Octane Render 1.022 beta2.2 RC2 available [obsolete]

[mib2berlin]

I'am sorry.
To think like a german ingenieur with less knowledge about English it is hard to explain.
But i think i got you.

Man this was difficult, mib

[andrian]

Texture gamma input seems not working.

[radiance]

Texture gamma input seems not working.

noted, we'll check it out.

Radiance

[andrian]

I am getting a little slow down with RC2, it gives me 2.48 samples vs 2.95 samples on beta 2.1 on a simple scene. All manually imported and textured, its a simple interior room with no textures, lit by sun/sky, on GTX 480.

are you sure everything is configured identically ?
the scene file format is not compatible, so you need to recreate it, and you might have differences.

also keep in mind that this version needs to do a bit more work than 2.1,
it has recursive textures, which is quite a bit of additional/complex code to run through on each ray.
In fact, i was expecting an bigger slowdown, quite happy with the results.
I think some scenes might be a bit slower, and others a bit faster depending on how you configure your mats.

Radiance

This slow down happens on a scene with no texture at all and diffuse shaders only. Light comes from HDRI but I try sun/sky and default light - pure white and its the same..a little bit slower

[SheepFactory]

Any idea what might be causing the loss of realtime interactivity on my end? 2.1 runs silkys mooth.

[radiance]

Any idea what might be causing the loss of realtime interactivity on my end? 2.1 runs silkys mooth.

you mean the sunsky updates ?
it's because 2.2 is a major rewrite of large areas of the render kernel for multi-gpu.

there are some multi-threading synchronization issues that cause the delay in updating the sunsky currently,
which we're fixing.

Radiance

[cgbeige]

ah, ok. It's in pathtracing with filtering off.

and directlighting is ok ?

Radiance

weird - tested with a new scene and it's fine in both methods. I can't test with the scene that was troublesome before because I can't open scenes I saved with dual GPUs on OS X (but you know about this).

One thing that has never worked but I forgot to mention: if you change the resolution of the image, it resets your subsampling settings.

[ltchest]

with the benchmark scene, im getting 16 M/sec using a GTX 480 + 2 x GTX 280. Thats awesome

[SheepFactory]

there are some multi-threading synchronization issues that cause the delay in updating the sunsky currently,
which we're fixing.

Radiance

You guys rock. Thank you for the update.

[face]

It is a good idea to have the reported errors as a list in a forum?

Maybe one under "Commercial Product News & Releases" and a mirrored one under " Plugin Discussion/Support"
They should have only read access.

So the user can read the reported bugs and know, his one is reported before.

face