Well, my workflow (and I think many people's workflow) involves a lot of back-and-forth between modeling, scene-building, texturing, shading and rendering. Having to take the scene out of Max to render and then return to Max to make modeling changes, and doing this over and over again, would be ...

Nope. Doesn't fit an iterative workflow.

Thanks. I'll wait.

Out of curiosity: Does anyone at all use the standalone?

Hi. When can we expect an Octane 4 plugin?

Thanks a lot to the refractive team and congrats to all winners. Can't wait to take the card on a spin!

Hi Guys,

Having been on board Octane since the very beginning, I've been (very quietly, maybe too quietly) exploring Octane for 3ds Max lately.

I must say, it is exhilarating. I was never a 100 per cent sold on the notion of moving OBJ files from my modeller to my renderer, but being able to work ...

To me this sounds like some kind of harassment of Radiance. Feels like some kind of blackmail scheme.

Really nice to see this famous scene revived!

Thanks guys. Just fooling around, really.

Hey Psor, so nice to see you here. How have you been doing?

I think I might upload my beta images here, all in the same thread, since they're still in a hidden part of the forum.

Hi Guys,

Hadn't had much time to play with Octane since the demo version was posted. Here are a couple of renders I did quickly using some old models. There's minor post on those, mainly for glare and CA.

Render times were between 2 and 5 minutes each. Rendered at 1024x1024 and slightly ...