Octane developers see the link in this please.

[jmfowler]

hi - check out furryball compare sheet.

second chart down says - X for maya integration - obviously this is not factually correct - you may want to correct them on this.

http://furryball.aaa-studio.cz/aboutFur ... mpare.html

cheers,
JF.

[criko3d]

but furryball is widely known as an overpriced piece of crap, if we talk about final quality...

[glimpse]

it might be fast..but for some reason I don't like pictures I've seen on their gallery =) maybe there a a reason for that..
pluss why to pay so much for the render engine..

[darkline]

agreed furryball does not have the realism of octane, but does trump it with speed. Perhaps the integration of brigade would help octane's speed at a lower level of realism.

Interestingly furryball gets the fastest speed from a GTX 680, while iray and octane from GTX 580. Perhaps furryball uses more tricks and shaders found in gaming, than real world mathematical calculations.

[criko3d]

i think the most interesting thing is not how fast it does the trick, i think that the final result is the most important thing, and furryball.... is like the name just a furry ball..

[RickToxik]

With all the high respect I have for Jimstar and his very good integration of the octane plugin in maya, I wished so much that Otoy would put more ressources in maya to be able to render native maya features (fluids, maya particles, etc.).

I don't see this happening in the near future, as all the improvements come from the native engine team. I'll always hit the limit of having to include another renderer in my work until octane starts integrating maya specific features. It does not sound that dramatic until you consider that I am never able to use the beautiful depth of field of the octane cameras because I have to match several render layers in post.