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Hi all,

I'd like to initiate a little mini-competition, there are no prizes, just eternal fame and glory in our website gallery.
The new 2.1 RC has built-in turntable and daylight animation, no scripting or anything needed, you can render the whole animation straight from the octane UI while the scene stays in your GPU.

if you render nice turntable animations (or daylight animations), and compress them to .FLV (flash video) format,
we can put them in our website gallery, and if we have enough, we can make a special videos gallery section too.

So i'm hoping to see some nice animations soon

Radiance

PS: Philbo is working on a tutorial on how to produce video files using free tools from the sequence of PNG images that octane writes when rendering animations.

Sounds like a fun idea - your on

i was trying to do some turntable animations but the turntable menu was glitched. I can't choose the destination for my file and many other features were disable too.

franklau wrote:i was trying to do some turntable animations but the turntable menu was glitched. I can't choose the destination for my file and many other features were disable too.

can you explain ?
if the window is flickering/behind the render, just move it a bit to the right.
you just start with the 'set' button and choose an output png file with the file dialog.

then you optionally change the settings and hit render and wait till it's finished.

Radiance

radiance wrote:you just start with the 'set' button and choose an output png file with the file dialog.

then you optionally change the settings and hit render and wait till it's finished.

when i finished all my settings, the render button is not activate (in gray). To my understanding you don't preset camera path, or basically hit the render turntable button and it will do it on the coordinate where you place the object. when i get back to work i will see if i can screen capture the problem for you to see.

franklau wrote:

radiance wrote:you just start with the 'set' button and choose an output png file with the file dialog.

then you optionally change the settings and hit render and wait till it's finished.

when i finished all my settings, the render button is not activate (in gray). To my understanding you don't preset camera path, or basically hit the render turntable button and it will do it on the coordinate where you place the object. when i get back to work i will see if i can screen capture the problem for you to see.

the render button gets activated after you have set your output png image file.

Radiance

The new beta and new animations works great !
Stable and smooth like never before
About 37 minutes on my 8800 to generate a turntable 360 deg 25 fps.
Is there a way to avoid the sparkling/shimmering glass effect (Same as in Rad's Morcielago animation) ?

DigitalDouble wrote:The new beta and new animations works great !
Stable and smooth like never before
About 37 minutes on my 8800 to generate a turntable 360 deg 25 fps.
Is there a way to avoid the sparkling/shimmering glass effect (Same as in Rad's Morcielago animation) ?

no, only by increasing the samples...

Radiance

Im in as always.

could be anything yes??

Radiance,
There is one bug in 'daylight simulation animation'.
The time goes forward and jumps and goes backward and ......
If you want to see it, try with standard benchmark scene.
I made an avi file and checked it, but it's too large to upload.