OctaneRender™ Standalone 1.25

[abstrax]

Hi all,

This release fixes some issues reported for the previous versions.

Changes since 1.24

Rendering

• Fixed a bug in the environment texture projection.
• Added option to info channel kernel to allow the rendering of bump/normal mapped normals (in modes "Shading normals" and "Wireframe").

Scene and geometry import

• Improved conversion of texture transformations of older files (<= version 1.20).
• Improved conversion of environment textures of older files (<= version 1.20).
• Fixed loading of old glossy materials.

Lua

• Fixed indexing in various functions addressing pins/attributes via index (aka "...Ix()").
• Added component type COLOUR_SWATCH.
• Added new functions to module octane.file.
• Provided a more generic button dialog (PROPS_BUTTON_DIALOG).
• Replaced image label with a more flexible bitmap (PROPS_GUI_BITMAP).
• Improved octane.node.PROPS_PIN_INFO to better support dynamic pins.
• Added octane.project.getPreferences to allow access to the application preferences nodes.
• Added clearAttribute() and clearAttributeIx() to octane.node and octane.nodegraph.
• Improved nodegraph.unfold().
• Fixed leaking node graphs created by Lua.
• Fixed hang if you try to pick after render data was made non-renderable in Lua.

Other

• Fixed crash in the 32-bit Windows build during startup.

Download:

Windows
ZIP archives:
- 64-bit
- 32-bit

MacOS X
ZIP archive:
- 32-bit and 64-bit

Linux
ZIP archive:
- 64-bit

Happy rendering,
Your OTOY NZ Team

[pixelrush]

Thanks guys.

Borrowed the screws scene and the chess set texture for a wee test -
The mouse event is a little slow. Perhaps I can change a Wacom setting to make the drawing more fluid?

EDIT: seems not and I find the std win usb polling is 125hz. not sure how fast it runs with the script but 2-4x faster would be nice to have IMO. I see there are some utilities out there that gamers use to overclock polling but it seems to be a bit of a hassle for the worth of it.

Using my previous pc today coreduo + quadro570 + gtx460

[Tugpsx]

Thanks, off to kick the tires with the new scripting features.

[stratified]

Thanks guys.

Borrowed the screws scene and the chess set texture for a wee test -
The mouse event is a little slow. Perhaps I can change a Wacom setting to make the drawing more fluid?
EDIT: seems not and I find the std win usb polling is 125hz. not sure how fast it runs with the script but 2-4x faster would be nice to have IMO. I see there are some utilities out there that gamers use to overclock polling but it seems to be a bit of a hassle for the worth of it.

Using my previous pc today coreduo + quadro570 + gtx460

Yeah, it's a bit slow right now. Especially for large bitmaps. The code is not really optimized, for each event, the full texture is copied again. It's just a fad of course.

cheers,
Thomas

[lixai]

Hello,
when i'm exporting a scene with alembic from Maya 2014, i'm missing material slots. Is there something i'm missing when exporting or importing ?
here is an image showing 3 materials in maya, and only one in octane

i guess this is not a version relatet thing, i didn't use standalone in a while.
Just wanted to see how ne features ar working.

[steveps3]

More lovely features that Blender users can't use

[pixelrush]

> It's just a fad of course.

Yeah I suppose although I think that's a bit harsh
Its fun and interesting to see Lua used in creative ways.
It gets people involved, thinking of possibilities, and one thought leads to another.
Don't put in in the fad bin just yet. You are doing well in your scripting promotion.
If it was just a little more feature complete and responsive it would be a neat wee demo script.
You never know it might also come in handy for some other or related Lua mission.
What I would like to see though is our turntable,linear motion and sun transit scripts finished off and uploaded as working examples and then people can go their own way and in their own time produce some script magic. At the moment although I am interested in contributing something I am not able to participate because of my skill level.

[j7th]

Lua API Browser crash
http://abushinov.com/files/OctaneRender ... Crash_.mp4

[smicha]

Lua API Browser crash
http://abushinov.com/files/OctaneRender ... Crash_.mp4

I had the same issue when I was copying and pasting the .obj node in the node graph.

[FoolooF]

• Fixed crash in the 32-bit Windows build during startup.

1.24 wouldn't even start for me.
1.25 seems to work fine. (yay)

Thanks for still supporting us 32bit dinosaurs.