I am getting the following useless view using 1.2. Version 1.1 previews fine, but is giving me an fatal error when importing a new Octane material to a material slot.

Is this build Kepler capable?

Thanks Karba,

You refer to a new build being imminent. I would love if it could include a Kepler version. Instancing would solve the last of my problems on my project. You last Kepler build is a gem, even if it is not quite fully optimized.

Anyone else want to cast in on this one?

If possible, I would appreciate a Kepler build. The 2.58e Kepler build you made was fantastic despite the lack of speed optimization. Instancing will solve the last of my critical problems on my current project.

Meanwhile, do you have a target date for final Kepler optimization? I sympathize that ...

Reading between the lines it sounds like this is Kepler compatible. Please confirm.

Great work! Excited to have instancing. If I understand instancing correctly, we will save memory, but it will cost us extra render time?

Instancing decreases render speed of whole scene by 50% or just render time ...

Group the Octane camera target with the camera itself. Now they move in unison. Set focus to auto. Now distance of target is irrelevant. This is functional equivalent of a free camera.

So I have been intensively rendering for over 9 days now and am getting a much better sense of the settings. A good portion of my renders are excellent! The best work I have ever done. So sweet not to have to wrestle with the thicket of bizarre biased render settings.

Some more queries:

Is the ...

Thank you, very, very helpful.

I have found a second frame that is problematic. Comparing the two out-of-focus frames suggests to me that Octane autofocus focuses on the foreground, not the center of the frame. However, the first frame had nothing in focus, so I am not sure about this.

Can one's focal depth setting be set wrong ...

I am experimenting a lot and getting okay results with reasonable speed. But I feel a bit lost as to how to finely tune some of the camera settings.

Specifically ISO, aperture, and f-stop. Previously, I was told that aperture affects exposure and DOF, as is true in the real world. In practice, I do ...