OctaneRender® 2023.1 Alpha 1

[J.C]

Any chance of getting improved shadow matte like in Redshift? Also any chances to get denoised shadow and reflection mattes no to mention denoised light passes.

[Kalua]

Nice to see you guys making progress!
Question:

How do you compare Analytic Light / AI Light / primitive Lights ? I get the last 2 cause they are not new, but how different is the last addition?
Regards,

[elsksa]

Will there be an option to sub-divide the concerned Analytic Lights?

[elsksa]

How do you compare Analytic Light / AI Light / primitive Lights ?

The comparison image shown in the release note shows the "sampling optimization" difference between Analytic Lights and "equivalent lights using geometry primitives with an emission material applied". The former (Analytic lights) being basically more optimized.

AI Light is a kernel-level option for some scenes that have many lights with localized distributions (small ones, particularly on interior scenes but not exclusively). The results are improved when paired with Adaptive Sampling.

[elsksa]

I've noticed the distant light "sun direction to float" differs from the daylight-environment one, by only featuring a single axis control. Is it intentional?

[hypeng]

I've noticed the distant light "sun direction to float" differs from the daylight-environment one, by only featuring a single axis control. Is it intentional?

This is a bug and should be fixed soon.

[3dworks]

Network rendering back on Mac OS. Thanks, but what happened to the headless rendering that was promised? That would be a game changer, working on my mac but having my 2 x 3090 PC doing the heavy lifting. And I don't mean for final renders, I mean working in the Live Viewer.

same situation, same question

[northalex78]

Quick bump, can we get someone on staff or inside to be on these threads please?

The Mac/PC netrender is listed under the big read headline "What's on the roadmap this year".

So is network render back now, or later?
If later, when later?

Thanks

[mojave]

Quick bump, can we get someone on staff or inside to be on these threads please?

The Mac/PC netrender is listed under the big read headline "What's on the roadmap this year".

So is network render back now, or later?
If later, when later?

Thanks

Hi, that entire section contains updates that are meant to happen as part of the 2023 release cycle but not in 2023.1. The specific feature you are referring to is under the umbrella of the geometry pipeline overhaul that is coming in 2023.2.

[J.C]

Enabling "Fog environment contribution" results in funky image.