OctaneRender™ Standalone 1.21

[prehabitat]

Rikk; what capture software did you use to make those video/gifs?

[Rikk The Gaijin]

1) Of course it affects all sub object because you have connected the same object layer to all object pins.

What am I supposed to do then? Make a Object Layer for each sub-object inside my OBJ? If so it's very time consuming and not very practical

2) When you click to obj mesh, Octane starts render this mesh which is not using any object properties. Yo have click on object map node

If you notice, after I clicked on the OBJ, I clicked back to the Object Layer, and it stopped working.

[Rikk The Gaijin]

Rikk; what capture software did you use to make those video/gifs?

It's a free tool called GifCam
http://blog.bahraniapps.com/?page_id=21

[Karba]

1) Of course it affects all sub object because you have connected the same object layer to all object pins.

What am I supposed to do then? Make a Object Layer for each sub-object inside my OBJ? If so it's very time consuming and not very practical

2) When you click to obj mesh, Octane starts render this mesh which is not using any object properties. Yo have click on object map node

If you notice, after I clicked on the OBJ, I clicked back to the Object Layer, and it stopped working.

1) It is the same as you make single material and connect to all material pins and try to set different colors.
2) You clicked on the object layer, not on the object map node.

[Rikk The Gaijin]

1) It is the same as you make single material and connect to all material pins and try to set different colors.

I get that, but it feels like you have to create a lot of new nodes, just to check/uncheck the visibility... I mean, wouldn't be better if we had those options in the OBJ properties by default?
This is my opinion, let's see what other users think of it.

2) You clicked on the object layer, not on the object map node.

My bad. But still a bit confusing, if I click on a tab and that doesn't respond, it might be "technically" correct, but it feels wrong... At least to me.

[Karba]

1) It is the same as you make single material and connect to all material pins and try to set different colors.

I get that, but it feels like you have to create a lot of new nodes, just to check/uncheck the visibility... I mean, wouldn't be better if we had those options in the OBJ properties by default?
This is my opinion, let's see what other users think of it.

2) You clicked on the object layer, not on the object map node.

My bad. But still a bit confusing, if I click on a tab and that doesn't respond, it might be "technically" correct, but it feels wrong... At least to me.

Usually you don't need to hide/unhide/whatever all objects at your scene. Just several ones.

[roeland]

Alembic from Houdini(sphere falling to floor) doesn't work in this build:
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/xs2i3nddw5aqx1o/output.abc

P.S maybe problem in "/" - houdini's name conventions for objects

This file uses a feature which wasn't implemented yet in 1.21. The files should load fine in the next version.

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Roeland

[Rikk The Gaijin]

Usually you don't need to hide/unhide/whatever all objects at your scene. Just several ones.

Actually I do. My workflow in Octane 1.2 is to create a Geometry Group node, import all my separate OBJs and plug them in, so if I want to isolate one specific object, I just click on it. I was hoping, in 1.21, to have an easy way to do the opposite, keep all but one (or two, or whatever I need). In 1.2 what I do is unplug the unwanted OBJ nodes from the Geometry Group, it's not a pretty way, but it does the job.
Of course I can continue doing this in 1.21, but I thought Object Layers would have made the workflow faster and easier, but unfortunately, having to create even more nodes doesn't seems very helpful, at least for me.

Cheers.

[abstrax]

Usually you don't need to hide/unhide/whatever all objects at your scene. Just several ones.

Actually I do. My workflow in Octane 1.2 is to create a Geometry Group node, import all my separate OBJs and plug them in, so if I want to isolate one specific object, I just click on it. I was hoping, in 1.21, to have an easy way to do the opposite, keep all but one (or two, or whatever I need). In 1.2 what I do is unplug the unwanted OBJ nodes from the Geometry Group, it's not a pretty way, but it does the job.
Of course I can continue doing this in 1.21, but I thought Object Layers would have made the workflow faster and easier, but unfortunately, having to create even more nodes doesn't seems very helpful, at least for me.

Cheers.

We can populate the pins of the object layer map node with some default object layer nodes if that would help you.

[xxdanbrowne]

dumb question: where is the menu to import alembic files?