OctaneRender™ Standalone 3.00 alpha 1 Tweet

[philliplakis]

Looks good so far

No OpenCL though?

[Seekerfinder]

Thanks guys! Looks awesome.

However I see no comment about speed. Are we going to take another render speed hit on this release? Are the kernels faster? What's happening?

Seeker

It's faster in every scene I have tested it on

Thanks Goldorak. Great to hear! Speed improvements are usually touted. It used to be a big deal with every new Octane release. Would be keen to do some testing and hear about comparisons from the community since it's a non-subject by the dev team for this release.

Best,
Seeker

[Zay]

It eats about 18% more memory when trying to match 2.42.2 speed. Lowering Parallel Samples to 1 to get same amount of RAM usage as in 2.24.2 slows down render time from 24 minutes to 50 minutes in my test scene
But the windows response time is fast, now that the GPU isn't working that hard anymore Is render priority obsolete? Doesn't seem to have an effect now.

[Seekerfinder]

... but eventually brought some speed gains in most scenes for path tracing (especially with coherent ration set to 0) and PMC. Direct lighting with a coherent ratio of 0 roughly has the same performance, while direct lighting with a coherent ratio of >0 is often a bit slower than in 2.24.

Ah! Missed that ( ) thanks Rob.

[Goldorak]

Looks good so far

No OpenCL though?

OSL first, and that is coming in the beta phase.

[MagnusL3D]

Baking has been mentioned previously and also mentioned previously it wouldnt make it into the first Alpha, just wanted to confirm that it is comming but in a later Alpha ?

[Goldorak]

Baking has been mentioned previously and also mentioned previously it wouldnt make it into the first Alpha, just wanted to confirm that it is comming but in a later Alpha ?

Alpha 2 scheduled for next week.

[Rikk The Gaijin]

Congratulation for the first release!

[milanm]

Just like any previous version it's 4-8 times slower on OSX.
Slower rendering of character animation, cloth sims, point cached animation.. etc. defeats the benefits of GPU rendering on OSX.



Regards
Milan

[abstrax]

error

What did you do to make it crash?