Hey Beppe,

Since "A free version of the Octane X standalone App is available exclusively through Mac App Store" but Octane Classic is broken on the App Store is there anyway we can get a functional download that doesn't require a studio or enterprise account (or at least an ETA on when we can ...

A reliable, well understood set of tools may not be flashy, but they also don't crap out unexpectedly when the heat is on, or require lots of additional late-night R & D for each new project.

Sure, sure. Caveat emptor.

But it also seems like this would've been really good advice for Otoy to ...

We're obviously going to disagree, and I have no intention to convince you.

All I can say is that I'm deeply frustrated with Otoy because, at least where I teach, students are not going to be able to run out and buy Apple Silicon nor is the college going to replace Mac Pros that were supposed to ...

Depends on what you're doing. M1 is great for layout, lighting, lookdev and static renders (I'm not going above 4K). It is my go-to nowadays especially with electricity prices rising (arm64 is cheaper to run) and lower temperatures make it more comfortable to use during a heatwave.

For larger ...

This is absolute insanity.

We've gone from there maybe being feature differences between AMD and Apple Silicon to AMD being abandoned entirely.

Octane X held such promise that I went out of my way to make sure my old trashcan Mac Pro could limp along and crank out a few decent renders. When it ...

You'll see the supported platforms if you read Standalone post. Intel macs are not having denoiser.

Not quite. The standalone post says Fixed denoiser not working on Intel Macs. (fourth bullet point under "Changes since PR13").

And denoiser is indeed working— at least on the MacPro— with the ...

Thanks, Beppe & aoktar. PR 14 is working like a treat so far. It's very nice to have a functional renderer (and also to know what's going on).

Only possible minor issue I found is that in standalone there's still no checkbox to enable/disable denoising. Seems to work just fine enabling/disabling ...

We were promised transparency.

Can we get any update on the devs on what's going on? Are we waiting on Monterey 12.3? The rumored March 8 event? Apple to unveil the successors to the 2019 Mac Pro?

It's been months now with PR12/13— months of a broken (purposely borked?) renderer with mostly radio ...

The way I read the whole quote...
Octane X 2022 will primarily be optimized for native Apple Silicon - and as a head's up, by 2023 we may have to release features only for pre-Apple Silicon hardware as Apple's new GPU features and capabilities become supported only on Apple Silicon devices.
..is ...

Appreciate the transparency, but waiting to be transparent until after people upgraded to MacPro is certainly not a good look.

What it seems like is that the current developmental roadmap isn't just prioritizing Apple Silicon but is actively working against the machines Octane X was supposed to be ...