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

Radiance

face wrote:

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

Radiance

I have the check...
I use the PROCESSENTRY32::szExeFile from the Tool Help Library to search a running octane.exe process.
First, export & render the scene, then check if running. If running, loop with a 100ms delay, else go to next frame, export and render again.
But i think this is to fast, so that Octne can´t shutdown correctly.
With a delay of 500ms it works.

face

radiance wrote:

face wrote:

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

Radiance

I have the check...
I use the PROCESSENTRY32::szExeFile from the Tool Help Library to search a running octane.exe process.
First, export & render the scene, then check if running. If running, loop with a 100ms delay, else go to next frame, export and render again.
But i think this is to fast, so that Octne can´t shutdown correctly.
With a delay of 500ms it works.

face

sometimes, on large resolutions octane needs to wait for the renderpass to finish and this can take up to several seconds before it exists...

Radiance

El Burritoh wrote:Face, about my Softimage problem, I'm going to have to try something else. When I replaced that dll and launched XSI, the Octane Export option didn't even show up, even though the plug-in was still installed. I uninstalled it and re-installed it, retaining the old dll, and it still didn't show up. I'll try a couple of things before I post back, just to make sure I've got my ducks in a row.

El Burritoh wrote:Face, about my Softimage problem, I'm going to have to try something else. When I replaced that dll and launched XSI, the Octane Export option didn't even show up, even though the plug-in was still installed. I uninstalled it and re-installed it, retaining the old dll, and it still didn't show up. I'll try a couple of things before I post back, just to make sure I've got my ducks in a row.

Gabba wrote:Same problem even with the last .dll it doesn't see octane even if it's ay that it's installed =(

face wrote: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