Ah, that makes sense when you explain it like that. Thanks!

So the previous 700 series Kepler cards are still better for rendering that the new 900 series Maxwell?
Why is that? The number of cuda cores? Number of shader units?

It is incredibly rare for Poser to crash whilst rendering in Octane. The only reason I can think of is that one of your rendering cards has failed, or has overheated. Have you tried monitoring your card temperatures with GPU-Z?

Paul

Yeah your right. Throttled down the video cards so they don't ...

Occasional, non-repeatable crash. Always crashes when Octane is rendering. Cuda.Log was empty (0kb w/ no text) so I didn't upload that.

Windows 7 64bit
Ram 24GB
GTX 780 Ti-3072MB/GTX 470-1280MB
Nvidia Geforce 335.23 driver version
Poser Version: 10.03.26510
Octane Plugin version 1.50

Hope all this makes sense. I'm doing all this from memory, so my terminology (and steps) may be a little different from reality.

That makes perfect sense. Thank you

Paul suggested adding some turbulence to the bump. Would I do that by just changing the image file I am using for bump to ...

You are probably at the stage of needing to watch some tutorials to find out how everything fits together with Octane. Suggest visiting http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=51 , reading the on-line plugin manual, and absorbing all the other info available on the forum.

Paul

This manual ...

Stick with specular. Maybe add some turbulance to the bump to break things up a little.

Sorry newb here. Use smaller words please :?

Do you mean change the node type to specular?
Or leave it as glossy but adjust the specular settings within?

How would I add turbulance? Or rather where in the ...

Trying to get the materials right for this model.

Octane imports it Glossy by default but as you can see the colors are all washed out for some reason...
So next I tried Defuse, the colors are much better but now there is almost not reflection at all.
The third image is the effect i am going for ...