Preview of OctaneRender for Blender Tweet

[archigrafix]

Wow Jim! I feel like it is almost ready for us no?

[steveps3]

It is looking very good. I don't suppose there is any finger in the air type release date? i.e. this month, couple of months, end of the year?

[kavorka]

WOW!
it's much farther along than I thought.
Thank you for all your work and this new sample answers a lot of questions, but I do have more

1. I noticed there wasnt a displacement node, even though Blender has displacement built in, do we need to wait for Octane to support it to use it?
2. If I run an animation, does it need to reload everything for each frame into the VRAM? or will it keep all textures, ect? I'm really hoping to speed up the render time on my animations which can take up my render machine for several days at a time. Right now I can't use an HDRI image for animations because it takes a good 10 sec to load for each frame.

[megacal]

Hi Jim,

my wife is skilled Blender professional too, and she loves them both: Blender and Octane.

Then I'll just be patient...I'm sure she'll pop the whip if she catches you slacking....mine does!

Thanks for working on it....I have no idea what it entails....it's all magic to me when I hit the render button.
Good job mate.

[convergen]

I noticed that there is a server IP address in the settings window, does this allow for a seperate network computer to handle the rendering?

[JimStar]

WOW!
it's much farther along than I thought.
Thank you for all your work and this new sample answers a lot of questions, but I do have more

1. I noticed there wasnt a displacement node, even though Blender has displacement built in, do we need to wait for Octane to support it to use it?
2. If I run an animation, does it need to reload everything for each frame into the VRAM? or will it keep all textures, ect? I'm really hoping to speed up the render time on my animations which can take up my render machine for several days at a time. Right now I can't use an HDRI image for animations because it takes a good 10 sec to load for each frame.

A little later you will see how it works... I will try to optimize all the animation things as much as possible - right now the plugin is just not in the stage where optimisation work starts... But even if very first versions will not have something - the plugin will grow up quickly...

I noticed that there is a server IP address in the settings window, does this allow for a seperate network computer to handle the rendering?

At the time this feature is not available...

[Daniel]

So is animation working yet? Are you able to take a pre-animated character and run it in this build? That's just a general question, but if you could show a preview of it as well, I'm sure that would make many people happy.

[mib2berlin]

Hi JimStar, great work sofar.
I saw in your last video you use Blender 2.64, we are now at 2.67 or short before.
Blender has a very short release cycles, about 2 month.
As we need a special build for Octane addon do you think you follow this short cycle?

Cheers, mib.

[JimStar]

Hi JimStar, great work sofar.
I saw in your last video you use Blender 2.64, we are now at 2.67 or short before.
Blender has a very short release cycles, about 2 month.
As we need a special build for Octane addon do you think you follow this short cycle?

Cheers, mib.

... Octane Blender plugin will be released as binary and as patch for new Blender releases, don't worry about it too.

[mib2berlin]

Ah, over read this, thanks.

Cheers, mib.