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OctaneRender for ArchiCAD plugin

Anonymous
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An announcement was made today about the development of an integrated OctaneRender rendering plugin for ArchiCAD. Details here...render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=26793.
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Earthworm
Booster
Yes, awesome indeed

Does require a CUDA enabled NVIDIA video card.
ArchiCAD 27 | Intel Xeon W-2225 - 4.10GHz | 32 GB RAM | GeForce RTX 3080 | Windows 10
Anonymous
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My prayers have been answered!

Thanks for sharing!
Anonymous
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An update video has been posted - https://vimeo.com/57255594.

There is also now a Facebook page which will contain updates - www.facebook.com/pages/Octanerender-for-Archicad/323683251070182
Anonymous
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Paul,

Looks very promising, does the archicad SDK allow you to add all of the Octane materials attributes in the ArchiCAD materials settings so that OpenGL preview can more closely match the Octane render?
Anonymous
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Hi Scott - good to see another Adelaidian here....
does the archicad SDK allow you to add all of the Octane materials attributes in the ArchiCAD materials settings so that OpenGL preview can more closely match the Octane render?
The Octane material definitions are being stored against each of their counterpart ArchiCAD materials (as parameters) - so they get saved with the scene. However it's not really applicable to copy any of the Octane material attributes back to the OpenGL preview material definitions.

Paul
TMA_80
Enthusiast
Great work Paul !

I'm quite curious about the way to affect materials from the scene it is quite particular to Octane.
( I'm however wondering about to handle materials that are not necessarly selectable from the exterior ( i.e an interior curtain ( it could be possible to do it by doing a select marquee region though )

Are you by the way supporting the marquee selection tool ?
AC12_27 |Win11_64bit|
Anonymous
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( I'm however wondering about to handle materials that are not necessarly selectable from the exterior ( i.e an interior curtain ( it could be possible to do it by doing a select marquee region though )
I expect the workflow to change from the video that I posted regarding material selection. To cope with selecting a material that you cannot click (in interior material for example), it may work better to simply have a material selection popup on the Material tab of the plugin. If may also be possible to edit materials in the ArchiCAD "Material Settings" window, although it is a modal window which creates a lot of problems.
Are you by the way supporting the marquee selection tool ?
At the moment, if more than one element is selected, the material window does not populate. But I am changing this to display all materials from all selected elements.
paulk wrote:
( I'm however wondering about to handle materials that are not necessarly selectable from the exterior ( i.e an interior curtain ( it could be possible to do it by doing a select marquee region though )
I expect the workflow to change from the video that I posted regarding material selection. To cope with selecting a material that you cannot click (in interior material for example), it may work better to simply have a material selection popup on the Material tab of the plugin. If may also be possible to edit materials in the ArchiCAD "Material Settings" window, although it is a modal window which creates a lot of problems.
Are you by the way supporting the marquee selection tool ?
At the moment, if more than one element is selected, the material window does not populate. But I am changing this to display all materials from all selected elements.

RE: the marquee tool

I think he means in reference to what the Render engine (real time or actual render) actually processes and renders.

As in, does it respect the geometrical boundaries as defined by the marquee tool and shown in the 3D window.
This is very critical to ArchiCAD users who use the Marquee tool a lot and for whom it's a great time-saver (and one would imagine an even bigger time and resources (read: CPU/GPU, Memory)-saver :- especially when working with Real time/Progressive render engines like Maxwell's Fire)

And he's also referencing the Maxwell for ArchiCAD plugin which for the longest time would respect the MArquee tool boundary and then just when they release the latest version with the Fire capability (for real time preview of the 3D Window similar to what your plugin does), they broke the Marquee tool capability - which kinda makes it useless for us and even defeats the whole purpose since even actual renders export the entire scene as opposed to just whats defined by the Marquee.

The hope is that they'll get this sorted sooner rather than later and hopefully Octane won't suffer the same crippling debilitation.
Anonymous
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This is very critical to ArchiCAD users who use the Marquee tool a lot and for whom it's a great time-saver (and one would imagine an even bigger time and resources (read: CPU/GPU, Memory)-saver
Thanks for the clarification.

Are you saying you need to render the marquee area because a full render would take too long to run?

Paul