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Hi,

This is an production release of the OctaneRender™ 2020.2 for LightWave™ plugin version 2020.2.5.1, available for LightWave 11.6, 2015.3, 2018.0, 2019.0/2019.1 and 2020.0 Windows x64 and MacOS (CUDA). This build has been compiled using the Octane 2020.2.5 core.

Make sure to use an NVIDIA Studio driver with version at least 456.38 to use this version. No driver updates are required for macOS 10.13 (CUDA).


Release 2020.2.5.1 Enterprise subscription license
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... rprise.zip
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... rprise.zip

Release 2020.2.5.1 Studio subscription license
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... studio.zip
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... studio.zip

Release 2020.2.5.1 Demo version
https://render.otoy.com/plugindownloads ... 4_demo.zip
https://render.otoy.com/plugindownloads ... X_demo.zip

Standalone 2020.2.5 version for the network rendering nodes
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=78208


Release Notes
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RELEASE 2020.2.5.1
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* PLUGIN FEATURES AND FIXES:
- Fixed a bug in the instancing rendering introduced in the previous build


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RELEASE 2020.2.5.0
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* PLUGIN FEATURES AND FIXES:
- Fixed a problem with the enable state of the instanced clones.
- Fixed a problem with the enable state of the LW instancers.
- RTX enabled by default in both Layout and LWSN

* OCTANE FEATURES AND BUGS FIXED:
- Fixed issue causing some textures to be interpreted differently when using out-of-core.
- Fixed application crash during startup.
- Fixed SSS pass which was causing a difference between the main pass and the denoiser output passes.
- Fixed issue with scenes with render layers and alpha channel enabled causing incorrect denoiser output.
- Fixed universal camera diopter rotation to be interpreted as degrees instead of 0-1.
- Fixed broken rotation for 2D transforms.
- Fixed an issue causing a freeze when disabling RTX while tone-mapping was happening.
- Fixed issue causing some dialogs to display in plugins that use the silent activation mode.


Happy rendering,
Your OTOY Team

BTW. I know that there are several reports about problems with the multi-thread scene extraction feature (crashes, missing objects, etc.) Unfortunately, I was not able to reproduce them here, so please, if you have this problem while working with this new build, let us know, including your system specs, the LightWave version that you are using and the scene to reproduce the problem. Without a scene to try to reproduce the problem here, it makes no sense to report this issue. Thanks!

-Juanjo

Dear Juanjo,

Thank you very much Juanjo, for all your efforts, We greatly appreciate your support in the continued development of the plugin for Lightwave. You really help us keep our production line. Your support is vital for us. thank you infinitely.

Sylvain
https://5500k.fr/

+1
Lightwave still lives (ok, still isn't dead) only bec. octane and Juanjo's plugin exist.

slv wrote:Dear Juanjo,

Thank you very much Juanjo, for all your efforts, We greatly appreciate your support in the continued development of the plugin for Lightwave. You really help us keep our production line. Your support is vital for us. thank you infinitely.

Sylvain
https://5500k.fr/

Thanks for plugin update Juan, great stuff.

Also, when reading octane core fixes, some of those might be fixing those random start crashes. I'll see how it works and let you know can I find more crashes.

Hi Juan,

Sadly, this build now has a massive BUG. now, instances do not render unless you activate their instanced object/geometry.

See this scene (attached). I have cubes instanced per poly position and spheres per point. And IF that instanced geometry is OFF in Scene editor (as it should be since i don't want to render the basic planes) then Octane do not render instances either.

Please check this scene/render and fix it soon 'coz this way it's useless for scenes with a lot of cars/chairs/tables (all the stuff I use to orient instances on "short edge" and instanced geometry on polygons)...

Thanks

Lewis wrote:Hi Juan,

Sadly, this build now has a massive BUG. now, instances do not render unless you activate their instanced object/geometry.

See this scene (attached). I have cubes instanced per poly position and spheres per pint. And IF that instanced geometry is OF Fin Scene editor (as it should be since i don't want to render the basic planes) then Octane do not render instances either.

Please check this scene/render and fix it soon 'coz this way it's useless for scenes with a lot of cars/chairs/tables (all the stuff I use to orient instances on "short edge" and instanced geometry on polygons)...

Thanks

Yes, do not render the instance in this scene.
I also see more VRAM consumption than in version 2.3.1

"Sadly, this build now has a massive BUG. now, instances do not render unless you activate their instanced object/geometry." - Lewis

As far as I know, that's always been the case in LW. That's one of the nice features I saw in Blender when I was doing the sprinkles in the "Donut" tutorial. You could hide the base geometry of the sprinkles and the instances would still show up. Instances don't work like that in LW, unless I'm missing something.

smount1 wrote:"Sadly, this build now has a massive BUG. now, instances do not render unless you activate their instanced object/geometry." - Lewis

As far as I know, that's always been the case in LW. That's one of the nice features I saw in Blender when I was doing the sprinkles in the "Donut" tutorial. You could hide the base geometry of the sprinkles and the instances would still show up. Instances don't work like that in LW, unless I'm missing something.

Yes, you misunderstood, it is broken in 2020.2.5.0 and useless for archviz now and it never worked like now. It always worked same (at least since Octane 2.0 when i started using it in Lw) till build 2020.2.4.0 and 2020.2.5.0 broken it.

I sent video and demo scene to Juan so hopefully fix is not long away.

Lewis wrote:Hi Juan,

Sadly, this build now has a massive BUG. now, instances do not render unless you activate their instanced object/geometry.

See this scene (attached). I have cubes instanced per poly position and spheres per point. And IF that instanced geometry is OFF in Scene editor (as it should be since i don't want to render the basic planes) then Octane do not render instances either.

Please check this scene/render and fix it soon 'coz this way it's useless for scenes with a lot of cars/chairs/tables (all the stuff I use to orient instances on "short edge" and instanced geometry on polygons)...

Thanks

R: Octane has always been like this in any version.

It shouldn't be an Octane issue but rather a LightWave limitation...

I believe!...