Will we see plugins released soon? I'm still not seeing 1.1 for Blender.

Yes we are porting EmbergenFX to Metal for iOS and macOS and Vulkan on Linux. Same with sculptron which is windows only. Both of these are going to be compiled with the same tools we used for Octane X. We’ve already tested EmbergenFX on Mac Pro in bootcamp and it runs great.

Dang. Well, even ...

Weezer wrote:Same here – and to try Embergen when the macOS build lands later in the year. Exciting times!

Has this been confirmed? I was wondering if this was going to be a thing. I’d be so happy if it is.

Goldorak wrote:

hobirchina wrote:I bet there will be no software after 6 days, only a very long post, which was mentioned last time.

I’ll take that bet

Maybe I’m cynical, but I sort of had that doubt as well. Thanks for the reassurance, unless you’re just a terrible gambler.

It looks like the main conversion functions of the code work fine. I think the updates that need to be run are just to bring the user interface code up to date with the 2.8x changes. Once Octane X comes out, I might take a look at updating it myself (although, I'm no Blender Python dev—basically, I ...

Having seen the ray-tracing talk, my best guess is that this is the tech OTOY needs to release Octane. They’ve likely had a beta they’ve been building against for some time now, but the API changes have been pushed off to Big Sur. That would explain why the NDA was needed for the private beta. Now ...

There is a Ray Tracing in Metal presentation on Friday at WWDC. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what we're waiting for.

Well, there’s a public 10.15.6 beta out, so maybe we'll see something built for that.

Looks like the first public beta for 10.15.5 is here.

That’s awesome news!