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The Linux version of OctaneRender™ for Blender plugin, 64-bit.




The bundle consists from two parts:
1. OctaneRender™ Server
2. Blender - OctaneRender™ edition.

The first part (server) should be run on the same computer as the second one..
After the server is run - you can start rendering (or open a rendered view) from inside Blender. Before the very first rendering you should fill in the server address (only 127.0.0.1 at the time), login and password (your license key info) to activate the server. After the first rendering the server will remember this activation info, and you will not need to enter it again.

You should use only OctaneRender materials inside Blender scenes - the plugin knows nothing about Blender specific materials and textures (about any Blender nodes, generally speaking).


FIXES AND NEW FEATURES SINCE LAST RELEASE

• LiveDB material is now set to current active Blender material.
• Simple workaround of nodes arrangement in node-editor after getting them from LiveDB. Nothing complex, as this is completely the Blender node-editor's responsibility to have the "Arrange nodes" function, so I will not spend too much worktime on some more complicated things here...
• Fixed the bug affecting RGB colors of materials taken from LiveDB.
• Added extract command line key to Blender installer.
• Minor improvements and bug fixes...

Installation:
- Just run the installer.
- If you need to run the OctaneServer - run it as daemon:
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Blender Octane Edition - v2.4 beta Linux (128MB autoinstaller file)

Nice, works very well, so far.

Thank`s!
All works properly, so do not write anything

does not work render region (border)

Feels like the Linux version works faster than windows'. The driver detected my card as a GK104. First time it shows up in blender like that

Just doing some more playing around today and noticed that OctaneServer doesn't appear to respond to the ctrl-C signal. If I want to stop it, I have to kill it. When it crashes with the executed illegal instruction error it doesn't stop either and I have to kill it then too. ctrl-C doesn't do anything.

If it helps with the executed illegal instruction bug, I saw today when I quit Blender it crashed. But I'm not sure if it crashed before I quit or because I did quit?

Hi,

Impossible to install it here, double clicking the file doesn't do anything

Running on Ubuntu 12.04 lts, any idea or tips to share please ?

Edit : ok found... I had to type in terminal to install it

now my second problem : run the octane server as daemon, the provided command line doesn't seems to work

Hi, try this:
Cheers, mib.

Thanks !

Do I have to do it manually each time I reboot ? Is there any simple way to automatically do it at startup ?
I'm no linux guru (as you may have noticed)... I've googled this question and only found complicated (for me) answers

Please a last little help to make my day

That depends a little bit on distribution / desktop environment.

Easiest one:
If you're using (x)ubuntu, open a terminal and enter "gnome-session-properties", you should see a menu where you can create new autostarts. You don't need to use the "&" in here, thats only to start a programm in the background from the terminal.