OctaneRender® 1.024 beta 2.48 TEST (win) [OBSOLETE]

[pixelrush]

seem to have a small issue with window refreshes.
stopped a render, open another from recent list, do you want to save -no = black screen but with usual import/voxellising popup --> at end refreshes and runs ok, material window refreshes with the first view update.
HTH

a material with a portal gets an icon in the outliner - very nice but its elliptical? rather than round not a biggy now if only an emissve mat could have a distinctive glow icon...

[ribrahomedesign]

memory display. Abstrax said that now the memory display shows the available memory ,
but that cant be true . with my GTX 285 i could easily render project up to 900mb of
the 1000 mb available. now octane tells me i only have 1033 mb of 1500 available.
that's almost 500mb missing somewhere .(no other application running )
that must be a bug .
Rico

[ROUBAL]

I have just tried with a small scene : first impressions are not good :

1 - The new refreshing way is slow. It looks like Octane has lost its responsiveness and is less interactive : several seconds to see a material modification in the render screen. A fast refresh is also useful when rendering big scenes : it is an indications that Octane is actually rendering.

2 - I confirm that Hot pixel removal doesn't work.

3 - fps information is really missing and doesn't allow comparisons with other releases. It is also usefull to estimate rendering time at n samples per pixel for example.

I am going to test it with my heaviest scene...

[pixelrush]

>The new refreshing way is slow.

Perhaps there should be a slider to set the screen refresh time? 1 - 100s

>indications that Octane is actually rendering.

How about my mini traffic light idea?

edit: added some pics. 1 issue cant reproduce atm -sorry

[Elvissuperstar007]

memory display. Abstrax said that now the memory display shows the available memory ,
but that cant be true . with my GTX 285 i could easily render project up to 900mb of
the 1000 mb available. now octane tells me i only have 1033 mb of 1500 available.
that's almost 500mb missing somewhere .(no other application running )
that must be a bug .
Rico

+++++10000

[Elvissuperstar007]

portal works only in windows or curtains can be?

[pixelrush]

portal is intended for windows and skylights. you put a rectangular plane covering the opening and give it a portal material. normal faces out I think [correction: - its in] ...its like a concentrator/accelerator for the paths

[ribrahomedesign]

for portals ,does that mean i have to place a plane in to the window hole or can i apply the portal to the glass ?
Rico

[ROUBAL]

New tests :

- png Alpha images don't work : No transparency in transparent areas (Checked with paths tracing and PMC). Very annoying bug, because no transparencies brings us back in the very early age of Octane and means Not usable ! Please look at the renderedimages below.

- Loaded a big scene (8.7 Millions faces triangles) and attempted to relink a scene of around same weight with modified geometry : in 2.47 test it relinked with missing objects and broken materials. In 2.48 test it crashes Octane at the end of relink process.

For the memory amount displayed, according to what displays EVGA Precision monitoring software, it looks +/- correct : EVGA Precision displays an amount of 160-208 (fork of values seen with various scenes)used on each GPU even when idle. I got with a big scene 2400/2872 on my 3GB cards.

[SamCameron]

I don't know what you are saying, I tried everything and I get the same results with the portal whatever I do, I tried to put the plane inside the house, outside the house, fliping normals, with different lighting setups and nothing works, can somebody provide a REAL example of how this works in Octane? because I cannot make it work.