Found the problem. Obj mesh exported from Houdini lacks normal (vn) definitions. Re-saving the file from Modo adds the normals (and rounds other values a bit) and the mesh behaves as expected in Octane 1.1. Version 1.0 and prior seem to work fine without normal definitions. I guess I have to rethink ...

Just downloaded the 1.1 version and fired up my previous project to see how it performs. To my surprise I see 40% speed drop, but even bigger issue is the look change. The whole glass tile wall is now a busy mess. I clocked 2 minute renders to illustrate the issue. The whole scene is illuminated ...

Copy/paste, grouping and collapsing, instancing nodes and custom node colors would be great. Thumbnails would help if no other method of seeing what's going on at any given point of the node tree is going to be implemented.

But about the nodes themselves, ability to expand the node to reveal the ...

Very interesting. I wonder if using the image stacks feature of Photoshop you could get better results.

Just tested the two applicable stack modes, Mean and Median, with the '40 x 125 samples' set. Mean is actually mathematically same as the method I used earlier and Median is, well, median. The ...

While sample averaging over multiple renders is not perfect, it definitely works.
Simply take all the renders, divide the values in each by the total number of renders (if you have ten frames, set gain to 0.1 on each of them), and add them together.

Yes. I install Octan on desktop computer and it's work fine. The problem is only with remote desktop option.

that does'nt make any sense at all...
if octane runs on the desktop PC, and it won't run through a remote connection you're doing something wrong...
the only issue i could imagine is that ...

Hi! Searched the manual and this forum, but didn't see any discussion related to this. In the short time I've used the application I've noticed that from time to time you encounter specific areas that require significantly more samples than rest of the image. Like glass object in matter space, some ...