FrankPooleFloating wrote:Lino, buddy.. um,
is there anything to
"keep us posted" about, nearly six weeks later?.. Pretty please with sugar on top?.. Would really love to have a new guesstimate of when the first Octane Blender 2.8 might drop....
Hi Frank!
I've been testing the very first Octane for Blender 2.8 implementation and really looks great. There are some important features still missing (not implemented yet) and issues to be fixed, but I can already say it will be an awesome improvement over the already very good 2.79 implementation, especially thanks to the new Blender 2.8 API.
Of course is still far from being usable in production, so it will take some more time before the first beta is released to users. What I can say for sure, is this will happen before Blender 2.8 is officially released. Blender 2.8 should be officially released by July, so Octane 2018 for Blender should definitely be available to users before that date.
And when Blender 2.8 will be officially released, we'll need some time to adapt that final build (and any stable following build) so it can work with Octane the best way.
Please consider that developers are working on the 2.8 integration while keeping Octane for Blender 2.79 V4 and 2018 constantly updated (both 2.79 with Octane V4.04 and V2018.2 will be available soon), and that's quite a big workload.
While we're very excited to be working on the 2.8 Octane implementation, keeping the current and different 2.79 versions updated and constantly improve those is very important.