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i am used to r18 but recently started working with 19.

to my surprise and great joy, now i can actually render in viewport and still have the gizmos visible. thats kind of an game change for me. i love this feature.

couple of questions:
is this an octane introduced feature or something that r19 allowes for?
currently i have to start the live viewer which turns white and the viewport starts being rendered in. this is a bit clunky. can i somehow start the viewport live viewer without having a floating LV open?

best,

Hi,
glad to hear that you are loving the recent Viewport Rendering option.
It is not limited to R19, but it’s a specific feature added in 3.08.x/4.xx plugins.
Instead of loading the Live View, you can call the Octane Dialogue, and enable the Viewport Rendering from the Options menu, just like in Live View, but with a more compact interface: ciao Beppe

fantastic beppe,

i honestly thought this may have been due to the r19 viewport improvements.
very glad to discover its due to octane.

really a complete game changer for me. with the denoising and speed improvements working in octane comes closer and closer to working with a realtime game engine.
i am still suffering from instability and daily crashes but very excited about the future of octane.

thanks

bepeg4d wrote:Hi,
glad to hear that you are loving the recent Viewport Rendering option.
It is not limited to R19, but it’s a specific feature added in 3.08.x/4.xx plugins.
Instead of loading the Live View, you can call the Octane Dialogue, and enable the Viewport Rendering from the Options menu, just like in Live View, but with a more compact interface:

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ciao Beppe

Is it possible to make it separate button?

I'd like to bump this thread, because a dedicated button, i.e. "Render to Viewport" would be super helpful. I docked the Octane Render menu bar just above the viewport and it's relatively quick to click on things and start a render in the viewport, but I do like to use keyboard shortcuts. The only command that can be used is "Start Octane Render", which unfortunately always opens a separate IPR window as well. So, if there'd be a button to just activate and run rendering in the viewport, that'd be great.