Dear Octane Render Team (and community help),

I hereby formally apologize for all of the nitpicking, and complaining I've done to you guys about things I should have taken my own time to look up and read. I felt like a knuckle-head last night while reviewing the forums and came across some very ...

For now this is the final scene. I learned so much putting this together. Still need to find out more. Critiques are welcome.

Openexr here I come.

With the information, and fiddling I've been doing the past couple of days: the results are these.

So I downloaded the windows version of 1025_COM. PMC isn't giving me any issue. So i figured out where the problem lies. At least my PC isn't screaming at me. I'll put up my test render in the proper area. Thanks for the attention folks.

That's pretty sweet.

Very nice.

Okay. First of all, don't be ganging up on me. EVERYBODY loves Pootie! :P ...I can't help that I have remarkable, and distinguished taste.

My compute model is 1.2. I remember that somewhere I read that 2.0 is better. I'll see if i can get an update if at all possible. It just started working. Weird ...

Gotcha. thanks

Ok, at first run the new download was doing the same thing. i noticed it didn't want to light my initial scene at first then got happy, but no joy. My steps to rendering kernel approach are as thus; I see what direct lighting looks like, because that's where it is initially. Then I check out PT. I ...

As an afterthought: I wonder if my dinky GT 220 could be at the root of this. No one else seems to be having these issues. It happens in windows, and Linux...