New sneak peek of Cycles has appeared on Blender Cookie. There is some new informations and we can compare this to Octane.

http://www.blendercookie.com/2011/05/02 ... er-engine/

You can try ngPlant. Free plant generator.
http://ngplant.sourceforge.net/

Jaberwocky wrote:probably the answer with the demo version would be to render each frame,pause the render.
use the screen snipping tool in windows 7,save the frames individually and then compile them into the film shown using other software.

Heh. This is 40 sec. video. At least 1000 frames

Too dark. You can use radioactive waste to lighten this fish.

DayVids wrote:hey guys,

2 versions. a drop of water - haven't maybe got the lighting quite how I want it, but not sure I'm changing anything.

one has a surface disruption with bump map, the other doesn't.

I like 2nd version.
For the last one -it looks weird. More like quicksilver than water.

yoyoz wrote:
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/19327321[/vimeo]

[EDIT] that's pathetic, I can't make this f****g bbcode for vimeo work...
link then: http://vimeo.com/19327321

You forgot www It should be http://www.vimeo.com/19327321

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/19327321[/vimeo]

I'm not authorized to view that forum. I am running the demo version of Octane. Could you copy paste its contents please.

As for the changing opacity and the power value of the sunlight, neither gave me control of light passing through the glass.

Paste a plane with normals to inside and use ...

Interesting techniqe. Good for training.

About light. I think it is too sharp. It would look better with some diffusion but octan didn't like it.
Try some dfferent glass in windows.

No worries Steve, but you're missing an important point: I release new versions as soon as I can as every user here is considered as a tester. (...) I definitely need users having problems for fixing them.

Don't forget that if I break something important you still can roll back to a previous ...

Play with sun. I think it is too dark inside. Mayby add glass to windows(reflections make it more interesting). Work with materials(more glossy?)
And test it. Octane offers quick renders so you can do a lot of previews.