OctaneRender™ for LightWave™ 2.0 preview

[mdharrington]

Nice work Juan....looking forward to trying it...
Finally lightwave will have micropolygon displacement....

[vipvip]

really impressive !
it would be so great to have control on this displacement, like populating with intances...

[juanjgon]

Other example, a grass patch using displacement.

[FrankPooleFloating]

Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!.. and using some grass blade instances in concert with this would probably look even better. Maybe just a couple thousand in stead of hundreds of thousands.

To celebrate, let's have us a picnic on this grass when Octane LW 2.0 is released!.. Me and the wifey will bring the potato salad and deviled eggs!

More please! Keep it comin' J!

[gordonrobb]

Other example, with only one quad polygon, all working in real time

-Juanjo

OK, this is superb. But it got me thinking. What we need now is a LW type gradient node to assist with the texturing of something like that. Any chance?

[FrankPooleFloating]

Hmmmm.. I just realized something.. If displacement happens in the GPU, then we would not be able to instance things along a surface, if said surface is being displaced a significant distance from original - like that mountain range for example... Juanjo?

[gordonrobb]

Unless we use Octane's instances? Haven't used them, so may be talking rubbish

[juanjgon]

Hmmmm.. I just realized something.. If displacement happens in the GPU, then we would not be able to instance things along a surface, if said surface is being displaced a significant distance from original - like that mountain range for example... Juanjo?

Perhaps you could use a dummy displaced object in Lightwave (using LW displacement, but disabled to don't render it with Octane) to use it as instancing surface.

-Juanjo

[FrankPooleFloating]

We'll cross that bridge when the time comes. Keep on truckin' pal.

[gordonrobb]

Did you see my question about gradients? LW type ones. Would be really useful with displacement too.