OctaneRender for Carrara 3.08.03.42[Stable and Test]

[protovu]

Yes, absolutely. In fact, there is no way to attach an OOL modifier to a light that I can see. Only to objects or groups. The tube is part of a group. I experimented with using the modifier on the individual objects, sub-groups, and groups.
No difference.

[protovu]

Hi Simon,
Please see attached file which demonstrates the shadows not being toggled off using OOL modifier.
Best,
Rick

[protovu]

Simon,
I had inadvertently un-ticked Alpha Shadows in the Render target. Should be ok now, thanks.

[protovu]

Hi Simon,

Not sure on the status of displacement.

I was doing a fairly basic render, and couldn't figure out why is was slowing to a crawl.
Turns out the Displacement channel of a Brushed Metal Material was the culprit.

Is this a bug , generally with displacement, with a fix in the works, or specific to the particular material?

Best,
Rick

[PhilW]

I've not used that specific material but I have rendered stuff with displacement and not noticed a dramatic fall-off in render speed, in fact I have been very impressed at how Octane handles displacement.

[leesim]

hi, not sure im posting in the proper page, im using 3.06.04.35 version of the plugin with carrara 8.5.1 build 64bit, 8GB ram, windows 10 pro, amd quad core 2.31Ghz. nvidia geforce Gtx 750Ti, latest nvidia drivers from 25th september 2017, my problem in carrara is since plugin is installed i cant use the modfiers tabs or drop down list for objects, i can if i uninstall the plugin how would i sort this maybe install previous plugin version?

[Sighman]

Hi leesim, and welcome.

I am not aware of any issues using modifiers with the plugin. It may be that there is a conflict with another plugin that you have installed. It can be quite a challenge to figure out when you have a lot of plugins installed. You could try installing a new copy of Carrara in a separate directory and install just the octane plugin to see if that works. You could then start installing other plugins until modifiers stop working. Until I know which plugin is in conflict with octane there is not much I can do.

[Sighman]

New update posted to this thread. This is a test version of Octane for Carrara 3.07 please report any issues found with this release here.

This is a small showcase project demoing some of the new features:

showcase_3_7.zip

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[protovu]

Hi Simon,
LDB is working really well now, thanks.

[PhilW]

Sighman, great thanks. I'm off to play with the new Instance stuff, that sounds cool.