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Blender 3.6, Octane add-on crashing at render
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2023 12:37 pm
by Sursouth
Hi.
A. Windows 11
B Nvidia RTX 4080 (laptop edition).
C 32gb of RAM
D Driver: 545.84
F Octane Plugin 28.3 beta
G. Blender 3.6.4
I Octane active and server too. New>Octane Default Startup
Trying to render an initial scene with the cube, it just shows a black screen and crashes If I use the escape button.
I can also see the Kernell preset tab saying "path not found." I can use the viewport, though. I can navigate the scene.
Thank you
Re: Blender 3.6, Octane add-on crashing at render
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2023 3:38 pm
by grimm
I suspect that it's because you haven't set up the render node yet. What I do is to, once I have switched over to Octane as the renderer, change the editor type to the Octane Kernel. Select the "Quick-Add NodeTree" button. This creates the kernel nodes so Octane will render (you can change the kernel type in Render Properties panel under the "Octane Kernel" and the "Kernel" dropdown). This should fix your issue.
Jason
Re: Blender 3.6, Octane add-on crashing at render
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:44 pm
by Sursouth
Thank you!
I followed your advice (attachment), but I get the same behaviour: the camera renders on a checked pattern background; if I cancel, Blender crashes.
Thank you
Re: Blender 3.6, Octane add-on crashing at render
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2023 4:24 pm
by grimm
Are you using render region? There might be a bug in that, but I haven't tried it yet. Also they just released a new version for the plugin, might work better for you.
Jason
Re: Blender 3.6, Octane add-on crashing at render
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2023 4:08 am
by grimm
I installed the new version and I was able to get it to crash on me, just like it did for you. All I did was to hit F12 to render and it didn't display the render and eventually Blender crashed. It would also crash when I hit escape to stop the render. I did some more testing and it appears to be an issue with how the scene is setup, or in this case not setup completely.
I think I know what the issue is, the camera needs to be initialized. As long as I hit the 0 (zero) key on the number pad to look through the camera, I was able to render and not have Blender crash. If you do not, Blender will crash on an F12 render. I suspect that the Octane camera is not setup until you look through it or create a new camera.
Jason
Re: Blender 3.6, Octane add-on crashing at render
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 10:41 pm
by linograndiotoy
If you're using the addon version, please be aware Render Region is not supported yet (as stated in the release post).