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Otoy® is proud to announce the availability of a new version of OctaneRender® for 3ds max®: Version 1.0 beta 3.00a.
The world's fastest and most feature-rich unbiased render engine that integrates completely into Autodesk® 3ds max®.


This version is not stable, don't use for important projects.

3ds max® Version Requirements

This release will only work with 3ds max® Versions 2010, 2011, 2012 & 2013/ 32bit & 64x / Base & Design on MS Windows operating systems.

Notes regarding features/functionality

OctaneRender® for 3ds max® implements all functionality of OctaneRender® standalone inside 3ds max®.
Any feature that the Standalone edition supports is supported by the 3ds max® plugin.


COMPATIBILITY AND OCTANERENDER STANDALONE REQUIREMENT

To run OctaneRender® for 3ds max®, you need to also have an activated OctaneRender® Standalone copy activated on the machine you wish to install the plugin onto.
You cannot purchase and use only the 3ds max plugin and use it without also owning an activated copy of OctaneRender® Standalone on your machine.


HOW TO PURCHASE LICENSES

Go to our online shop here: http://www.refractivesoftware.com/shop/

If you do not own an OctaneRender® Standalone Edition License yet:
You can purchase both the OctaneRender® Standalone Edition and the OctaneRender® for 3ds max® Edition as a reduced price bundle, purchase the bundle priced at 179€

If you already own one or more OctaneRender® Standalone Edition licenses you want to pair the plugin with:
Purchase an "OctaneRender® for 3ds max® v1.0 Beta License" priced at 99€

You can also purchase a 3, 5 or 10 pack of OctaneRender® for 3ds max® licenses,
just like OctaneRender Standalone Edition packs.


INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

At this moment there isn't automatic installation. You have to copy files to 3ds max manually.
Please read the installation text file included in the download ZIP file archive.


OCTANELIVE®

Just like OctaneRender® Standalone, The 3ds max® plugin product also needs an additional octanelive license and be activated on a machine.
This has to be done in the plugin interface panel in 3ds max, and is covered in the included PDF manual.
It can only be done after an OctaneRender® Standalone license is already activated on the machine in question.


NEW FEATURES SINCE LAST RELEASE:

• Extended animation support. New option autoupdate movable proxy.
• Octane commands customize.
• Material convertor supports standart falloff and noise textures.

BUG FIXES SINCE LAST RELEASE:

• 3dsmax crash after shut down.
• static geometry is not updated in animation.

KNOWN ISSUES:

• Incorrect lighting distribution (random bug).
• Incorrect material preview in case render is not running.
• Don't support old GPU models.

DOWNLOAD

We have 4 separate archives available for download, for Autodesk® 3ds max® 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Each archive contains the manual and installation text file, and both 32bit and x64 versions of the plugin,
so you only need to dowload one archive for your 3ds max® version from the following download links:

3ds max® 2010: http://www.refractivesoftware.com/plugi ... _3.00a.zip (50MB ZIP File)
3ds max® 2011: http://www.refractivesoftware.com/plugi ... _3.00a.zip (50MB ZIP File)
3ds max® 2012: http://www.refractivesoftware.com/plugi ... _3.00a.zip (50MB ZIP File)
3ds max® 2013: http://www.refractivesoftware.com/plugi ... _3.00a.zip (50MB ZIP File)


Yours,
The OctaneRender® Team.

Thank you!

i have some problem with extra small values in material editor. for example i cant set 0,001 or smaller for roughness - only 0.002. but difference betwen 0 and 0.002 is render is very large.
is this limitation of Octane or Max?
it is possible to remove this limitation?

roughness: 0


roughness: 0.002

irrealix wrote:i have some problem with extra small values in material editor. for example i cant set 0,001 or smaller for roughness - only 0.002. but difference betwen 0 and 0.002 is render is very large.
is this limitation of Octane or Max?
it is possible to remove this limitation?

Check for 3dsmax preferences. There is a parameter for digits count.

Karba wrote: Check for 3dsmax preferences. There is a parameter for digits count.

Thanks a lot!

How far back on the gpu model does this support? 400 series? I have a 280 now or will it support older gpus later?

As I'm writing this im doing a test render of a shot that's about 4 sec long (so 100frms), using 49 movable proxy objects along with some static AND moving objects of focus! the 49 objects comprise of 3 characters, although only one of them is animated talking the other 2 are just Midly animated! rendering with 3.00a on dual 590 (so 4 gpus) i have FAN blowing the gpus to help in cooling, the temps are between 86 72 to 86 degrees!

rendering using DL and AO @ 720p @512samples the PC is taking between 58sec to 1minute to render each frame!!!! all 3 characters have clothing with Clothsim.

according to time estimation its gonna take about 1h and 38 minutes to finish the whole 100frms!

I dont know what else to say except...THANK YOU VERY MUCH OTOY and Especially Karba for such wonderfull support!!!

i will post the animation in te WIP section but i'll let you know here as soon as it finishes rendering!

Nildo

rob72inmo wrote:How far back on the gpu model does this support? 400 series? I have a 280 now or will it support older gpus later?

It support 4xx and 5xx series. no 2xx, sorry

Great release, it fixing the UI problem, the falloff conversion works great now, I notice that the composite node is not yet converted, is there a way to implemented it?

Hey Karba,

Thanks a lot, it is great update, however;

I wanna assign a hotkey to open octane viewport but when I assign a key, it doesn't work.

thnks...