I am really interested in purchasing a licence but I have some problems and questions.
1. I have been testing on the demo and I managed to make a few nice renderings but then the performance of Octane seemed to deteriorate. I started having image textures disappearing or refusing to load completely, Octane crash on voxelizing or when adjusting settings, slow display getting slower or unresponsive, etc.
Is the problem more likely to be with the graphics card (GST240, 2GB, 112 cores) or the obj files or maybe the Octane itself or drivers? (The Device Manager says I have cuda driver version 3.02 and cuda runtime version 3.00 installed)
Are these kind of things maybe fixed in the upcoming demo version?
2. Sometimes Octane says that it cannot load a texture but it doesn't say which one. Which image formats can Octane use? Can incorrect image texture format be a reason for crash?
3. All materials load initially as glossy materials. Is it possible to make them load as diffuse instead?
4. Octane doesn't load the image textures automatically with the model. I need to load each texture separately. Is this just the way it is or am I doing something wrong?
5. It is a bit difficult to adjust the camera angle in Octane. Is it somehow possible to import a specific camera position I like from the modeling software?
6. I am only able to get daylight OR background image (as texture environment) at the same time, one or the other? How do I get these simultaneously?
7. Are emit lights available in the demo? How?
I need to get at least these solved as I don't want to lose this great software. Thanks a lot for your answers.
