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Hi,

I'm having an issue with the shadow catcher. It works just fine in the live viewport, but when I go to render it disappears completely. Any idea what's going on?

My setup is Octane standalone 1.10

Max Plugin 1.10

GPU: GTX 570

Here are screenshots illustrating the issue. Exact same settings, but the shadow catcher disappears when I press render.



Live Viewport - Shadow catcher working and appearing







Render Viewport - Shadow catcher disappears

Also, the output for the render was set to PNG, so as far as I can tell it should work. Amy ideas?

I'm still having big issues with this. I believe it is a bug to do with my environment image. It's not just the shadow catcher, render behavior changes dramatically from the live viewport to the final render. For example the final render takes much longer to do and is also of a lower quality when it reaches the same amount of samples. The lighting behavior is also different. This is not just the fault of this scene. I can reproduce this from scene to scene as I change my environment image. It's also not just the environment image itself, as I can reproduce it with other environment images too.

Attached is a max file with all associated assets. Please let me know if you notice a difference between the live viewport and the final render.

https://www.wetransfer.com/downloads/c3 ... 549/3cc3d3

Environment image bug

Another scene attached below. Simpler and easier to understand. Different environment image used this time as well.
Download Link: http://we.tl/ZQS8xmVHFW


Live viewport



Render

princedragoncok wrote:Environment image bug

Another scene attached below. Simpler and easier to understand. Different environment image used this time as well.
Download Link: http://we.tl/ZQS8xmVHFW


Live viewport



Render

Yes. This is a bug. It will be fixed in next version.

Hi Karba,

Is octane standalone 1.11 meant to fix this or do we have to wait for Max plugin 1.11? The updated standalone version did not solve the problem. Thanks for you help.

princedragoncok wrote:Hi Karba,

Is octane standalone 1.11 meant to fix this or do we have to wait for Max plugin 1.11? The updated standalone version did not solve the problem. Thanks for you help.

It will be released next week.

Great, thanks for letting me know.