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Rhodesy
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Only joking! but coincidence Fryrender is taking a similar tak. I think Octane will definately have the price advantage as no doubt the fry version will be a bit pricy. I like the use of the cpu and the GPU together is this something Octane might be capable of? Wonder what happens with RAM allocation.

http://www.randomcontrol.com/arion
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Sam
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Yeah nice move from Randomcontrol but we can except heavy prices from them.
But Octane can make all the difference by being more "open" (OBJ, Materials etc..) than Randomcontrol because they are a bigger company and they use fry format.
Good luck Octane ;)

Also supporting LAN rendering with multiple GPU like Arion gonna be very important :)

Also good to notice that random control and Maxwell render are very close (they copy each other)
So I think Maxwell gonna launch a GPU renderer soon :)
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radiance
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heh, this is fun, it looks like a reaction to octane. :)

they have a habit of doing things like that,
they've been promising the realtime raytracer random control for years now,
and we've not seen anything released.

my bet is they make promises like this in advance to get people to buy the main renderer.

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Probably
Look at video 003 (the classroom) they switch the view from final to AO to other kind of pass, kinda neat because you can navigate using only AO and it seems faster.
Anyway there's so many way a small company like Octane can beat bigger company (price, open architecture, nodes in UI etc...)

But you should (when beta is out) make more Videos (or say to users to make them) to have more to see, and more real work examples scene like the ones used in Arion (archviz, product viz etc..) because some users in other forums sayed that Arion got more promising videos than Octane and their small space ships aha :lol:

Cant wait for the beta :)
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radiance
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hi,

yeah, we'll let people decide for themselves, not with promising videos,
but playing with octane first hand this weekend. :)

btw, octane also runs on CPU's, and in the near future mixing GPUs and CPUs together.
the demo this weekend only works on GPU's though.

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Rhodesy
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Definately think your onto something there with the announcement 'coincidence' Radiance! Think they are wanting to say they were the first but think you'll pip them to the post! Im a fry user but just for fun (use Vray for work), i bought fry after using maxwell for my final year architectural thesis and thought wow if i could render a scene in this quality to expore in realtime it would be amazing! three and a bit years later................ still waiting. But to be fair they have changed technology mid way through.

Good luck Octane! 2010 is going to be some year!
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radiance
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i've just had a look at those videos and octane is more than 2x as fast on a similar scene... :)
and that on a slower GTX260 instead of a GTX285.

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Yeh, it kind of seamed a little slow to me as well. I was a little dissappointed in the speed, but maybe I'm expecting too much.

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Hoop wrote:Yeh, it kind of seamed a little slow to me as well. I was a little dissappointed in the speed, but maybe I'm expecting too much.

Hoop
I think we all these days expect too much!!

In regards to Fry - I don't think they have lived up to any expectations todate, and I would suggest they and others are being reactive to new news!

Ask the question 12 months ago and the answer would have been "one day but not likely in the forseeable future!!".
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What happened to there realtime renderer ?
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