I saw your Fstorm version too, really great. In my opinion the light and colour balance were far more natural in the Fstorm render.
I think Fstorm will have fully overtaken Octane for Max when the commercial release is finished, based on a comparison of development history and customer interaction I ...

Hi Jim,

Many thanks for your consideration to this feature! Appreciate it!

Hi Jim or Azen

Do I take it the lack of a reply means that it is not achievable by the Octane team.

AMD Firerender now enters the fray.......currently free whilst in Alpha! You snooze, you lose in this game!

Jeez......just checked the FStorm facebook page......astonishing! What a development rate!! Definately had my eye off the ball on that one!

Interesting to hear gary......some of our guys are pushing to trial it and i must confess i was blocking them initially in a hope to move to Octane after v3. I dont have to describe my dissapointment over the last 6 months with Octane Max development.

I have heard similar good reports from a ...

As above, invaluable for finer light detailing and product shots.

Good one, thanks for that.
I've just checked - looks like it's 3ds Max itself is screwing this up... Just an example. The normal of this light plane (in 3ds Max system) is (0, 0, 1) - that is positive along Z (in 3ds Max viewport it is marked by normal pointer line of the light planes). So during ...

Oh dear, starting to think Rob you could be right , there is that feeling that since Otoy bought Octane it has been 'Autodesked'.
Waste of a great engine if it goes that way

Purely speculating, but in releases it says (test) and is available to users who have not paid for the upgrade, also it is not in the official download section yet.
I hope when it is an official release that we have a lot more information on the current status quo and the future of the plugin ...