OctaneRender™ Standalone 3.06 TEST

[manalokos]

Triplanar should be a projection mode, as it is it does not help with anything if you don't have a UVW map in your geometry... couldn't you just add a Blend angle to the Box projection?

It is nice to have it as a texture mixer, but the real point is not to mix different textures... it is to avoid seams in textures.

[KonstantinosD]

Ok here are my initial tests, Adaptive Sampling does work just fine as you will see below,
All these are rendered with 7x1080's watercooled 2x Xeons e-5 2640 v4, at 1920x1080, pathtracing of course and the scene's only light source is a window with a light portal on the right and octane sun and sky env. Tems at max reached 44 C in a fairly hot room of 23 C with complete silence from the machine. also a shout to Smicha who build it ! I also did a super clean render at 8192 samples followed by the same quality with AS.

Here:

[mikinik]

Adaptive sampling

when you use volumetric light sources Adaptive sampling useless. How to speed up rendering?

3,06 - 4,28 min
3,05 - 4,38 min


PS
in RS render Adaptive sampling works well.


OctaneBench +2 point? WTF?
of course OctaneBench 3.06 without AS

Nvidia driver 378.49

...support for adaptive sampling to the direct lighting and the path tracing kernels...

read here viewtopic.php?p=304601#p304601

[smicha]

Ok here are my initial tests, Adaptive Sampling does work just fine as you will see below,
All these are rendered with 7x1080's watercooled 2x Xeons e-5 2640 v4, at 1920x1080, pathtracing of course and the scene's only light source is a window with a light portal on the right and octane sun and sky env. Tems at max reached 44 C in a fairly hot room of 23 C with complete silence from the machine. also a shout to Smicha who build it ! I also did a super clean render at 8192 samples followed by the same quality with AS.

Here:

So 1:16 reduced to 0:42 ....

[KonstantinosD]

And 4:17 to 1:34!!! At a complete noise free image more than 3 times faster than 3.05!

[smicha]

And 4:17 to 1:34!!! At a complete noise free image more than 3 times faster than 3.05!

Any particular settings for AS?

[KonstantinosD]

noise threshold to 0.038, min samples to 512 and power to 1, and up the samples a lot 25000-50000. It starts slow but it goes crazy fast after sometime!

[glimpse]

noise threshold to 0.038, min samples to 512 and power to 1, and up the samples a lot 25000-50000. It starts slow but it goes crazy fast after sometime!

Thanks for those tests ;) looks promising!

[VVG]

Adaptive sampling

when you use volumetric light sources Adaptive sampling useless. How to speed up rendering?

3,06 - 4,28 min
3,05 - 4,38 min


PS
in RS render Adaptive sampling works well.


OctaneBench +2 point? WTF?
of course OctaneBench 3.06 without AS

Nvidia driver 378.49

...support for adaptive sampling to the direct lighting and the path tracing kernels...

read here viewtopic.php?p=304601#p304601

read what? in my scene just use path tracing method

[doca]

Correct me if I am wrong, but looks like AS is wasting samples on completely black areas- deep shadowed, or black material... Maybe, "path termination power" is confronting with it, or it is pointless when you have AS turned on?