Because i would like to commit my resources ( time, money, collaboration, third pary projects ) for the foreseeable future with these of the Octane render, i have 4 questions:
1. For me, now, the Octane render seem very "clean" ( easy to use, interactive, "managable", "easy to play with", intuitional ). I had a very little experiance with the Indigo render and it seemed slow and somewhat unintuitional to use.
Thus, do you have plans to keep the Octane render easy to use for new users, answer regulary questions in the forums, and bring detail tutorials for the new features you introduce in the render?
I ask that, because i see projects ( Zbrush, for example ) that have troubles to at least inform their users what is going on with the project, and were at the start very frequently met at their forum, but in recent times they are nowhere to be "seen" ( it is exaggeration, but still... )!
2. How do you plan to arrange your future upgrade plans? Upgrades at no, half, quorter price of the full product?
3. I am interested to a lesser degree, what other formats for animation, other than RenderMan RIB, do you plan to support? I ask that, because in the near future i plan to use animations in my projects, and it would be good to sync these plans with yours.
4. What are your plans for integration of the Octane render in Blender or Sketchup ( my modelers of choice
)? Do you plan to publish documentation how 3rd party could do this?I hope the answers of these questions will be helpful for others!
And keep up with the good work!!!
PS: As i have read my questions, i realized that it would be good to have some roadmap for the Octan render, because that would lead to less questions of that sort.
