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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

• New 1.50 engine.
• Blender version 2.70.
• Bug fixes...

Installation:
- Just run the installer to see its command line keys.
- If you need to run the OctaneServer - run it as daemon:
DOWNLOAD
Blender Octane Edition - v4.3 beta Linux (115MB autoinstaller file)

Yay!! But blender will not run.
I have libboost_filesystem.so.1.54.0 already installed so I'm not sure why it couldn't find it?

I don't know if it's another problem or if it will be fixed once Blender is running, but I also get this error from OctaneServer:
Thanks, looking forward to playing around with the new version.

Jason

grimm wrote:I have libboost_filesystem.so.1.54.0 already installed so I'm not sure why it couldn't find it?

You can use Blender's install_deps.sh script if you need.

grimm wrote:I don't know if it's another problem or if it will be fixed once Blender is running, but I also get this error from OctaneServer:

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jason@gemong bin$ ./OctaneServer 

OctaneServer v. 4.3

Octane: ERROR reading Octane license data
Octane: no active license found

Thanks, looking forward to playing around with the new version.

Just enter the license info from inside Blender again, and that's it.

Thanks Jimstar,

It didn't help, same error. I tried to link the old version to the new one but it didn't help either. I don't have any problem running 2.7 from the Blender web site. Is it a static compile error?

Jason

grimm wrote:It didn't help, same error.

What does mean "didn't help"? What did you do? Do you have now the 1.51 libs installed and available in your system?

grimm wrote:I tried to link the old version to the new one but it didn't help either. I don't have any problem running 2.7 from the Blender web site. Is it a static compile error?

No, this is not the plugin's error. It is exactly how Blender's install_deps.sh script works - I did not change anything in 2.70 Blender release regarding this. Moreover, starting from this 2.70 I just stopped to fight with its static linkage bugs and patching this script in every release - now I just use the plain version of this script how it is given by Blender developers.
And taking into account I build this special version of Blender itself against all static versions of boost libraries - it seems that this Blender's dependency installing script just builds some of dependency-libraries dynamically linked against boost...

Why do you not have this problem with "stock" 2.70?.. May be different reasons: Blender developers may not use their own install_deps.sh script when building the releases (and use some especially prepared set of patched and statically linked libraries), or more likely some features (the libraries for which this script builds dynamically linked to boost) may be disabled in "stock" build... As in these builds I enable as much features, as possible, to not get here again the complaints "why is it disabled?"...

Ah, that might explain it. I think I did see a post on the boost library issues, maybe that's the problem? I don't remember where I saw that, I can check around and see if I can find it.

I can't find now. I will keep looking, it's bound to pop up somewhere.

Hi grimm, try to make a symlink called lib.1.51 to your 1.54 lib, should work.
I am not testing this.

Cheers, mib.

Thanks Mr J

I'll try later

Regards
MC