OctaneRender™ 2.1 for LightWave™ - Daily builds

[Builtdown]

I think I solved this :
I tried to save to a folder with european letter in it. Saving was not succesful.
Then I saved to an another folder with no european letters and it saved normally.

It´s weird that when the image is rendered to completion, it saves normally to a folder with european letters but when trying to save in the middle of rendering, it does not.
Any chance to fix this?


- Builtdown

[BorisGoreta]

When I press play IPR does not update animation, when scrubbing it updates fine, I am talking about fast rendering scenes which render realtime, something like Brigade.

[tyrot]

Juan just thank you for new beta - It is awesome..

[atnreg]

Juanjo, I have two problems:
-when using HDRLS button with HDR Light Studio everything looks exact in IPR. And when I render the env image in HDR Light Studio and use it in Octane environment, the IPR looks the same (except for huge resolution improvement of course). Then when I do F9 render, the LW preview during the render looks the same but when the actual rendered image appears in LW image viewer, it is notably darker :O I have all CS settings in LW as Linear. And without env. image that does not happen, the preview looks exactly the same as the final rendered image. Any idea why this happens?
-this is old problem but it is so serious that I now make the max. samples to use way over needed and then always do Abort+Cont because if I let the render go to the end, LW gets in not responding state often (the 99% problem), not always but too often.

Other than these I have no problems with Octane

Antti

[juanjgon]

Juanjo, I have two problems:
-when using HDRLS button with HDR Light Studio everything looks exact in IPR. And when I render the env image in HDR Light Studio and use it in Octane environment, the IPR looks the same (except for huge resolution improvement of course). Then when I do F9 render, the LW preview during the render looks the same but when the actual rendered image appears in LW image viewer, it is notably darker :O I have all CS settings in LW as Linear. And without env. image that does not happen, the preview looks exactly the same as the final rendered image. Any idea why this happens?
-this is old problem but it is so serious that I now make the max. samples to use way over needed and then always do Abort+Cont because if I let the render go to the end, LW gets in not responding state often (the 99% problem), not always but too often.

Other than these I have no problems with Octane

Antti

If all the LW color settings are disabled, perhaps the problem is that you have the "Get Full linear HDR image" option enbled in the render target. Check it.

I have tested several times your 99% problem here without luck, but I will try some things again tomorrow. Are you working with the last daily build?

-Juanjo

[BorisGoreta]

Are procedural texture nodes supposed to move the texture with deformable objects ? Now I can't see this behaviour.

[atnreg]

If all the LW color settings are disabled, perhaps the problem is that you have the "Get Full linear HDR image" option enbled in the render target. Check it.

YES! That was it, thanks!
The manual only says "Enable to get the full HDRI no clipped and no tone mapped Octane frame buffer.". That I understand but what does it mean in practice? When should I use that feature?

I have tested several times your 99% problem here without luck, but I will try some things again tomorrow. Are you working with the last daily build?
-Juanjo

Yes I know this is hard to fix if it does not happen for you, therefore thank you very much for still working on it . I am using 2.12.1 - 28/Oct/2014.
Earlier I thought it had something to do with my particular scene but now I started new scene completely from scratch (of course used same Octane settings and Render Target settings) but the result was the same - if I let it try to finish the render, the result is mostly LW not responding at 99% when the remaining time is 1 or few seconds.

I always use PMC Kernel for max reality but could it be that some setting I have can cause this? Just in case, I attached my current RenderTarget (had to rar it, .dat is not allowed here), it uses env map but as the problem occurred earlier without one, I didn't include the image (it's big). I hope that will help you solving the problem
In case you wonder, there are couple of nodes not connected as I might need them some time and they keep the settings even if not connected so that way I have options for easy access.

And of course if there is anything strange in any of my settings that can cause problems and/or render quality issues or are just 'wrong' in your opininion, please let me know, I have tweaked the settings quite a bit to get fast but clean renders

Thank you very much again!

Antti

[juanjgon]

Are procedural texture nodes supposed to move the texture with deformable objects ? Now I can't see this behaviour.

As far I know Octane procedurals currently are working in object space only at transformations level (translations, rotations and so on), but they don't support mesh deformations. You need to use conventional UV maps to fix the textures to the mesh deformations.

-Juanjo

[juanjgon]

The manual only says "Enable to get the full HDRI no clipped and no tone mapped Octane frame buffer.". That I understand but what does it mean in practice? When should I use that feature?

With this option enabled you get the full linear, not tone mapped, HDR image. This linear image can be useful to be used in post if you want to apply your own tone mapper, gamma or color corrections and so on.

-Juanjo

[atnreg]

The manual only says "Enable to get the full HDRI no clipped and no tone mapped Octane frame buffer.". That I understand but what does it mean in practice? When should I use that feature?

With this option enabled you get the full linear, not tone mapped, HDR image. This linear image can be useful to be used in post if you want to apply your own tone mapper, gamma or color corrections and so on.

-Juanjo

Ok, then I'll keep it off at least for now, I don't do post processing
Good luck with finding the 99% problem with my RenderTarget

Antti