Well Shoot - any plans to expand Octane to other graphic cards? I don't think I would have a choice of cards on a new Mac Pro....

-rich

Well not all terrible as I am planning to buy a new Mac sometime this year. I was just on apple looking at the Mac pro. They use ATI Radeon graphics cards... Now bear with me as I am not technical at all but can Octane run one one of these machines?


Thanks!
Rich

Hey Abstrax,

I have an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS wuth 512 MB ram
Is that good, bad?

thnx,
rich

Beautiful Work!

Can you tell me what your Hardware set up is? I'm on a Mac 3.06 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo and I'm wondering if this is powerful enough to make renders like that!


thanks,
rich

Where is the HotPixel Removal in the Demo version?

thnx,
rich

Hello!


I'm playing around with the demo version of Octane on my Mac.
The Test Suite files work fine and any simple objects I create in Blender work as well but anything complex seems to choke Octane - Is this because it is a demo version?

Also in Blender you can assign different materials to ...

Hello!

I have been testing out some render options for Blender. I have 2.56a and I've been playing woth Lux Render. Now I'd like to give Octane a try but the only export option I have in Blender 2.56a is "Export LuxRender Scene" nothing else... I have tried to unselect Lux in the addons but no luck ...

Ah thanks!

I downloaded and tried installing - I got an error, see the attached screen shot... Any suggestions?

thanks,
rich

Hey Radiance!

THank for the reply

I'm running OSX 10.6.5


The Error is:


Process: octane [26793]
Path: /Applications/OctaneRender 1.022 beta2.2 Demo.app/Contents/MacOS/octane
Identifier: org.refractivesoftware.octanerender
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [115 ...

Hello!

I just downloaded the demo but it keeps crashing when I start up.
This is my system setup:

Mac
Intel Core 2 Duo
3.06 Ghz
4GB Ram
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

any suggestions?
Thanks,
rich