OctaneRender® for 3ds max® v3.07 - 4.44 [OBSOLETE]

[coilbook]

Hi Paridie,
can you import this AUR phoenix sim and render it. For some reason strange bubbles appear around liquid. (Please create 2 spheres and name them foam and splash )

[coilbook]

HI Paride,
we have a master PC with 2 video cards and 4 slaves with 18 more video cards. When 3 slaves are on (16 video cards total) render time is 47 seconds per frame. But once we add another slave to total of 20 cards our render time becomes 1 minute. The scene is 6 Gb and it has phoenix liquids. Does it mean that network gets clogged up with so much data moving around or it is something else. I just never saw this before where more video cards makes slower rendering. Thanks

UPDATE ON THIS PROBLEM: It appears if the forth slave is on, rendering will slow down to almost no movement of the progress bar. As soon as slave is closed green bar speeds up. Not sure why. This PC always worked great. Also no errors at all.

[Elvissuperstar007]

cpu memory not work

[coilbook]

HI Paride,
we have a master PC with 2 video cards and 4 slaves with 18 more video cards. When 3 slaves are on (16 video cards total) render time is 47 seconds per frame. But once we add another slave to total of 20 cards our render time becomes 1 minute. The scene is 6 Gb and it has phoenix liquids. Does it mean that network gets clogged up with so much data moving around or it is something else. I just never saw this before where more video cards makes slower rendering. Thanks

UPDATE ON THIS PROBLEM: It appears if the forth slave is on, rendering will slow down to almost no movement of the progress bar. As soon as slave is closed green bar speeds up. Not sure why. This PC always worked great. Also no errors at all.

UPDATE:

it seems that phoenix wetmap is the reason for all these problems including the post i made in the bug section and slow processing times. Wetmap export must be tuned off if wetmaps are not going to be used otherwise it gets slow processing times

[paride4331]

cpu memory not work

[acc24ex]

are we ever going to have a simple 1 click solution for baking maps?

I'm into transferring to unreal engine, and it's crappy to do it manually..

[paride4331]

Hi acc24ex,
how would you like it in Octane?
Regards?

[acc24ex]

Hi acc24ex,
how would you like it in Octane?
Regards?

well use something that max already does, bakes in diffuse/glossy/normal whatever and ideally I'd love an option to load it into standard materials.. but just baking anything by pressing one button would be great - last time I tried it was a mess and time consuming.. where's the latest info on the baking process?

[ramone163]

Maybe it is time for new release? No?

[Goldorak]

Maybe it is time for new release? No?

Yes. With 3.08 and OSL, which is being actively worked on. OSL UX has taken a bit more time than planned to integrate into the Max plug-in workflow, but with this work nearly done, going to 3.09 (with AI denoiser) will be fast, since that is mostly handled in the core engine with little work on the plug-in side needed.