OctaneRender™ 3.0 for LightWave™ - Beta build 3.00.14.0

[juanjgon]

This is a new beta build of the OctaneRender™ 3.0 for LightWave™ plugin. This 3.00.14.0 release is available for Lightwave 10.1, 11.6 and 2015.3 Windows x64 and OSX.

Alpha and beta version disclaimer
In contrast to v2 we want to do the alpha and beta testing publicly, to get more feedback earlier and to have changes tested more thoroughly. The plan is to let all users with a valid v2 license use the v3 alpha and beta versions until we decide that the beta period has ended and we release the first stable v3. After that you will have to upgrade to v3 or will not be able to use any v3 versions (including alpha and beta versions) anymore.

This is an beta release, so please consider this more a test or development release which may not be stable enough for a production environment.

Beta release 3.00.14.0
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... indows.zip
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... .0_OSX.zip

Standalone version for the network rendering nodes
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... _3_win.exe
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... _macos.dmg

New features of OctaneRender™ 3.00
viewtopic.php?f=33&t=51679

How to install the plugin
- (Only for Windows) Remove all the old Octane plugin 2.2 files (octane.dll, octane.dat and the .p plugin file), or add a new LightWave installation to your system to test Octane 3.0
- (Only for Windows) Copy the octane.dll, tbb.dll and octane.dat files into you install Lightwave/bin directory. You must overwrite the LightWave tbb.dll file.
- Add the plugin to the Lightwave Layout.
- Install the custom menu bar to get access to the Octane features.


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RELEASE 3.00.14.0
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* NEW PLUGIN FEATURES:
- Support of the LWSN config file in OSX (the config file can be in "/", "/etc" or "/Applications/NewTek")

* OCTANE BUGS FIXED:
- Fixed crash when you enable an info pass while rendering PMC (see viewtopic.php?p=273892#p273892 ).
- Crash during subdivision surface calculation of subdivision level 1.
- Fixed kernel crash when a deep image file is saved.
- Fixed incorrect mapping of 2nd or 3rd UV set on displacement triangles.
- Prohibiting the multiple downloads of the same material from the LiveDB.
- Fixed saving of the SSO license and credentials file in user folders with non-ASCII characters in the path.
- Various other fixes in the SSO authentication.


Thanks,
-Juanjo

[BorisGoreta]

Hooray !!!

Is plugin working with Turbulence FD adaptive container ?

[juanjgon]

Nope, adaptive containers are not supported in the TFD SDK, as far I know.

-Juanjo

[BorisGoreta]

What does TDF library not found in "" mean ?

[juanjgon]

What does TDF library not found in "" mean ?

You need to set the path to the TFD plugin file in the plugin options panel.

-Juanjo

[BorisGoreta]

Thanks, I didn't use TFD for a while ...

[mstewart152]

Dang... I hope TFD puts adaptive containers in the sdk soon... thats almost a must have to use TFD effectively.

[juanjgon]

OK, Jascha just told me that the adaptive containers should work without problems. Can you please check it? I'll check it here also ASAP.

-Juanjo

[BorisGoreta]

Are we still required to copy voxel grid size and container size or it can be done automatically ?

[juanjgon]

Are we still required to copy voxel grid size and container size or it can be done automatically ?

You need to copy these parameters from the container. There is a bug in the TFD SDK functions used get these parameters that is not fixed yet.

-Juanjo