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Hello,

Octane Render is amazing engine. I got beta version, and going to buy this software.

But I have some problem with transferring scenes from Rhino; If I import scenes with few materials (up to 10) evertything works great, but when I try to import scenes with many materials (let's say 20-40 various materials), Octane imports the file, and it appears in node editor (as a loooong bar), but when I click on it (to render it) Octane freezees, when click again somewhere on the octane interface, white screen apears and program is completely freezes.

My computer: 8800 GT/AMD 2X 5600, Windows XP (fresh installed), recommended CUDA and nVidia drivers.

Big thanks for creators of this awesome Octane Render!

Peter

ps.Sorry for poor english, it;s not my native language.

Hi, this happens to me as well for larger scenes, with many textures. But its completely normal, Octane needs time to load and transfer entire scene and textures into the VGA memory, and thats take time. You may feel like Octane is freeze but its not, just wait a bit and will start his job.

Adrian, I waited for few minutes. The scene wasn't too complex, but many materials (simple, with no textures nor advanced shaders)...

Thanks anyway,
Peter

Hello again,
Little update of my observations with Octane and Rhino;

I discovered a solution for the problem with rhino and numerous materials;
I first open my file in AccuRender 3D (free for 30 days, then you need to pay something like 20 USD), and check materials layers, if there is too many useless layers I remove them and save the file .obj once again. This action made possible to load complex material rhino objects o to octane. Few days more, and i will decide to buy octne, it's cool!

Next thing is I avoid to use complicated and long file names of texture files, for example I don't use special characters. Octane doesn't like it, or there is a problem with rhino itself. Any way I can easily get rid with this issue.

I bought Octane yesterday, and I am very happy with this. Quality is great, speed as well! If anyone has any doubts - forget about them and pay for commercial version - it is really worth the price, and this is begining, you will get next upgrades with exciting MTL and Emmisive materials! Can't wait!

Have a good time with great octane!
Peter