OctaneRender® 2024.1 Alpha 1

[renderingz]

This 2024.1 alpha is identical to what was stated would be part of 2023.2. What happens to 2023 going forward? Does this mean the geometry updates won't come to 2023?

Also... what happened to all these features you listed as coming in future versions of 2023? Are they coming as part of v2023, are they pushed to v2024?

Also in our plans:
Volumetric user data
Additive materials
Rest position input
Spectral fabric material
Motion blur for HDRI environments
Motion blur for texture displacement
Adaptive subdivision for vertex displacement
New parametric spline and curve primitives
UVW packing for compiled DCC primitives (instead of UV). This can be used by plugins to "pin" procedural textures to deformed textures.
Multi-stream: headless and live linked render across DCCs.
Multi-render: swap to any other engine in seconds.
Multi-engine: for example the full C4D application (with plugins) in Octane core, and also World Creator
Photon tracing / irradiance caching

[nuno1980]

Because...

We now use RT cores for all mesh primitives including hair, spheres and displacement triangles.

For caustics, it's irrational to use the PT kernel when there is the dedicated Photon Tracing kernel.

Ah... Yeah. But I stay PT kernel because Photon Tracing kernel can't render:
-- any lights reflected+refracted;
-- any variable caustics on the glossy ground with and/or on any other glossy/specular material with the roughness of less than 0.3~0.4.

Thank you.

[Kalua]

Brigade ?

https://home.otoy.com/otoys-brigade-eng ... ng-to-all/

I thought the same...
not gonna say anything...
Memory reduction looks like a great improvement.

[jopfe]

Hey there, really promising update!
Any estimations on when the MacOS version will be available?

Thanks in advance

[mbetke]

Brigade ?

https://home.otoy.com/otoys-brigade-eng ... ng-to-all/

I have the same question...its so long announced, but seems to be a dead end.

[coilbook]

Can we get a faster denoiser? Rendering times increase by a factor of 2

[elsksa]

Can we get a faster denoiser? Rendering times increase by a factor of 2

To some, this may sound aggressive, petulant and perceived as impolite (tone of writing). Something to be cautious about.

Regarding the denoiser, which one were you referring to? What hardware/OS/driver configuration?
I would presume the new addition of Intel® Open Image Denoise, but a regression of Octane's own denoiser is also imagineable.

[abstrax]

Hi,

OctaneRender 2024.1 Alpha 1 Standalone for MacOS (not ready yet, will be provided as soon as possible)

So, I can't wait is there some ETA? Want to see finally why I bought M3 MacBook

We are really sorry about the delay. We found some serious regressions very last minute and decided that it doesn't make sense to release the macOS version as it is. We are currently working through these and with some luck we might get an update out end of this week.

[abstrax]

What's on the 2024.x Roadmap for this Year?

Headless rendering with multi-render and multi-engine live linking (Blender, UE, C4D and standalone)

Does this mean we can expect these changes THIS year or 2024? Since theres only 1 month left in 2023, I assume you meant in the production cycle of 2024.

Yes you are correct. Let me fix this in the release notes. This list is for 2024.

[abstrax]

This 2024.1 alpha is identical to what was stated would be part of 2023.2. What happens to 2023 going forward? Does this mean the geometry updates won't come to 2023?

Also... what happened to all these features you listed as coming in future versions of 2023? Are they coming as part of v2023, are they pushed to v2024?

Since 2023.1 took so long to get finalized we decided to roll the 2023.2 changes into 2024.1. We are aiming to get 2024.1 finalized way sooner than 2023.1, so the changes can be used in a production environment as soon as possible.