OctaneRender™ Standalone 1.29

[Synthercat]

Errrr I had to use specular didn't I?

[roeland]

Yes, either a specular (for glass and such) or a diffuse with transmission enabled.

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Roeland

[gardeler]

Turntable freeze.
I'm trying to render a turntable in 1.29. Each frame takes about 10 min, and I have set it to do a 360 over a 100 frames. I start it to run over night, but when I return to my desk the day after, the render has stopped in the middle of a frame. (frame 13). There is no feedback in the terminal of any kind. Has anybody experienced something similar?

I have recently switched to linux, so I do not have any program for monitoring gpu performance. Any recomendations similar to gpuZ?

I suspected that it might be something simple, like linux shutting down the gpu's when going into screensaver or something. But I have turned off everything I could find.

I will retry tonight, so any tips and tricks are welcome!

Im running Ubuntu 13.04, i7-3930K, 32gb ram and 2xTitans.

[gabrielefx]

what about a 360 degrees Lua animation script to create VR animations?

[gardeler]

Turntable freeze.
I'm trying to render a turntable in 1.29. Each frame takes about 10 min, and I have set it to do a 360 over a 100 frames. I start it to run over night, but when I return to my desk the day after, the render has stopped in the middle of a frame. (frame 13). There is no feedback in the terminal of any kind. Has anybody experienced something similar?

I have recently switched to linux, so I do not have any program for monitoring gpu performance. Any recomendations similar to gpuZ?

I suspected that it might be something simple, like linux shutting down the gpu's when going into screensaver or something. But I have turned off everything I could find.

I will retry tonight, so any tips and tricks are welcome!

Im running Ubuntu 13.04, i7-3930K, 32gb ram and 2xTitans.

Just moved the scene to a windows box, and the first thing I noticed was a 20% speed increase! (from 10 min to 8) It has the same hardware as the linux box, except the motherboard. Is there really a that big speed difference between linux and windows? I checked my overclock settings and everything is set to default for the titans. And I do not have any OC program on linux, so I assume they run at the same settings. Interesting...!

[Synthercat]

That's weird cause If can can find my benchmarks I remember that Windows764 vs Linux-64 had different results

Linux was something like 1-4% slower BUT it did load the file A LOT faster.
I only use linux now

[felipezumaeta]

I'm getting this message when I try to download the Windows Zip file:

Gateway Anti-Virus Alert

This request is blocked by the SonicWALL Anti-Spyware Service. Name: Banload.PAV Installer (Trojan)

[gardeler]

That's weird cause If can can find my benchmarks I remember that Windows764 vs Linux-64 had different results

Linux was something like 1-4% slower BUT it did load the file A LOT faster.
I only use linux now

Yes, it sounds strange, I agree. Our sysadmin, (very linux savvy), is sick today. When he is back, I'll ask him to take a look at the linux box to see if he can find a reason for it to be slower.

[boris]

Menu: Script > Render Imported Animation
Is this the way to get an image sequence out of Octane?
The only option there is PNG 8bit?
If I select alpha option in RenderTarget plus "Keep Environment" the rendered images do NOT KEEP the environment.
cheers
boris

[smicha]

If I select alpha option in RenderTarget plus "Keep Environment" the rendered images do NOT KEEP the environment.

I have the same issue.

As I mentioned some time ago, the lock button (the padlock) is not working - when I maximize the preview window it is being deactivated (I use dual monitor setup).