Sorry if this has been covered already, couldn't find any post answering my question.

I'm trying to keep render times down for interiors with corners of rooms that are far from the windows, in other word a pain to get noise free. Thought portals could help me out, only to realize that portals ...

Thank you for your reply. This is the news I wanted to hear, and that you are waiting for it to O3 is fully understandable.

Last time I heard about it, Otoy's reply sounded like it was never going to be taken care of, hence my skepsism.

YES for this. Now knowing that the standalone already has this feature, it seems even more strange not to have it in the plugin. Is there some kind of issue about adding this? I'm asking since Daniel asked about this before and got a totally irrelevant response with no indication of that this will ...

Whatever the jargon, they seem to have a method that prioritizes render power to where it's needed, particularly related to light sampling.

Note that "they" are just one person. FStorm is being developed by one single person, and he claims he started with it in May 2015 so not even a year ago ...

Well you're right, but you still can't have the camera inside the fog without having am inverted sphere around it, I wouldn't call that support

So I was experimenting with fog and with some help from a friend on the Facebook Octane group (join it if you're not in it: https://www.facebook.com/groups/OctaneRender/ ) I came up with this. I'm really amazed that Octane can create this wonderful looking fog without even having official support ...

Sorry for my late reply.

I'll definately sum up my thoughts about the high pass layer and before/after images. I'll be back

It's funny because all of you talking about render speed probably missed this:
but it probably got noise free much earlier than that.

I don't know when the image was ready, all I know was that I aborted it after 4 hours :-) We're all octaner's here, we all know that it's fast :D

Anyway, as for ...

Hey folks!

A personal project of mine, made to study what makes a photo look like a photo. Found out the biggest problem I have in Octane is to get that nice "micro contrast" that many photos have, Octane renders quite often look a bit bleak (I miss some sliders for contrast etc in camera settings ...

Thumbs up, dear