OctaneRender™ 4 RC 5

[boeing727223]

Hi abstrax, nope, I am using the Standalone. I import the .obj (figure, hair etc). Save the file, and when I relaunch the scene I lose my greyscale images for Opacity. I reload them all and save the file. I then close and relaunch the file. This time around the greyscale images stayed. This has been going on since RC4 at least. I have been using Octane since probably 2012 and never seen that happen. The obj loads with the Opacity greyscale maps on import. Not sure if something happens to the greyscale images after the initial save and close of the file. The actual greyscale image .jpg map remains, it just changes to an Alpha map.[/quote]
Hmm, sorry, but I wasn't able to reproduce the issue here. The Octane scene below just loads the same way after saving of the project as the OBJ file was loaded initially - the opacity texture is loaded as greyscale texture and not as an alpha texture. If you could give me a scene and instructions to reproduce the problem, I will investigate again.[/quote]


Thanks abstrax, the scene now seems to load with the greyscale image intact in the Opacity channel now. I'll try to recreate the scenario and send a scene and instructions at that point. Thanks a bunch!

[coilbook]

please fix gpu count for 3ds max RC4 it still shows too many GPUs even though I have 20
Also I have 1 card just for denoising. Do you count it as 1 of 20. If you do then it is not fair. We cannot use actual rendering card for denoising because vram is full and it always says that it doesn't have enough memory to denoise. There should be 20 cards for rendering and 1 more for denoising with free vram /.

If you've got a device that is only being used for denoising it is still being counted. So what exactly is your setup, how many GPUs are used on the slaves and the master for rendering and how many GPUs are used on the master for denoising?

Hi
Even when I use total 20 GPUs where one of them is for denoising still getting an error too many GPUs. I attached the image. Thanks

[neonZorglub]

please fix gpu count for 3ds max RC4 it still shows too many GPUs even though I have 20
Also I have 1 card just for denoising. Do you count it as 1 of 20. If you do then it is not fair. We cannot use actual rendering card for denoising because vram is full and it always says that it doesn't have enough memory to denoise. There should be 20 cards for rendering and 1 more for denoising with free vram /.

If you've got a device that is only being used for denoising it is still being counted. So what exactly is your setup, how many GPUs are used on the slaves and the master for rendering and how many GPUs are used on the master for denoising?

Hi
Even when I use total 20 GPUs where one of them is for denoising still getting an error too many GPUs. I attached the image. Thanks

Hi coilbook,
There is an issue in 3dsmax, for gpu settings common for all max scenes (when 'Scene specific config' is disabled).
The settings are not sent to Octane, unless you press 'Apply'. (you can check the actual status used by Octane with the button 'Octane Device Settings')
The work around is to enable 'Scene specific config'.
This will be fixed in the next release.
Thanks,

[Notiusweb]

M...Ma....Ma....Mat.....Ma....
Material....
Material support....
for FBX?

For FBX!!!!!??????

Yes, but that's currently work in progress. I'm not sure how well the export/import will work in the end, but we are trying at least.

Almost forgot...Would be happy to test

[funk]

Sheen is a lot darker on the universal material compared to metallic and glossy materials

[wallace]

Sheen is a lot darker on the universal material compared to metallic and glossy materials

The attachment universal_dark_sheen.png is no longer available

Hi,

Universal material is actually correct here as it has been renormalized to avoid energy gain, this will be fixed on both glossy and metallic material to match universal material in next version.

Cheers,
Wallace

[mbetke]

this will be fixed on both glossy and metallic material to match universal material in next version.

So all my glossy mterials will look different in old scenes?

[wallace]

this will be fixed on both glossy and metallic material to match universal material in next version.

So all my glossy mterials will look different in old scenes?

Not all, only when sheen is involved.

[coilbook]

i have titan xp just for denoising and i am getting this denoiserThread2 : Not enough free memory to run the denoiser. Required memory 475501728.00 MB Why? it is 1080p image Thais is 475501 GB

UPDATE: This error happens when denoiser is checked by itself. For some reason tome mapping must be checked too. can otoy tell us if we need tone mapping checked on all cards or not? Thanks

[abstrax]

i have titan xp just for denoising and i am getting this denoiserThread2 : Not enough free memory to run the denoiser. Required memory 475501728.00 MB Why? it is 1080p image Thais is 475501 GB

That's probably a bug that will be fixed with the next release: When the denoiser gets enabled/disabled on a device, it leaks a whole bunch of resources.

UPDATE: This error happens when denoiser is checked by itself. For some reason tome mapping must be checked too. can otoy tell us if we need tone mapping checked on all cards or not? Thanks

Yes, usually you always want to enable tone-mapping. You may only want to disable it for GPUs that are attached via some PCIe extender - as long as you have at least 1 GPU enabled that is not connected via the PCIe bus. I.e. there needs to be at least one GPU that is enabled for tone-mapping.