Render Passes

[matej]

I don't know how hard is to implement certain passes; Cycles has a bunch of passes (diffuse, glossy, transmission, shadow, emission... for direct & indirect bounces) and render layers too and Cycles is an unbiased (afaik) path-tracer that runs on the GPU. But maybe because Octane is a spectral renderer, this is harder to do, dunno...

What I remember is that it was stated several times (even by Radiance in the old RS days) that for Octane compositing passes are not a priority, because the whole Octane philosophy is "do it all in one pass with real-time feedback". This philosophy kinda works well for the fields that Octane is most meant for ie. archviz & productviz and less for animations where compositing and render layers are a must.

I would like to see more support for passes and compositing stuff too. Shadow-catcher and disabling objects for camera rays are two things that are really used a lot, even in "simple" productviz.

[OctaneFX]

+1

[Refracty]

Indeed, a Shadow-catcher material can't be so tricky and it is one of the mostly missing features.

More passes would probably consume more VRam buffer but some of them are really useful.

[gah5118]

+1

[RealityFox]

This would be quite useful, hopefully they are going to do it in later versions (hopefully in the first fully released version)

+1

[ssokol]

+1

[naudofr]

+1

[cyrillweiss]

+1

[H4D]

+1

[clintond]

+2 (I'm schizophrenic)