Caustics on glossy materials are actually very fast and good looking. But on refractive they are relatively slow and on pmc it needs >1000 samples until they are as bright as they should be. Also on pmc it looks like it darkens refractive materials a lot, most with a high exploration_strength or ...

I know, thats why I tested it because I didnt expected pmc to handle this scene that great!

Hi,

the first scene took 7 hours to render on my gts 250m.

The second scene took nearly the same except some hotpixels from the first pure pathtracing samples.

PMC seems to not generate any hotpixels at all

Hi,

ive not used octane for a year or so because meshemitters worked very slow and there was no solution for complex lightning. After ive seen that finally pmc is implemented, a gave it a try again ;-)

So, I loaded my glass-scene into max and exported it to see the outcome, well pmc is great! :D ...

Hi,

when I saw the offer to get Octane for 50€ I had to buy it. First I did was to put my Stargate I modelled a few years ago into Octane. And yes, I'm really impressed.

I have some questions about Octane.

First: It doesnt look like Octane supports smoothinggroups, right?

Second: How can I ...