Is there a way to produce grass in Octane, either in the standalone or with the Maya plugin? (ie using Maya fur, or instances/references of low-poly geometry, or some such?) I haven't seen any shots featuring grass, which is a must if I want to use Octane for arch-viz.

Which is the more relevant for Octane? If I was gonna use Octane, do I buy a GeForce with more CUDA cores but less RAM, or a Quadro with more RAM but less cores?

Finally, is nVidia's "compute capability" they rank all their cards with on http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus a relevant metric, or ...

Currently in Maya I will create a Vray proxy then instance it thousands of times with whatever tool/script/plugin suits, then apply a Vray2sided material with a translucency map (amongst other things).

Is this workflow possible, or something similar, in Octane?