Interest in Octane by Autodesk is probably zero, since they have iRay.

Interest in Maya by Autodesk is probably zero, since they have 3DS Max.
Interest in Softimage by Autodesk is probably zero, since they have 3DS Max and Maya.

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Apples to oranges. You're comparing apps (with different ...

As a fan of octane I don't what you to answer any call from them, even you say raising price in alpha.

Autodesk will get what they want to. Imagine Refractive does not aggree to sell to Autodesk. Autodesk says "okay no problem. we can just phone our long term partner nvidia and they will change ...

What if I buy an Octane license now. Can I still buy the max plugin for 75€? (Bundle=174€, Octane=99)

'k, thanks anyway

ok, but could the roadmap be shared publicly?

private forum?

maybe because octane is a iRay (nvidia renderer) competitor, and probably costs wayyyyyy less.

Ot - a scale helper would be useful imho, like a math object with known octane measures. E.g., a sphere node with customizable radius.

you could obtain it also compositing 3 identical rederings at 1/3 of exposure changing the ior slightly, I suppose

Or, if you're on win7/vista, try to run the app as administrator (right click/run as administrator).