OctaneRender™ 4 RC 7

[abstrax]

Hi guys,i have a problem with this version when I use the kernel infochannel.

When I use the infochannel kernel the sofa disappears from the scene

With other kernels it works correctly.

You have to connect the render target "INFO CHANNEL" with the geometry group node. In your current setup it's only connected with the mesh "scandinavo.obj" which doesn't include the sofa object, which is in the node graph "SOFA".

[abstrax]

Okay, so if I adjust the opacity on the emission material, I can get the real foreground to match the reflection.
But any ideas how come the mirrored part won't reflect the opacity of the foreground, thx!

Ohhhhhhhhhh....
Wait - I have to uncheck "Visible on Specular" to make it appear or not appear...


A little counter intuitive, but then again, everything is, including my perception....
our existence is counter intuitive...

How are the poor folks using Unity plugin, and the future UE4 plugin, supposed to figure this stuff out...
They are not as smart and nimble as I am, you know?

Sorry, I don't fully understand how the setup is done. It could be an export issue with the unity plugin or something else. If you make an ORBX export and send it to me I can check what is going on here.

[calus]

So it's possible in the Image Tiles Texture node to setup a pattern for most of the UV tile naming conventions,
except for the UDIM convention ?

You can set it up as follows:

• The grid is 10 tiles wide.
• Use the %i placeholder for single index
• Set the start index to 1001
• 4 digits.

Oh I see,
thanks Roeland.
sorry I was expecting the "use pattern" tool to detect the needed grid size by itself (and optimize it).

So the way it works can generate many empty grid cell,
for example for just 2 rows of 2 tiles, so 4 tiles, 20 grid cell are needed.

Is it Ok, optimization wise, to have many empty grid cell ?

[mac3d]

Hi Abstrax

Oops!...Sorry,I need a pair of glasses

[Notiusweb]

Okay, so if I adjust the opacity on the emission material, I can get the real foreground to match the reflection.
But any ideas how come the mirrored part won't reflect the opacity of the foreground, thx!

Ohhhhhhhhhh....
Wait - I have to uncheck "Visible on Specular" to make it appear or not appear...


A little counter intuitive, but then again, everything is, including my perception....
our existence is counter intuitive...

How are the poor folks using Unity plugin, and the future UE4 plugin, supposed to figure this stuff out...
They are not as smart and nimble as I am, you know?

Sorry, I don't fully understand how the setup is done. It could be an export issue with the unity plugin or something else. If you make an ORBX export and send it to me I can check what is going on here.

LOL...No worries, I had figured it out...the Unity part was just banter on my part.
But while we are at it, I am looking forward to importing / exporting w/materials and UE4 plugin.
And shout out again to gLTF.
Also, looking forward to 5's substrates later on.

[FrankPooleFloating]

+1 for the glTF shoutout.

[roeland]

Oh I see,
thanks Roeland.
sorry I was expecting the "use pattern" tool to detect the needed grid size by itself (and optimize it).

So the way it works can generate many empty grid cell,
for example for just 2 rows of 2 tiles, so 4 tiles, 20 grid cell are needed.

octane_2018-11-12_07-31-48.png

Is it Ok, optimization wise, to have many empty grid cell ?

That is OK, the empty cells will not have much overhead.

Is it common to use only a few columns in an UDIM grid?

[calus]

Is it common to use only a few columns in an UDIM grid?

Not so much but using different rows to organize different meaningful group of UV tiles is rather common, so you can get some of the rows with a only a few tiles.

[kacperspala]

What is the status of the stable version? It is almost a month since this 'we can get the stable version out next week' version and 8 months since the announcement of octane 4.

[Notiusweb]

I am finding that if I import a FBX, I can not render or view the animation on the time line by clicking on different points in the timeline.
I actually have to hit the stop button and the play again in order to update the frame throughout the timeline.

However, if I import an alembic of the same animation, there is no issue. I can click on any part of the timeline, and Octane will update the render to show the selected fame.

Alembic shows the AI loading and AI Caching in bottom left, and updates the frame per the timeline in the viewport .
In other words, it actually renders each frame on the timeline in the case of an Alembic file.
FBX does not update in the viewport, it just sticks to the last 'loaded-in' frame no matter where you click on the timeline.