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Hi everyone,

I haven't posted anything in a looooong time, sorry guys.
But I'm glad to be back, especially now that I've upgraded to v2 !!!
Octane is definitely my FAVOURITE rendering software.
Congratulations to the programming team.

Now, back to the subject of this topic : I don't know if anyone has already done or tried this, but I just discovered the following trick by chance = it enables you to have a very comfortable Frame Rate while working in 3DSMax Viewport AND Rendering at the same time.

I discovered this while working with instances, but I guess it could be useful too for particularly large single models in any given scene.

Forgive me if this is something "basic" but I couldn't resist sharing this with the community.


Cheers to all,

Madcoo

Have you tried max 2014? It's miles faster than 2012 with instances. And the same with octane if you tick the movable proxy box.

No I didn't have the opportunity to try Max2014 thanks for the info

I also discovered that hiding your entire scene also works great, still as long as you don't tick "moveable proxy" - quite useful if you have a heavy scene and want to tune your camera angle comfortably.

select all cars - right click - object properties - display as box. no need to display mesh for octane render.
or put them on a layer and let get properties from layer then you can toggle between dummy and mesh via layer properties.

cheers
boris

Hey thanks, this is great !
... and much easier than my "fussy" technique

Cheers

use Forest Pack Pro or Multiscatter...

Hi Gabriel,
Yes indeed!
I bought CarbonScatter but it "felt" totally uncomfortable, and kept crashing constantly...
So I bought ForestPackPro, and it's just GREAT!
Next week I'm going to work on a project that includes a big car-park, and I'm definitely going to create a distribution map for the cars, this way I'll be able to randomize them quickly and easily.