You're welcome. And Redshift's caustics passes are definitely even more convenient than Mantra's if you have access to that software! They do use similar technology, Redshift is just faster as expected. Also worth noting that Octane announced a couple of years ago that they are working on a new ...

Under the settings for the light casting your caustics, you can assign a Light Pass ID. You can then select this ID as a pass in the Render Target node settings and render direct and indirect lighting for that specific light. These will appear as separate layers in your EXR file and the indirect ...

It’s on their roadmap with the new PPM kernel! I can’t wait, I just hope it doesn’t take too long.

@pavlov - Caustics are possible in Octane, but they are slow and typically do not provide the kind of "hard caustic" detail you’ve shown in your example. But, a couple of tips:

+ You have to use the PMC kernel for any chance of getting detailed caustics.
+ You can usually leave GI Clamp and ...

abstrax wrote:

joenyc wrote:Does this include the new PPM kernel?

No it doesn't as you can see in the release notes.

I figured, I was just asking since I didn't see it in the release notes, but it was just mentioned as coming in the GDC talk. What's the timeline for the new kernel?

Does this include the new PPM kernel?

Thank you.

I hate to be a nag, but we haven't seen an X update to this plugin since PR8 and that version introduced a render-breaking watermark bug. I try to be patient, but we need an updated release ASAP.

Will do, thanks!

Hi I'm an enterprise subscriber, but I'm having an issue where renders that go beyond a couple thousand samples suddenly get the octane watermark on them. This has happened across multiple project files. Once it appears, any further renders show the watermark immediately upon rendering until I ...