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Thanks for the quick update - I have downloaded it and it is now rendering hair again!

New update posted to this thread to address a .csv parsing problem.

Hi Simon,
Would it be possible to accept empty VDB files? Works well in OR Standalone, but Carrara crashes.
Best wishes,
Thomas

Empty vdb example: https://www.dropbox.com/s/47pcbpmkaldayag/empty-vdb.vdb

New update posted to this thread to address some crash and animation issues.

Uh, that was fast. Thx

Loading in empty VDB files works, but in Animation mode, there is a problem. If I have an animation with empty VDB files and I slide to a filled VDB file and afterwards to an empty file again, the OR Viewer does not update. That is, I still see the filled VDB file in the OR Viewer. I hope you understand what I mean

New update posted to this thread to address problems with empty VDB files during an animation.

Sighman - Happy New Year! Not an issue, but a request. I have been working recently with surfaces which have a texture map in the glow/emission component. I need to set these up with Carrara's shaders but would ideally like them to render in Octane Render too without having to adjust them all each time I render - there are a lot! The default conversion from having a texture in Carrara's glow channel into Octane's Emission channel seems to give a very low value for the emission, of 0.03, which is almost equivalent to having no emission at all.

Would it be possible to have a look at this and change the default translation from Carara shader's glow to Octane Material's Emission to something that looks broadly equivalent? Also if there is a multiplier on the Carrara side, so Multiplying a texture map by say 250%, could you use this to adjust the strength of the Emission automatically in Octane?

I hope this will be an easy task and something that you can build into the next major update. No worries if not, I can do things manually, but having a good automatic translation would be a real time saver (and hopefully useful for other Octane for Carrara users as well!).

Hi Phil, should be easy enough. Should it be a global multiplier or a per object setting?