Thank you both so much. I'm coming from Redshift, so I haven't figured out where all the Octane buttons are yet...

Please see the attached simplified taillight project file and thanks for the great info and resources!

Hello all, and thanks for reading.

I'm trying to dial in the look of a taillight for and please see below for where I'm currently at.

Taillight not right.png

My current setup consists of an emissive white material applied to the "bulb" geo and a transmissive red material applied "bulb casing ...

Right on Grimm I'll give it a try. Do you notice a difference in Octane performance when you use your 980 for monitors as well as rendering vs the 460 for monitors and the 980 for rendering?

Hey V' thanks for the reply. You're certainly right about the RAM on the 680 so that would be a consideration when building scenes. Is there an appreciable difference when using a dedicated monitor card in your setup?

So I did some basic math based on the assertion that Octane scales linearly relative to total CUDA cores. The GTX 680 has 1536 CUDA cores which when added to the 5120 CUDA cores of 2xGTX1080's equates to a 30% increase in CUDA cores. Would that equate to a 30% increase in render speed?

Hi all. At present I'm using 2 GTX 1080's and am contemplating putting back in my old GTX680 as the dedicated display video card in the hopes that it would increase render performance. Would the setup above create an appreciable increase in render performance?

Win10 64 | 2xGTX1080 | i73930 ! 64GB