OctaneRender™ Standalone 2.21.1

[andw]

I've made a small test of Out-of-Core feature and got those results (system info in my signature):
Scene contains about 3M polygons (300Mb OBJ file), total size of textures 3100Mb, rendered in two kernel modes.

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                          PMC(8/8)	PT(8/8)
*Octane 2.16	             1.28	  1.66
*Octane 2.21.1, 
out-of-core disabled	     1.29	  1.63
*Octane 2.21.1, 
2500Mb textures 
in system RAM          	  1.05  	1.41

So, performance hit is just about 20%, which is fine

[smicha]

So, performance hit is just about 20%, which is fine

Thank you for your input. That's indeed not a great loss.

[glimpse]

So, performance hit is just about 20%, which is fine

Thank you for your input. That's indeed not a great loss.

@ANDW - Thanks for info!

@SMICHA - it drops less speed than You get from OC =) so for You it's totaly free =p

[andw]

So, performance hit is just about 20%, which is fine

Thank you for your input. That's indeed not a great loss.

It will be fine, if others will also provide their own test results... because I've tested this feature only at one scene (Still in doubt to wait GTX980 with 8Gb.. or to buy 4Gb version ).

[coilbook]

Please add an option for light to ignore specular material.

It is known that if light shines through specular glass material light takes longer to calculate and more noise. (for example car light bulb shines through glass lens)
Can we have an option similar to a fake shadow called something like IGNORE GLASS on a specular material or light emitter itself where light will pass through specular glass material and completely ignore it like it is not there except glossy reflection that way we will have quick noise free light and a light source behind actual glass like a car head light

Thank you

[FooZe]

Please add an option for light to ignore specular material.

It is known that if light shines through specular glass material light takes longer to calculate and more noise. (for example car light bulb shines through glass lens)
Can we have an option similar to a fake shadow called something like IGNORE GLASS on a specular material or light emitter itself where light will pass through specular glass material and completely ignore it like it is not there except glossy reflection that way we will have quick noise free light and a light source behind actual glass like a car head light

Thank you

How about a glossy material with full reflection, index 1, and less than 1 opacity. This is what was used before fake shadows to get architectural glass.
Essentially it's a glossy material setup as a mirror, but mostly see-through thanks to the opacity (or lack thereof).
For added realism you can use a falloff node to control the opacity.

Would that work for you?

[coilbook]

Please add an option for light to ignore specular material.

It is known that if light shines through specular glass material light takes longer to calculate and more noise. (for example car light bulb shines through glass lens)
Can we have an option similar to a fake shadow called something like IGNORE GLASS on a specular material or light emitter itself where light will pass through specular glass material and completely ignore it like it is not there except glossy reflection that way we will have quick noise free light and a light source behind actual glass like a car head light

Thank you

How about a glossy material with full reflection, index 1, and less than 1 opacity. This is what was used before fake shadows to get architectural glass.
Essentially it's a glossy material setup as a mirror, but mostly see-through thanks to the opacity (or lack thereof).
For added realism you can use a falloff node to control the opacity.

Would that work for you?

Yes Thank you

[whersmy]

I get Error code 3 and my gpus crash when adjusting the scale on a plane with scattering for fog.
in PMC it happens, not sure about PT

[kavorka]

It seems that the check boxes in the Batch render script don't work. I had all off and only one checked, but it rendered every render target.

[stratified]

It seems that the check boxes in the Batch render script don't work. I had all off and only one checked, but it rendered every render target.

Hi,

Yep, I can confirm. It seems that we break this one every release. Apologies for that.

cheers,
Thomas