by ramone163 » Sat Apr 14, 2018 11:47 am
ramone163
Sat Apr 14, 2018 11:47 am
Let's try to clarify things about Octane OSL. Does OSL is the universal language? Because now only 10% of all OSL that I found on the internet (also OSL form 3ds MAX 2019) work in 3ds MAX. Then what is the point? Who will rewrite all this OSL to work with Octane? OSL for c4d or Blender will not work for 3ds MAX and vice versa?
When 3ds MAX 2019 announce OSL support, they also made a lot of OSL files. What we have with OTOY? You announce OSL 1.5-2 years ago. Now we have it (but it does not work for 100%), after 2 years you still fix it. And we do not have OSL shaders from OTOY. Okay, we have Vray flakes (not made by OTOY), and we have from OTOY: osl_yellow, ed_slider, osl_mix_textures, Mandelbrot, oslCamera - are you serious? I don't really think we need OSL to change color, I can make it with Octane standard tools. If you announce powerful tool, so offer us some powerful OSL files to show what OSL shaders can do. Or we have to wait 2 years more? Or we have to wait when some programmers will write OSL shaders for us?
It isn't rather simple to present new technology, but you have to move it forward and make it better and comfortable to use.
Some examples:
1) Otoy announces 1,5 years ago Toon shader and so proud of it. What we have? Do you call this cool toon shader? Please look at Arnold 5.1 or 3ds max plugin Illustrate!. This I call real Toon Shader.
2) Otoy announces VDB support. Okay, cool. Thanks. But still, it is not so cool as has to be. Slow, bad support with Phoenix and FumeFX. We (3ds max users) still cant view our VDB with a point-cloud view, only as a box. You think this is so easy-to-use? This option has to be from the beginning. I don't really understand why you don't see that.
3)Same, announce OSL, but what we were waiting for 2 years, to be able to change the color with OSL? Show us more. We are not programmers, we are artists.
I understand that it is important to announce "COOL" things for your investors. But for us (customers), will be cool if you will complete the work.
P.S. I apologize for my english.