bazuka,

Great script! Has been working well for me on May 2011 x64. One little bug I have encountered:

The progress bar that pops up when rendering an animation gives a percentage value %, but seems to actually be counting frames. So for my 300 frame animation, the progress bar says 30% when ...

Yeah, Radiance is right, the heat probably isn't much of a problem. I checked my 480 again now after 3 days non-stop and it isn't any hotter, and I've had no problems.

For my Octane seat at work I just got a EVGA Superclocked GTX480 and it is really fast. I've been batch rendering a scene with about 3 million triangles (almost all reflective and refractive materials) at 2560x1440 to about 750 samples in an average of 8-10 minutes per frame (average 4.5 megasamples ...

Thanks so much! I'll give that a try. I appreciate it.

mlody47: Thanks! Yeah, I was looking at your satin earlier today in the gallery. Really nice! Well, all your renders are stunning. Great work.

I'm curious what your spec/roughness settings are. Did you also use bump on parts of the satin on the ground? I used more of a cotton texture for my normal ...

I've been working on this crown project at work for a while now in Maya and Modo. Finally had a free day to put it in Octane and give it a whirl (still have much to learn). Somewhere down the road I'd like to rework the fabric ground, perhaps achieve something more like satin. I also want to do some ...

Awesome release! Very stable on my setup.

I've noticed one small bug (win x64 version at least):
On "filmindex" parameter for both specular and glossy materials, the slider displays incorrectly. The value will adjust to wherever I click or drag on the bar, but the slider triangle is always ...