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FrankPooleFloating wrote:Hi Juanjo -- Will we have the ability to make objects "Invisible to Camera" in plug? (but cast shadows and reflections etc) This is something we have been able to do in LW forever.. but Octane seems to not be able to do this... unless I have missed something...

Also, is there a list somewhere of things that will not be supported in your plug? (I assume this list would be much smaller - and easier/quicker to make than a list of all features)

Octane currently doesn't support visbility options, so it is not possible for the plugin to add this feature. Of course as soon as Octane support it I will add visibility options to the plugin.

Plugin support near all features of Octane Standalone app, fully integrated inside LW. This is going to be the 1.0 version release, of course there is a lot of work to do along this year in the 1.x cycle and in the future with new releases, but I think that plugin is now ready to be used in production and to be full tested.

-Juanjo

Great. I think it is ready for production too... release it please!

juanjgon wrote:

FrankPooleFloating wrote:Hi Juanjo -- Will we have the ability to make objects "Invisible to Camera" in plug? (but cast shadows and reflections etc) This is something we have been able to do in LW forever.. but Octane seems to not be able to do this... unless I have missed something...

Also, is there a list somewhere of things that will not be supported in your plug? (I assume this list would be much smaller - and easier/quicker to make than a list of all features)

Octane currently doesn't support visbility options, so it is not possible for the plugin to add this feature. Of course as soon as Octane support it I will add visibility options to the plugin.

Plugin support near all features of Octane Standalone app, fully integrated inside LW. This is going to be the 1.0 version release, of course there is a lot of work to do along this year in the 1.x cycle and in the future with new releases, but I think that plugin is now ready to be used in production and to be full tested.

-Juanjo

You do mean 1.0 Beta version release? or are you skipping to final for full price?

I'm pretty sure he means paid-beta... all of the plugs have been released this way.. no?

Yes it will be a paid-beta ... the 1.0 beta is going to be released at reduced price like the other Octane plugins.

-Juanjo

New video that show the IPR navigation functions. User has a 2D camera pan and zoom, a 3D perspective view and a 3D target view that include realtime target update after select one object and realtime object tracking.

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/60089884[/vimeo]

-Juanjo

Juanjo, I am not sure if you are trying to get us excited (um, that happened.. like.. back in November)
or just tease us and/or rub it in that you get to play with these toys.. and we don't...

... I wanna play too...

In this video you can see that Octane and LW Native rendering can work together in the same scene. Octane material nodes has a LW material input that allow shading the surface in both LW and Octane engines.

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/60159766[/vimeo]

-Juanjo

I have a new Facebook page for Octane for Lightwave plugin development to show videos, images, news, etc.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Octane-re ... 5101408782

-Juanjo