Wow!! Lots of cool announcements lately, save something for Siggraph too 8-)

Having render passes available in Octane is fantastic, but how does it affect the GPU memory? Do you render all the buffers sequentially or simultaneously? In case of the latter, I imagine you can't do more than 2-3 passes ...

We've been waiting on two things:

1) Launch of the Amazon G2 instances i(which happened in November)

2) Final release of Octane 1.5 (shipping within a week), with ORBX package import/export supported in SA and plug-ins. The ORBX packages are required to effectively add cloud rendering to the ...

Thanks abstrax, this release feels like Christmas and Easter combined to the second power

Yep, at least the release candidate. It will take more than a month to get it stable.

The feature list for this one off the top of my head: displacement, hair, MB, region render, rounded edges, local asset DB & network rendering.

cheers,
Thomas

Wow, very extensive list for a first RC! Is there ...

Thanks Karba. So the entire scene is under 1.2 GB, utterly impressive. Did you make the clouds with displacement mapping or is it an HDR map?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLyhma-kuAw&feature=share&list=UUqPmc3i0TE0oyetAKlv1Z2A[/youtube]
Render time is about 4-5 mins per frame on 4 Titans.
1280x720.
~3.000.000 Objects,
Displacement,
Motion Blur,
SSS Fog.
:shock:
Holy moly, that looks like real life footage!! Octane is ...