I'm rendering 500 passes and it takes 3 minutes to render the scene on a GTX 1070. This seems slow to me. Is it expected?

what is more, at 500 passes the render is still nowhere near final quality. I would expect it needs to get up to around 1500 passes which would take ages.

I have another GTX ...

Hi, it looks like my final render (Main) doesn't contain any AO which i require, so I have created a AO render pass, but how do I combine this in with the main render and view it all togethor in the live preview?
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Hi all, I just got the Sketchup version as i was so pleased with the C4d version I'm already using. However, it seems when I make changes to my lighting,scene,materials etc and save my sketchup file, upon returning my OctaneRnder seems to revert everything back to defaults. (At least certainly for ...

Do tell how! Did you use Sketchup for this cloud ?!?

I've spent half a day trying to create volumetric smoke with a generator but all I end up with is a perfectly cubic block of smoke. How on earth do I get the smoke to actually look like smoke . I have never seen smoke look like a box, so I am wondering why the default ones (Cloud1 and RandomCloud ...

Hi , Im just following the basic tutorial at http://vimeo.com/62241847 but at the very basics by scene renders really wierd.(Look at the strange shadow on the cube base) Check out the screen shot. Is there some setting I have missed. The scene just contains an editable cube and a plane..that's it.