Octane 1.5 features revealed!

[Rikk The Gaijin]

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/36313045

- 400% faster render speed!
- Alembic import/export
- New UV transform nodes
- Visibility groups
- Entire API scriptable

[abstrax]

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/36313045

- 400% faster render speed!
- Alembic import/export
- New UV transform nodes
- Visibility groups
- Entire API scriptable

Regarding the speed improvement: This affects scenes with many mesh emitters distributed throughout the scene. If you have only one emitter or only sunlight, there is no improvement. It's also not increasing the sample speed (aka "Ms/s"), but how quickly the noise clears up. And one more thing: It's not decided yet, if the feature will be in 1.5 or 2.0. We will see.

Regarding UV transforms: It's not UV transform nodes, but you will be able to apply a transformation to image texture nodes and choose a border/wrapping mode which defines how image textures are rendered outside of the [0,1] UV range.

Cheers,
Marcus

[Rikk The Gaijin]

Thx for the clarification, still pretty cool though, I can't wait for the Visibility groups.

[Daniel]

Does Alembic import mean we'll be able to render animations in Octane standalone?

[abstrax]

Does Alembic import mean we'll be able to render animations in Octane standalone?

Eventually yes. When we will get there, is not clear yet.

[SamCameron]

Please, don´t forget Motion Blur , not only for objects and camera but also for deformations.

[pixelrush]

,,,,in other words the presentation somewhat overstated the actual situation...

[Goldorak]

,,,,in other words the presentation somewhat overstated the actual situation...

Not at all. There are even a few features that didn't get mentioned - stereo rendering for example.

[Chris]

Awesome news

Cheers

[darkline]

Thanks for the link, very interesting.

Would there be any speed-up for a scene lit with HDRI and a couple of mesh emitters, or will that be negligible?