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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

• New 2.23.2 engine.
• New "Cube map" camera modes added: now you can render different faces of cube map separately.

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 - 8.4 (2.74) (59.9MB autoinstaller file)
Octane Server - 2.23.2 - 8.4 (10.7MB autoinstaller file)

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

Octane Server DEMO - 2.23.2 - 8.4 (9.2MB autoinstaller file)

For network slave and daemon please download standalone installer here:
http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=46125

Thank you!

Many thanks!

Octane Server has an issue in this release, it does not exit properly. i can consistently reproduce it.

If I start it (even without blender), it sits there, using 40 MB of ram ... so thats fine. If I rightclick the icon in the windows miniicon tray, it does not shut down properly ... it starts growing extremely quickly in memory, eventually using up all memory within seconds (I shot it down with windows task bar at 25 GB+). There's some sort of massive memory leak instead of shutting down after a right click.

voon
Did you have the same issue with 8.3 version?

Hi Jim .. I quickly installed 8.3 to check and it does not happen there .. it's an 8.4 issue.

voon wrote:Hi Jim .. I quickly installed 8.3 to check and it does not happen there .. it's an 8.4 issue.

Then it looks like not the plugin issue... As the only change in this OctaneServer version made - it was just built with the last 2.23.2 Octane SDK. No code changes in server were made, only Blender edition code was improved to integrate the new cube map camera modes of 2.23.2 SDK.
I will check it tomorrow, thank you for report.

When adding a texture to the world settings in the node editor
I get a script error.

HDR background is rendering without any problem though

Next version HERE.