Chiming in with my own benchmark results for a GTX 560 Ti:

MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II (1 GB)
[beta 2.43, v266.66 drivers]
Direct lighting: 7.64 to 7.83 megasamples/sec
Path tracing: 1.87 megasamples/sec

I guess you should take it as a compliment when someone asks you suspiciously, "Are these really renders?" o_O

@harshcg: bazuka was talking about the old script; my version ignores the unit size selector. Have you tried moving your cameras out of the octane_scale_group? Looking at the scene you have posted here, I can see that they are grouped up with the car model.

See, we *have* to rescale the scene ...

@bazuka: even if people were to work with lightyears or parsecs (Rhinoceros can handle these, and I'm not kidding you), Maya wouldn't care less. All we have to do is to implement a very simple centimeter-to-meter conversion scheme, like I already did, and we're golden.

@harshcg: try getting your anim_cam out of octane_scale_group; otherwise, this camera would get scaled down not once, but twice.

@harshcg:

Two words: scale issues. *sigh*

Try exporting your model with the modified version of bazuka's script I have attached. It's just a quick hack, it wasn't properly tested, animation would probably fail, I take no responsibility whatsoever, yadda yadda yadda; but it gets me pretty pictures ...

vanlicht , you're right. This is exactly what I meant.

bazuka , version 2.3a is still doing it wrong; I believe that the exportScale function can be safely reduced to the following code:


global proc exportScale()
{
group -n "octane_scale_group"; xform -os -piv 0 0 0;
setAttr "octane_scale ...

2. unit still doesn't work. CM or Meter both have the radiating black marks.

That's because your objects are being scaled up by a factor of 10000.

The current state of affairs is this:

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5955/maya2octane23scale.jpg

All hail the Hundred Meter Box ...

As a matter of fact, all you have to do is to scale anything coming out of Maya by a factor of 0.01. Centimeters are used by Maya internally, so switching your scene's units to meters and creating a 1x1x1 m box would result in a 100x100x100 unit box being written to an OBJ file, and therefore in a ...

I was experimenting with maya2octane today (bought Octane only a week ago), and I was surprised to see that depth of field stayed very deep no matter how large the aperture was. It was as if I was working with objects many meters in size, while the models I was trying to render were actually quite ...