Ok mr knowlege here are some extreme thoughts from some people who wants to go further from their nose...

ok lets see...

Very nice tip Roubal I'll chek this way

Yep, try to be more creative and don't waste your precious time on those boring scenariors...ohh by the way do you have electric power in Slovenia?

Ok thanks for the reply. For the record those images are already redused from 4000x4000 pix to 1500x1500 pix. A quick thought is octane to use compressed images in order to handle more complex senarios because I had to import 4 characters with the same amount of tex ram in a heavy scene...Keep the ...

Ok I see, so octane is decompressing the image file, but is there a work around in order to keep it compressed so the amount of render file low?

Hi, I would like to know why a small file of texture becomes a huge amount of MB??
See the two red circles in the image bellow.

Thanks in advance

Ok here are the results with pathtracing..
Still there is speed improovement in both cases with and without alphashadows.

Directlighting mode not Pathtracing for now
I will test it with pathtracing to.

Yes. I just open the OctaneBenchmark scene and hit render