How to render?

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gerry
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Joined: Thu Jun 16, 2011 8:55 am

How do I get to start a render ?

Ok I have a quadro FX 1700 and installation
was Ok after upgrading NVIDIA drivers .

I have loaded a scene file and clicked on the mesh node
and Now ?
Nothing happens, the render icon is disabled whatever i do

In my preferences I see 1 Active device ( 0 compute 11 display )
Maybe the 0 compute is the problem ?
Same problem with my laptop that has a GT 230M

this lets me think that I am missing something

gerry
Alain
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I would use an OBJ-File created with one of the 3D-Application exporters.

Kind regards.
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Daniel
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Yeah, perhaps you're not exporting a .obj?
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kubo
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check out the first video from here http://www.refractivesoftware.com/videos.html and follow those instructions. If you don't have a obj scene ready download the demo suite from here http://www.refractivesoftware.com/downloads.html.
As soon as you click a mesh node, Octane starts to render, otherwise it would tell you "no cuda capable device found" or something like it.
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gerry
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Joined: Thu Jun 16, 2011 8:55 am

Yes I was using the demo scene files in my tests

but now I have tested with a obj file exported from Rhino
and all works fine

thanks for the help

gerry
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