OctaneRender for Carrara 2.10.0053 [Test]

[SciFiFunk]

Sighman,

I am glad to say I'm into the animating proper now, so expect some activity on this board!

First up, some of my scenes are set up at 10% or even 1% normal size. This scene is 10%. Octane will not render the whole of the character if it's too close to the lens. I've tried playing with a few settings. Ray Epsilon helps, but it is currently set at 1E-07 and can't help anymore.

Are there other settings or is there a limit to how close Octane can render? I've not encountered this before. The grass was an extreme close up in the Ennis house video for example and was fine (at 100%).

It's not practical to convert these scenes back up to 100% (It doesn't work as a straight change for example).

Please see attached pic.

[Sighman]

Sighman,

I am glad to say I'm into the animating proper now, so expect some activity on this board!

First up, some of my scenes are set up at 10% or even 1% normal size. This scene is 10%. Octane will not render the whole of the character if it's too close to the lens. I've tried playing with a few settings. Ray Epsilon helps, but it is currently set at 1E-07 and can't help anymore.

Are there other settings or is there a limit to how close Octane can render? I've not encountered this before. The grass was an extreme close up in the Ennis house video for example and was fine (at 100%).

It's not practical to convert these scenes back up to 100% (It doesn't work as a straight change for example).

Please see attached pic.

That would be the near clip depth setting of your Camera being too high.

Near Clip Depth setting in Carrara

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[SciFiFunk]

Oh well done!

wow. nearly 5 years in and I'm still learning about Carrara options. Sorry to trouble you on that then.

I found that on the threshold of the near shot appearing (setting of 0.1), I'd get unwanted banding on the image, but this has disappeared when set to 0.

We move on then... Thanks.

[SciFiFunk]

A crash.

Select object, edit it (select all by shading domain and move it for eg), go into shader room, assign blackbody emitter from live dbase to shader, doesn't change to blackbody in viewport, hit refresh, crashes out of program.

This has happened pretty much since I became involved with the plug in. I learned not to refresh, but to close the viewport down, but it's easy to forget and the crash means you lose unsaved work.

[EDIT I can't always reproduce it, but I'm getting it a lot (70% of the time) meaning for materials editing with viewport open it's not reliable - something I would value for quicker development please].

[Tugpsx]

Did you check your autostart render option.

Auto Start

BTW are you using multiple video cards, if so be sure to check the render priority box and set priority to low or medium This is located on the Device tab.
In this case I am about to load a Howie scene which will use more then the available memory 1.6GB on the GTX480 so I unchecked it. If I left it checked the scene would not load. I can load smaller scene that will fit but this particular one doesn't.

Render priority

[Sighman]

A crash.

Select object, edit it (select all by shading domain and move it for eg), go into shader room, assign blackbody emitter from live dbase to shader, doesn't change to blackbody in viewport, hit refresh, crashes out of program.

This has happened pretty much since I became involved with the plug in. I learned not to refresh, but to close the viewport down, but it's easy to forget and the crash means you lose unsaved work.

[EDIT I can't always reproduce it, but I'm getting it a lot (70% of the time) meaning for materials editing with viewport open it's not reliable - something I would value for quicker development please].

I cannot repeat this. I've tried dozens of LiveDB materials and they all load and update in the viewport. Can you delete all the LiveDB shaders and download them again?

[SciFiFunk]

Ok thanks.

I've deleted them, "downloading all" now. I'll get back to you on the next occurrence if it happens.