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[CGicore]

I hope there's a lightwave plugin. The price of octane render is perfect for many many freelance lightwave users.

"sss and displacement is for the future v2.0
a lightwave plugin is currently being evaluated.
Radiance"

[Stereomike]

I vote for a Lightwave plug aswell!

[Cageman]

I would also like to see a LightWave plugin!

[kggraphics]

+1 vote for the Lightwave plugin

[timbarnes]

YOU SHOULD!

As i am an architect and i am interested mostly in architectural visualization, my proposal is to prepare an exterior/interior of a building and realtime render it with 2 (or 4!) gtx480 cards. Then send the video to http://www.cgarchitect.com. Also work on the materials, as the libraries is an important factor for choosing a product. Could you work on a plugin for archicad or revit?

idtasos

I'm working on archviz as well: my biggest worry is the time to get the models over and into Octane. The voxelizing process for one relatively small model today took over an hour, and I haven't been able to get any bigger models in yet. I use ArchiCAD, and my last design file was over 60Mb, leading to a .OBJ file of 145Mb.

I think an ArchiCAD loader / interface would be great for European and Australasian architects; also for the US although I think Revit is gaining share. I'm not sure about what people use in Asia.

[radiance]

YOU SHOULD!

As i am an architect and i am interested mostly in architectural visualization, my proposal is to prepare an exterior/interior of a building and realtime render it with 2 (or 4!) gtx480 cards. Then send the video to http://www.cgarchitect.com. Also work on the materials, as the libraries is an important factor for choosing a product. Could you work on a plugin for archicad or revit?

idtasos

I'm working on archviz as well: my biggest worry is the time to get the models over and into Octane. The voxelizing process for one relatively small model today took over an hour, and I haven't been able to get any bigger models in yet. I use ArchiCAD, and my last design file was over 60Mb, leading to a .OBJ file of 145Mb.

I think an ArchiCAD loader / interface would be great for European and Australasian architects; also for the US although I think Revit is gaining share. I'm not sure about what people use in Asia.

That's quite strange, i can load 200MB OBJ files here and they voxelise in less than 50 seconds...
Are you running octane on a very old system or something ?
Maybe you don't have enough RAM and it start swapping...

Radiance

[fribeiro]

Hello

Working with Revit and highly interested in plugin for revit.

[scratch33]

+1 for the lightwave plugin. please.

[mcgarianala]

Hi Guys!

I'm new in this forum and a newbie in CG stuff.

I am planning to assemble my rendering rig for Octane, however i have a few questions regarding component choices:

1.CPU - I've read a lot of discussions regarding CPU bottlenecks in relation to SLI/gaming applications. Would having multiple GPUs for Octane Render rig be limited by an i7 (965 or 975) processor? Would having 3 or 4 GPUs be better addressed by a dual Xeon board such as EVGA SR2 or EVGA 4 way classified board with a i7 core be fine?

2. Memory - What would be the recommended system memory for multi-GPU rig i.e. how much memory should i add for each additional GPU.

Hope you can help me decide.

Thanks and regards,

MGarianala

[radiance]

Hi Guys!

I'm new in this forum and a newbie in CG stuff.

I am planning to assemble my rendering rig for Octane, however i have a few questions regarding component choices:

1.CPU - I've read a lot of discussions regarding CPU bottlenecks in relation to SLI/gaming applications. Would having multiple GPUs for Octane Render rig be limited by an i7 (965 or 975) processor? Would having 3 or 4 GPUs be better addressed by a dual Xeon board such as EVGA SR2 or EVGA 4 way classified board with a i7 core be fine?

2. Memory - What would be the recommended system memory for multi-GPU rig i.e. how much memory should i add for each additional GPU.

Hope you can help me decide.

Thanks and regards,

MGarianala

CPU does'tn really matter, just a decent quad-core is fine, it can run over 4 GPUs easily.
memory on the host is'nt that important either. octane just replicates the scene in all gpus, so 4GB or more is fine, altough a x64 OS is recommended to get more precomputed and into your GPU.

Radiance