FrankPooleFloating wrote:Lino, buddy.. um, is there anything to "keep us posted" about, nearly six weeks later?.. Pretty please with sugar on top?.. Would really love to have a new guesstimate of when the first Octane Blender 2.8 might drop....
ivobran wrote:Thank you Lino for the information!
I personally am willing to work with an alpha build since i am not using Blender in production and my main setup is Cinema 4D with Octane until you release the 2.8 version, so if there is an option to do some testing on an alpha or just to chase some bugs in a regular working environment i think there are plenty of candidates eager to try it out including me. Not sure how your policy is on that so i am just putting it out there.
FrankPooleFloating wrote:So Lino & Jules, here is the thing.. I've been using E-Cycles for weeks now.. and I have to tell you two, and anyone else at Otoy who will listen: Unless you gents find some way to either convert on the fly in the background OR straight-up use Blender's materials (mainly Principled BSDF obviously), I'm thinking that it is likely that Octane will just become another tool in my toolbox -- one that I merely use for things that Blender just can't do in Cycles -- and not continue to be my main render engine. I am just being honest here. I'm getting astonishing results with Cycles and pretty damn nice speeds with E-Cycles. Of course I'm going to do speed comparisons as soon as Octane Blender 2.8 is ready, and I'm sure Octane will be faster (perhaps waaay faster), but being able to work with Blender materials natively, and use incredible addons like Graswald without touching mats whatsoever, or bring in my glTFs from Painter and render away, etc, is going to make it quite tough for me to to make the conscious decision to set up Octane materials and switch over to Octane Engine if I am not very compelled to do so... So I really, really encourage you guys to look into what it would take to make this happen. I've loved using Octane for these 6.5 years on a nearly daily basis, and I'd be thrilled to continue to do so....
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