OcDS PROBLEMS RESULTING IN CRASHES - read & post here...

[orion_uk]

Deleted this post as it was no longer relevant to the issue concerned!

[UruMike]

Ok, this gets annoying, it happened a few times now...

Sometimes when setting up a scene and changing the kernel from PMC to Direc Light or vice versa Studio crashes.
AND I CANNOT REOPEN THE SCENE!
I have found no workaround to make these scenes work again.
Hours spent setting something up and badabum - start from scratch...

sorry to hear that!

& two important points about that: if opening a scene file results in a crash, this is not necessary the end. if a bug is fixed, there is a pretty good chance that this will also allow to reopen a scene that was crashing before. and the 2nd point: i need crash reports - otherwise i'm not able to help or find the reason. whenever it happens, whenever possible - please send me crash reports, log files, descriptions, whatever. we are 13 days into the public beta, and as much as i'd like to have it mature and stable already - it will need a little more time to get there...

Hello t_3

First my apologies for the tone I used in my posting.
I was just majorly sauer because I spent some hours setting something up.
Again, I'm sorry for that.

Actually I can of course confirm that I think all my scenes I could not reopen work again now with the new dll.
I actually had one crash opening a scene, but interesting enough it worked the next time...

About the crash reports, I know that, but it was late and I really had to go to sleep, and I hoped the update would come out soon - what it did - and maybe my issues would be resolved, what they actually seem to be!

And about orion_uk's issue with animation rendering, this happened to me also last week or so, but I can't remember exactly what I did, I just played around with the animation tab.
Please let me know if you like to have any tests done!
One thing I had happening a few times last night when I did a quick animation test: The plugin seems to mix up maxsamples values.
I set them to 500, clicked on "get current Camera..." in the anim tab and hit Start Animation. It started rendering with the default 2000 samples.
Went back to render settings and opened the viewport. It started to render to 2000 samples. I changed the value to 501 samples which was recognized.
Also then the animation was rendered with 501 samples - until I killed an animation.
When I restarted it wanted to render to 2000 samples again...

But one thing at a time!

First of all, get better, take care for yourself!

When you are better, have a look at the code.
And when the weather gets better, go out and enjoy it!

Regards, Mike

[orion_uk]

I set them to 500, clicked on "get current Camera..." in the anim tab and hit Start Animation. It started rendering with the default 2000 samples.

I just thought I was getting something wrong as I only began to use the cue after advice from t_3 but..

Confirmed, I just thought I was going ga ga but yes... sometimes, changing the samples is NOT seen when made in the cue or render settings, for me, it seems to default to 5000 samples tho!

I just `re-installed` OcDS UPDATE v1.0.111.2158 and may have a new issue and one fixed (almost) !

Now my frames are rendering with out the `film grain effect` and I have had no crashes since copying the new plugin file to my plugins folder, BUT render animation only render 3 frames then does nothing after the third frame is complete, well, it does not complete the third frame..it `sits` at 477/500 s/pix! A couple of times I have clicked render animation button and it just said WAITING and did nothing!

[UruMike]

I set them to 500, clicked on "get current Camera..." in the anim tab and hit Start Animation. It started rendering with the default 2000 samples.

I just thought I was getting something wrong as I only began to use the cue after advice from t_3 but..

Confirmed, I just thought I was going ga ga but yes... sometimes, changing the samples is NOT seen when made in the cue or render settings, for me, it seems to default to 5000 samples tho!

I just `re-installed` OcDS UPDATE v1.0.111.2158 and may have a new issue and one fixed (almost) !

Now my frames are rendering with out the `film grain effect` and I have had no crashes since copying the new plugin file to my plugins folder, BUT render animation only render 3 frames then does nothing after the third frame is complete, well, it does not complete the third frame..it `sits` at 477/500 s/pix! A couple of times I have clicked render animation button and it just said WAITING and did nothing!

I can confirm that, I just had the exact same issue.
In addition, after this I wanted to open the viewport. It opens, but all I see is the circle saying Creating Geometry or something like this. Forever. Had to kill Studio...

[orion_uk]

It opens, but all I see is the circle saying Creating Geometry or something like this. Forever. Had to kill Studio...

Yes, I get the exact same thing when rendering stills (open viewport) in mat tab and have to close DS with task manager..

Pressing animation button still wont complete 3rd frame or any after

What files (exactly) do you need sent to you for you to trouble shoot this t-3?

[t_3]

First my apologies for the tone I used in my posting.
I was just majorly sauer because I spent some hours setting something up.
Again, I'm sorry for that.

no prob i know such situations from myself of course and don't like that happen too. and you were still sounding decent anyway

@both of you (and others): iwill have a look into that anim issues (the old one and the new one) soon. since there were similar issues in the closed beta, i need to find a better way for the ffwd sequence timing.

you may try in the meanwhile to render the animation with to a fixed time per frame instead a number of maxsamples...

[orion_uk]

@both of you (and others): iwill have a look into that anim issues (the old one and the new one) soon. since there were similar issues in the closed beta, i need to find a better way for the ffwd sequence timing

Thanks t_3, I just tried that and still not getting past frame 3, frame 4 does not start rendering and the orange scrolling bars just scrolls away to no end. Also, This means that I cant open viewport in mat tab (or any other tab) as that does what UruMike was saying about forced close:(

Think I will role back one version of the plugin until these issue are resolved, at least I would be able to use the open viewport button while in the mat tab(or any other tab) and work on still scenes

[t_3]

Thanks t_3, I just tried that and still not getting past frame 3, frame 4 does not start rendering and the orange scrolling bars just scrolls away to no end. Also, This means that I cant open viewport in mat tab (or any other tab) as that does what UruMike was saying about forced close:(

sounds annoying. will see what a can do. if you try the older version, you might have a look if fixed time rendering helps to get rid of the incomplete frames...

[orion_uk]

Will take a look

[orion_uk]

Thanks t_3, I just tried that and still not getting past frame 3, frame 4 does not start rendering and the orange scrolling bars just scrolls away to no end. Also, This means that I cant open viewport in mat tab (or any other tab) as that does what UruMike was saying about forced close:(

sounds annoying. will see what a can do. if you try the older version, you might have a look if fixed time rendering helps to get rid of the incomplete frames...

Nope, using the default installer from my downloads section (has need to press clay button twice to load mats/textures) does not help with incomplete frames (for my for my problematic scene, but some newly created scenes animations render fine!) however, does allow me to render from other tabs with viewport.

OcDs_Update_v1_0_111_2115 wont even open the Octane render plugin tab via right click add from pane-octanerender OR via menu-render-OctaneRender Main..!!!

OcDs_Update_v1_0_111_2158 ---- hangs (needing forced close) while loading geometry and has the `halt` at beginning of frame 4 no matter if I choose constant time or not

Back to square one