visual c++ runtime error but Octane closed so fast that i can´t see anything.
Frame 62 crash.

I have opened the report metadata.
Maybe i start octane again before another session is not closed.
While i see two times the octane.exe
Will try to insert a delay...

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
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		<Build>7600 </Build>
		<Product>(0x1): Windows 7 Ultimate</Product>
		<Edition>Ultimate</Edition>
		<BuildString>7600.16539.amd64fre.win7_gdr.100226-1909</BuildString>
		<Revision>1</Revision>
		<Flavor>Multiprocessor Free</Flavor>
		<Architecture>X64</Architecture>
		<LCID>1031</LCID>
	</OSVersionInformation>
	<ParentProcessInformation>
		<ParentProcessId>4760</ParentProcessId>
		<ParentProcessPath>G:\softimage\Softimage_2011_64\Application\bin\XSI.exe</ParentProcessPath>
		<ParentProcessCmdLine>"G:\softimage\Softimage_2011_64\Application\bin\XSI.exe"  </ParentProcessCmdLine>
	</ParentProcessInformation>
	<ProblemSignatures>
		<EventType>APPCRASH</EventType>
		<Parameter0>octane.exe</Parameter0>
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		<Parameter2>4bfd69b2</Parameter2>
		<Parameter3>octane.exe</Parameter3>
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		<Parameter7>00000000001fbe8a</Parameter7>
	</ProblemSignatures>
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[radiance]

It's possible for octane to crash on startup if another instance is still running, and has a decent block of GPU memory used.
maybe this is the issue ?

Radiance

[face]

It's possible for octane to crash on startup if another instance is still running, and has a decent block of GPU memory used.
maybe this is the issue ?

Radiance

Maybe, i will try to add a delay for 1000ms so that Octane can shut down.

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[face]

Now it works...

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[radiance]

I think it might be good if you do a check of some sorts to make sure octane has quit.

Radiance