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Hi everyone,

Refractive Software LTD is proud to announce the availability of version 1 beta2.1 final of Octane Render.
This is a new commercial release, with updated demo versions.

Important note regarding Multi-GPU Support
We have decided to delay our multi-gpu implementation to the soon following 2.2 update.

New demo versions are available on the demo download page: http://www.refractivesoftware.com/downloads.html

Commercial versions are available to licensed customers via the usual customer release access.

New Features since beta2

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- Improved fermi architecture optimization, nearly double speedup. (4 MegaSamples/sec on the benchmark scene with a GTX480 GPU)

- new multi picker, right click with material picker to select materials hidden behind others
- new zoom picker, use it to move towards/focus on an object

- built in support for rendering turntable animations
- built in support for rendering daycycle animations
- command line automation flags for batch animation rendering, and passing camera placement and OBJ relinking
- can choose which gpu to use by default as command line flag (-g x)

- many Mac OS X UI enhancements, native menu bar, OCS icons, etc...
- updated manual


Changes & Bugfixes since beta2

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- material and autofocus picking on different resolutions and after panning/zooming the image now works correctly
- more stability when changing render resolution while rendering
- bottom part of image is correctly displayed when navigating with supersampling
- roughness of glossy materials can go lower than min 40, and does'nt produce fireflies anymore
- bump mapping sampling of large maps is corrected.
- vignetting does'nt dissolve image gamma on edges anymore (eg works in HDR space)
- linux version can now read .PNG image file format
- fixed issue with diffuse transmission being connected by default on diffuse materials giving incorrect shading
- render hour timer issue is fixed.
- loading of files with non minor case .obj is fixed
- 16bpp grayscale images and 32bpp HDR grayscale images are now working on all platforms
- CMD+Q quits the application on Mac OS X
- Mac OS X version does'nt crash on exit anymore
- OBJ material import adds scale parameter
- nodes can be renamed correctly now
- Mac OS X does'nt need specific order of cuda package installation and the making of the symbolic link to the cuda runtime anymore.
- large nodes scroll more smooth/fast in node inspector
- fixed CMD+left click for multi material picking on mac OS X
- fixed incorrect camera raster horizontal position issue
- fixed issue when closing the application and not asking to save/cancel
- Command shortcuts added for Opening (CTRL/CMD O - open), New (CTRL/CMD N - new), Save (CTRL/CMD S - save)


Please note that this release is an incremental update towards the complete v1.0 with all planned features as on our product page.

Yours,
The Octane Render Team

Thanks a lot Radiance..
Is the animation disabled for the demo version?

nuverian wrote:Thanks a lot Radiance..
Is the animation disabled for the demo version?

yes, as animation saves images, it we were to allow it, people can use it to bypass saving of images...

Radiance

Thanks for the update. Will test on laptop to see if still functioning.

btw, here's an overview of the new built-in animation panels,
and you can also render generic animations with the new command line arguments and we've got 3 scripts in development currently for blender, max and maya...

Radiance

Thanks..Too bad I can't test it, but Im going to buy soon eitherway.
So whats the workflow for animating a camera in Maya for example?
Hope you support Softimage and Cinema4D in the future.

nuverian wrote:Thanks..Too bad I can't test it, but Im going to buy soon eitherway.
So whats the workflow for animating a camera in Maya for example?
Hope you support Softimage and Cinema4D in the future.

community members are currently building scripts,
you'll have to wait until they have finalized and documented them...
it's all brand new.

Radiance

is it worth it download the demo for mac as the cuda drivers you say they need an update ?


im on macbookpro from last year with the 2 cards.

Hi Radiance!
I just started testing it but the new beta seems to have fixed many of the little problems we had on OSX, and even on low-end hardware like mine the overall UI response it's a little bit faster. CPU usage in idle state (=render paused) seems lower too. Can't say about render speed since statistics were broken in the previous beta (they're fine now).
Now I hope to hear some good news from nVidia to be able to play with the 9600GT too...

great work so far, thank you!

Too bad about multi-GPUs. Still takes too long to bake a pie on my two GTS-250s.

Whichway