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OctaneRender™ for Blender plugin. Windows x64 version.


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. To stop the server - just right-click its icon in the tray.
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 the LiveDB import bug.

After starting OctaneServer it will take some time before the LiveDB tree and LiveDB material previews will be available from Blender - as OctaneServer caches the LiveDB data from remote server right after starting. But only the materials groups tree will be re-cached every time after server start, LiveDB material preview images will be cached only once - so only the very first OctaneServer start will need some more time before LiveDB tree will be available in Blender.


DOWNLOAD (both distributives must be reinstalled, they depend on each other)

Blender Octane Edition - 7.2 (2.73 (59.1MB autoinstaller file)
Octane Server - 2.21.1 - 7.2 (10.5MB autoinstaller file)

DEMO is available. Use the same Octane edition of Blender for DEMO version of OctaneServer.

Octane Server DEMO - 2.21.1 - 7.2 (9.0MB autoinstaller file)

The OctaneRender™ for Blender 2.21.1 - 7.1 Win [OBSOLETE]

Render Passes does not work.
Activate Render Passes and try to render a simple cube in any kernel mode.
It will render the Combined pass, but other passes will not work. (at least for me)
Final render finished information will be displayed but it will never finish the other passes.

Testing with a simple cube.
If I set the Preview pass type: Wireframe, Material Id, etc..
activate the Render Passes AND Octane Render Layers I will get the passes but not the combined pass.

I think this occurs because there is some kind of loop in Render Passes preview pass type: Combined..

Ide wrote:Render Passes does not work.
Activate Render Passes and try to render a simple cube in anyTesting with a simple cube.
If I set the Preview pass type: Wireframe, Material Id, etc..
activate the Render Passes AND Octane Render Layers I will get the passes but not the combined pass.

I think this occurs because there is some kind of loop in Render Passes preview pass type: Combined..

You will never see the Combined pass if it is not chosen as preview pass. This is made just to be able to replace the Combined slot in image editor by any other pass if needed.
I will check the other issues, thank you for report.

JimStar wrote: DEMO is available. Use the same Octane edition of Blender for DEMO version of OctaneServer.

Still no demo for OS X?

Next version HERE.