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Following on from success of the original Vizpack: Products there are now versions for both Vray and Octane (as third party renderers within modo).

With the help of John Serris (AKA Funk) all of the materials in the original ...

Pixelrush: don't be so paranoid :shock: No one is trying to "spoil" Octane. My motivation for doing my test was simply to compare the capabilities of three different rendering solutions, with no preconceptions as to which would be "better". If Octane lives up to its promise I will be delighted.

radiance wrote: So once octane needs 2000 samples, when MLT and ultimately bidir are added, you will have a 10-15x speed-up

Radiance

Now that is something to look forward to I really hope that Octane can do this at some point in the near(ish) future!

Are you disappointed with Octane Chris_TC?
Would you like your money back?
Everyone is happy here except you for some reason.

I think Chris is just being reasonable actually. In my test that I linked to earlier Octane on a GTX470 is about 25% faster than Maxwell on an i7 980X - so extrapolate ...

I own licenses for Modo, Octane and Maxwell, and I did a test on the Luxology forums a few weeks ago (before I know anything about Luxology conducting their own tests), you can see the results here:

http://forums.luxology.com/discussion/topic.aspx?id=48218

I approached the testing with a ...