OctaneRender® 2023.1 Alpha 1

[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.

[jitendra]

These updates look great.

Can we also please have Matte/shadow material with ability to render reflections as well? (so it will be easy to render product shot against white background with blurred reflections?)
If not matte/shadow reflection material, then can we please have "Render layer AOV" "Render layer reflections" and "Render layer Black shadow AOVs" with denoiser support?

[J.C]

These updates look great.

Can we also please have Matte/shadow material with ability to render reflections as well? (so it will be easy to render product shot against white background with blurred reflections?)
If not matte/shadow reflection material, then can we please have "Render layer AOV" "Render layer reflections" and "Render layer Black shadow AOVs" with denoiser support?

According to release notes more denoised passes are planned for version 2023.2 or later.

Others

We are also aiming to modify and improve the denoiser, which should give us the ability to also separately denoise light passes.

[J.C]

Can somebody explain why there are two BRDF options in Glossy and Universal material node and how to use it?

[martimoo]

Thank you for the cool features! looking forward for Brigade!

On macos the Post processing lens effects is not there(they are accessible and works through AOV), Post Volume is not there and is not accessible with AOV and there is no analytic lights.

On windows everything is there.

[martimoo]

Out of Focus with and without Post Volume: