Cinema4D version 2023.1-[R7] (Obsolete stable) 25.11.2023

Wed Oct 25, 2023 9:03 pm

My render instances don't seem to be working at render time. When I send my scene to the live viewer I get 50 mil polys and a frame renders in about 3 minutes. No problem there. But when I send to the picture viewer my polys go up to 99 mil and the render times skyrockets to over an hour.

Any ideas? Attaching the scene here.

C4D 2024.1, Octane 2023.1 Beta3 R4 (issue persists with 2023.1 R3 and post fog is rendering different)

Wed Oct 25, 2023 9:45 pm

aoktar wrote: Saving problem must be related with your side, not us.

No. This is caused by Take system and its own render setting per take. And not saving is problem but rendering using custom Ocio from Take. Many times it ignore Ocio. There is need to manually set it even if it is already set.

EDIT : It looks like the same interface issue as Custom AOV - different thing is displayed but something different is internally executed.

Thu Oct 26, 2023 6:13 am

At the moment in C4D 2024.1.0, it looks like adding an Octane Object tag to an Octane Scatter source/surface object set to Surface distribution—not Vertex—results in a crash. See attached gif.

This issue does not occur in C4D 2023.2.

Fri Oct 27, 2023 10:22 am

This scenefile (See attached file) instant-crashes the moment I start the render, if camera motion blur is on.

I've tested it in both C4D V2023 and C4D V2024 using Octane 2023.1-[R1], Octane 2023.1-[R2] and the older Octane 2022.1.1-[R4] - it's all the same thing.

I'm using X-particles in the scene as well, but completely removing this makes no difference. It still crashes instantly, taking C4D down with it.

Link to file: https://we.tl/t-IlUHReYpWA

Also, on a side note, for this same project but in a different project file I've noticed that camera motion blur if the camera is following a spline using the "align to spline" tag is completely messed up, I really can't explain what is happening other than everything becomes one big blurry mess. EDIT: This seems to only happen if the spline being used for the "align to spline" tag is generated using the tracer object.

Fri Oct 27, 2023 11:41 am

nycjunglist wrote:At the moment in C4D 2024.1.0, it looks like adding an Octane Object tag to an Octane Scatter source/surface object set to Surface distribution—not Vertex—results in a crash. See attached gif.

This issue does not occur in C4D 2023.2.

OctaneObjectTagCrash-c4d2024.1.0.gif

I'm checking it, source object having zero triangles when a tag droped over for a moment. I think it's related to performance changes of C4D 2024.

Fri Oct 27, 2023 12:04 pm

Hi,
with latest version I don't get the denoissed beauty pass in my exr.
Both options are checked. The denoissed reflection passes etc. are there but there is only the normal
beauty pass.
Did I miss something here?

regards
Mike

Fri Oct 27, 2023 1:36 pm

gohmn wrote:My render instances don't seem to be working at render time. When I send my scene to the live viewer I get 50 mil polys and a frame renders in about 3 minutes. No problem there. But when I send to the picture viewer my polys go up to 99 mil and the render times skyrockets to over an hour.

Any ideas? Attaching the scene here.

C4D 2024.1, Octane 2023.1 Beta3 R4 (issue persists with 2023.1 R3 and post fog is rendering different)

I've a bit reduced the clones for spikes for testing. As you can see here we have same amount of triangles in LV and PV. Be sure the option is checked in Octane Settings window. And having less triangles on spikes that would make your life easier.

Sat Oct 28, 2023 7:07 am

Never noticed this option "Shared mesh for render instances"
Should be on by default? What it does exactly?

Thanks

Sat Oct 28, 2023 11:16 am

thanulee wrote:Never noticed this option "Shared mesh for render instances"
Should be on by default? What it does exactly?

Thanks

Yes ON by default. One shared mesh for original and copies. Otherwise we create two meshes in total

Mon Oct 30, 2023 7:27 am

aoktar wrote:
gohmn wrote:My render instances don't seem to be working at render time. When I send my scene to the live viewer I get 50 mil polys and a frame renders in about 3 minutes. No problem there. But when I send to the picture viewer my polys go up to 99 mil and the render times skyrockets to over an hour.

Any ideas? Attaching the scene here.

C4D 2024.1, Octane 2023.1 Beta3 R4 (issue persists with 2023.1 R3 and post fog is rendering different)
I've a bit reduced the clones for spikes for testing. As you can see here we have same amount of triangles in LV and PV. Be sure the option is checked in Octane Settings window. And having less triangles on spikes that would make your life easier.

Thanks Aoktar,

I did toggle that off and then back on again. Not sure if it helped but I did manage to start a render with the proper amount of polys. It seemed to be an intermittent issue without a discernable cause.