important note: beta2.3 will become v1.0 final [OBSOLETE]

[Burkhard]

I really can't understood that there is a discussion here- If anyone has not the features that was advertized for V1 you can do
by Law what you want. Till that time , just wait and see what comes next. The names are not relevant for what is build in.
Makes me angry!!!
Radiance makes a great Job here, so wait what comes nex,t before asking

[kubo]

If you take a look at games industry, lately they have been releasing betas as finished games, throwing patches even the day after the release and truly having an stable (1.0?) game a couple of months later with almost no complaining from the customers. So in that aspect I think that Refractive has been really "shy" with octane, as [gk] stated, it has been more than a simple beta for a long time and in my case I've used it to great satisfaction, mine and of my clients.

[ROUBAL]

I think that once all basics features will be included (mainly emitting materials), the "beta" name can be removed. It is better for business.

Anyway, I know no real "Final" versions of softwares. Most of the softwares I use require patches all along their lifes. I know some expensive softwares in so called "stable versions" that even pulled very bad bugs for years that have never been solved!

For the user, the actually important thing is the content of the box, not the name on the package, and Octane has much to offer inside the box, and will have more in the future I'm sure !

[mbetke]

so we hit 2.0 sooner and will have to pay again...

[radiance]

so we hit 2.0 sooner and will have to pay again...

no, that's not correct, please read my and philbo's posts.

Radiance

[radiant]

Im going to have alot of fun within the coming weeks
I have some .blends saved just for it

[Ollarin]

Well. That sounds fine by me. Though, I'm curious, what would the upgrade pricing be like for 2.x onwards?

Looking forward to trying out beta 2.3.

[Meian]

We all looking forward it.... for a looooong time.. >_>

[JackMcRip]

* beta 2.3 is the last beta with new features

wooow - I love this news
This means that all this Features in Beta 2.3 :
(you are very speedy

Specifications

Currently implemented features in OctaneRender, features marked with a '**' are planned for implementation in the upcoming v1.0 Final release. Features will be added throughout the V1.0 Beta period.

ENGINE

Physically based / Spectral Light Transport

Unbiased and directlighting/ambient occlusion

QMC sampling and MLT sampling**

instances**

Motion Blur**

Pause/resume render

Output of render passes, Z-depth map and normal maps**

Alpha channel rendering with real-time UI compositing over images**

support for multiple GPU's**

SPECTRA

RGB colours

Gaussian spectra

Static spectra / drawn in UI

Blackbody spectra

Supports multiple colourspaces

TEXTURES

Image textures incl support for loading over 40 different formats

HDR, Canon RAW, and OpenEXR HDRI image textures

Output of HDR and LDR real-time GPU tonemapped images

Output of raw HDR images (exr, hdr, canon RAW)

LIGHTS

Spectrum or HDRI environment lighting

Spectral sunsky daylight with real-time location/date control system

Emissive arealights on all material types**

MATERIALS

Physically based material models

Bump and normal mapping

Opacity / Alpha mapping

Mappable Thin Film Coatings

Complex IOR **

Null material and mix/stacking of materials and layers**

Absorption and transmittance**

Chromatic dispersion**



CAMERAS

Thin lens perspective with true DOF

Realtime 3D Anaglyphic Stereo Rendering

Orthographic**

Realistic**

Real-time control of DOF

Shift lens**

Z clipping**

Interactive focal-length adjustment in user interface

TONEMAPPING

Full GPU based real-time tonemapping pipeline

Realistic camera controls, F-stop, shutterspeed

Measured camera response curves

USER INTERFACE (UI)

Complete real-time interactive editing and monitoring of scene and rendering

Complete flexible nodegraph based user interface

Build complex procedural objects and materials by connecting nodes

Sharing of node macros with programmable functionality between registered users

Scriptable console version**

Integration in render-queue systems for animation/batch rendering**

FILE FORMATS

Import of wavefront OBJ format with parameters and material import

Import supplied vertex normals or calculate them via supplied smooth groups

Import of Collada .dae format**

Full support for RenderMan RIB format for animation environments**

PLATFORMS

Windows 32 and 64 bit

Linux 64 bit

Mac OS X 10.5 & 10.6



** = Octane Render 1.0 feature

[radiant]

I guess now all they have to worry about is bug fixing and making it faster