OctaneRender™ Standalone 3.00 alpha 3

[chupinsky27]

A major reason we took on OpenCL was to support the MacPro. Today the MacPro/OSX is still on OpenCL 1.2 which is very old - you have Android phones with full OCL 2.1 support coming this year through Vulkan. It is looking more and more likely that Metal is the future of GPGPU on OSX. If that's the case, we need to factor this into the long term OSX roadmap. In the meantime, we will do all we can do get Octane running with OCL 1.2, but as Marcus said, it's just at the bare minimum that Octane requires.

Glad to hear that you guys are exploring other avenues to specifically support the MacPro/OSX. I admit that I'm not fully versed in all the technologies available to a developer to make something like this happen so when I heard of doubts of OpenCL's viability, I was worried. Either it be Metal, OpenCL, Boltzman, or something I am completely unaware of, I'm sure you guys will figure it out.

On a tangent, what are the current thoughts of a virtualized environment? I remember the moment I got hooked into Octane... seeing Octane run on a rack of Nvidia VCAs, remotely, off a laptop, several hundred miles away at the GTC 13 presentation. For a studio environment like mine, minus the remote capabilities, this could be the best solution... that is, if the resources could be dynamically allocated based off of the artist's needs. Again, I am not versed in the technical capabilities of this yet I'm curious.

[smicha]

What could be a reason for inverted normals for any geometry with a displacement map applied (from zbrush if it helps)?

Could you show a screen shot? Normals shouldn't be inverted by displacement mapping.

Here is the screenshot. Are vertex normals as should be with displacement on ?

[grimm]

I'm not sure that this has worked for a while but the obj file loader doesn't read the mtl file correctly. It used to just have problems with normal maps but now it doesn't read any texture type correctly.

fog-test2-nofog.obj

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The forum software doesn't let me upload the mtl file but here it is:

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# Blender MTL File: 'fog-test2-nofog.blend'
# Material Count: 2

newmtl Material.001
Ns 96.078431
Ka 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000
Kd 0.640000 0.640000 0.640000
Ks 0.500000 0.500000 0.500000
Ke 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
Ni 1.000000
d 1.000000
illum 2

newmtl Material.002
Ns 96.078431
Ka 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000
Kd 0.640000 0.640000 0.640000
Ks 0.500000 0.500000 0.500000
Ke 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
Ni 1.000000
d 1.000000
illum 2

These were generated by Blender.

[grimm]

The environment medium doesn't work for me. I made this test scene in Blender to test using the sphere around the camera method. Here is what I was able to get with scattering set to 0.0002 and scale set to 80:

Here are the settings in the Blender plugin:

Then when I tried to replicate the same settings in V3 standalone I get this:

Here are the files:

fog-test2.blend

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v3-fog-test.ocs

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Thanks

[Goldorak]

Buy offline activation with addition to regular license or upgrade from 2to3?

If you buy v3 or or update from v2 after the beta is over.

[Dmi3ryd]

Goldorak thanks.

[Notiusweb]

Here is a video of the multi-GPU viewport lag I had referenced. It compares V3 vs V2.

https://vimeo.com/152060121

[cfrank78]

Here is a video of the multi-GPU viewport lag I had referenced. It compares V3 vs V2.

https://vimeo.com/152060121

THANK YOU! I hope this problem gets solved very soon!

By the way - the offline activation block for alpha and beta is one of the worst YOU HAVE TO BUY IT, GIVE US OUR MONEY ACTION ive seen in a long, long time!

But hey - just one little point more on the list why V3 is a dissappointment for some of us.

Have a nice day - Chris!

[mib2berlin]

By the way, did you remember you are testing ALPHA software?
Not feature complete, buggy as hell and so forth.
if you don´t like to be a tester use stable version.

Cheers, mib

[Notiusweb]

by mib2berlin » Sun Jan 17, 2016 6:31 pm
By the way, did you remember you are testing ALPHA software?
Not feature complete, buggy as hell and so forth.
if you don´t like to be a tester use stable version.

Cheers, mib

No....wait...this is the Alpha...?
I could have sworn it was Epsilon...or Gamma...yeah, maybe more Gamma...

Mib, you got me thinking now, I can make a user list with issues that way the developers can see a collection of the user experience.

Anyone, what would you say is your top issue/concern.