OctaneRender® pre-Beta 2.3 v5 (win/lin/mac) [OBSOLETE]

[Jaberwocky]

Please ignore my earlier comment about the max plugin 1.022F causing Octane to crash out.I had the Specify GPU box ticked.I only have 1 GPU in my machine.Once i unticked the box ,Octane opened up OK.Could this however be seen as an error trapping bug ?

[Synthercat]

Ok I think i've found a bug.I can use JPGS & TIFF maps in the scene ok.However I have just tried a test with a Gif file and it displays it in black and white as you can see from the uploaded images.Replacing the GIF with a JPG and your back to colour again.I think this must constitue a bug.

I had such an issue since v4. Strange was that after a while even the software I use for pic browsing (faststone) didn't display that gif's thumbnail

[martin.hedin]

I cant change the resolution for the rendering with this one...

Nothing happens, stays with the initial 1024 x 580 (?)

[justix]

Right I'm testing with the benchmark in pathtracing and I have 2.06 Megasamples compared to the intermediate pre 2.3 v4 running 2.44 Megasamples, is that normal or should I look
into something? (2.69 with 10.22b)

[matej]

Right I'm testing with the benchmark in pathtracing and I have 2.06 Megasamples compared to the intermediate pre 2.3 v4 running 2.44 Megasamples, is that normal or should I look
into something? (2.69 with 10.22b)

v4 has pathtracing maxdepth default 8, v5 16. Check if this is the cause.

[radiance]

Hi guys,

THE SPEED DIFFERENCE is due to more intelligent decisions while tracing rays.
This takes a bit more computation so the speed is slower, but the render converges faster (eg less noise/fireflies), which is what counts when using pathtracing for your finals

we raised the maxdepth to 16 as this gives more indirect light, but you can puit it on 2048 too if you like,
it just creates more fireflies, but now you can easily remove them

Radiance

[Daniel]

Well that makes sense.

Before: More megasamples, but more fireflies = render time of say 10 minutes.
After: Less megasamples, but less fireflies = render time of something faster than 10 minutes, hopefully.

[kubo]

I love it, light efficiency is great, and the new manual is superb, much more complete, with lot's of things that get asked time and again there clearly explained.
The firefly killer works flawless following the instructions. I'm having lot's of fun, I'll post some test later on.
Thanks

[marchermitte]

I made this little test last night (with a commercial Vray scene that I exported as an obj) to try the new sanded glass fonction... works pretty nicely I'd say!

[kubo]

beautiful shot marchermitte, the new glass is great.