Hello, guys.

At 0.1 sun size on OctaneRender and on GIMP v3.x: Amazing caustics is MAGIC for downscaled to 500x500 [email protected]% zoom* from 8k-pixel@100% zoom.

* - should use GIMP to open EXR FP32 image.

Best regards.

Hello, guys! :)

VERY IMPORTANT for avoid any confusion due to weak precision of noises+colors of JPEG or of PNG image type:
-after completed rendering, should choose "EXR" image type with uncompressed, and with FP32 for insane color depth (this competes perfect true color at in the real life ...

Hello, guys. :)

Can you remember oldest "Octane Render" benchmark (April 2010 :lol: ) - here ? :)

But this original "Wall" scene is edited (changed material from "glossy" to "specular") by me in 2014. ;)

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// Out of wall @ior 1.509 and @dispersion coeff 0.006 on glossy floor@d ...

Hello.

I got 1341 OB running Win 10 x64 22H2:
- i7-12700KF@stock
- RTX 4090 non-OC version@all stock speeds with Studio 576.02WHQL (HQ)

AMD Radeon GPU support? No, nor Intel GPU, unfortunately.

Hello, guys. :)

Rendered DENOISED image using Path Tracing kernel without "caustic blur" by OctaneRender Standalone 2025.1 with a GeForce RTX 4090 GPU.

-Standard diamond (since 2014 :lol: ) at 8.179x sun size:
clear@ior 2.4166,@abbe nr 22.73 at 8.179x sun size_PT denoised@80-diff,160-spec_150k ...

Hello, guys.

Watch about "Variable vs almost non-variable caustics at... the real life" but not on computer:
https://youtube.com/shorts/j1Awp-IA3C4

Best regards.

Hello! :)

I watched "Polarized Lighting" about "OTOY 2019 GTC Slides and Presentation Materials" through Youtube but newer OR has still no polarization support for 6 years ago... :(

I used to rotate the sunglasses with orange lens for variable intensity of sky color, for variable reflection of ...

@KeeWe: Do you use "Open Image Denoise"?

Hello, guys. :D

Nice release! :mrgreen:


I tested this new #octanerender with 2 "new" benchmark.orbx files with default tile and new 128-tile (but !!CAUTION!! - new 128-tile samples due to up to 9.5GB VRAM used as very high :O :) ) at Path Tracing kernel only on my RTX 4090@all stock speeds ...