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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

• Fixed emission node bug.
• Minor fixes...

Installation:
- Just run the installer to see its command line keys.
- If you need to run the OctaneServer - run it as daemon:
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Blender Octane Edition - v2.8 beta Linux (128MB autoinstaller file)

Hi,

When installing blender octane in the terminal I get this error:

Error: Could not load binary data file '/usr/lib/octane.dat'ERROR: Program executed illegal instruction.. terminating


When trying to render in blender I get this message in the console(I have a GTX 460 card):

ERROR: CUDA device 0: Failed to find a CUDA binary matching compute model 2.1


I am also not sure how to start the render server in linux

Thanks for your help!

Hi, I install Octane Bender manually with:

octane_blender_1 -e

-e extract the package to a new folder "Blender Octane"
Copy all in "lib" to /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib, depends on your distribution.

The other folder include Blender and the Octane Server.
Start Server from a terminal with ./Octaneserver
./Octaneserver & will start server as daemon.
Start Blender Octane the same way.
If you close the terminal the application is closed too.

This way you have control where all files are.

Cheers, mib.

Thanks for your help mib!

When using -e I get this message:

paul@paul:~$ '/home/paul/Downloads/octane_blender_1.20.2-2.8.run' -e
head: cannot open ‘../..//home/paul/Downloads/octane_blender_1.20.2-2.8.run’ for reading: No such file or directory

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
mv: cannot stat ‘./usr/README.txt’: No such file or directory

I am using ubuntu 13.04 / 64 bit i7 / nvidia GTX 460

Hi belloq, i am very sorry, forgot to put sh in front of command.

sh /home/paul/Downloads/octane_blender_1.20.2-2.8.run -e

Cheers, mib.

Thanks for the update but I still get the same message.
Maybe I am missing some libraries?

Hm, looks like a path problem.
I am in the root folder, where the .run is.
May this is the problem.
JimStar fixed all the library problems we had in earlier versions and you get other error messages.

Cheers, mib.

Tried with now everything is working

Just another update on the OctaneServer crashes, if it helps. It looks like the server acts differently when it's in use vs. just waiting. I was in the middle of using it when it crashed with this error message:
At that time Blender had these error messages:
The Blender errors are probably just because it could no longer talk with the server, but I thought I would add them in to be sure.

Thanks,

Jason

Looks like the settings for the Octane camera don't get applied to the final render (F12). In particular the setting for the hot-pixel removal which I can get working in the viewport render but not in the final render.