The many core issues holding Octane back

[leave2]

Agree 100%. Personally, I could care less about many of these big speculative features that are announced once a year (and seemingly stay in beta/development forever), and I would much rather have smaller incremental changes that are less sexy, but make Octane a more production focused tool.

One thing I've noticed in looking through some of the different Octane forums and the Facebook page, is that people will often ask for fixes or various features, and the devs will answer why any change is not possible because there is some limitation in Octane Core, or some other reason, pointing the finger to someone else. It makes me wonder if there is anyone in charge and actually overseeing the bigger picture for Octane's development.

A real roadmap would be a helpful. The Redshift devs, for example, keep a Trello board which is updated regularly - and I think that works quite well in communicating what they are actively working on in each release.

I love Octane - it looks great, it doesn't have a bunch of fussy settings to deal with, and its speed really makes it a joy to use. But I think it should strive to stay competitve with other production focused renderers.

This is absolutely true.

"I have a problem with Octane"

"Octane doesn't have any problems"

"Well, I have one.."

"Then the problem is you".

[Martange]

I second everything I read here and that would take a simple discussion to make this more civil.

The community is a bit at a loss as there are so few people from Otoy answering these boards and taking care of the people using it. We are all artists, developers, enthusiasts and engineers and there is simply no way on the internet to have a clear roadmap and a frank discussion with the people involved.

We love the tool but its current state and roadmap is so shady. My company has been in a constant struggle to clear the licence problem on render farms with you people, they even started to talk about dropping Octane for Redshift altogether because of this strange communication saying that you are working on it when you clearly don't. I am the one fighting against it internally but it's getting tiring.

I guess the harsh words are proportional to the love we have for this engine. We just need more transparency and a say in the next priorities as we are all professionals here.

[bepeg4d]

Hi guys,

We have a trello board for OctaneRender for C4D here now:
https://trello.com/b/1HYU24R0/octanec4d

About activation issues, changing it is not a joke, I can ensure you that the devs are working on it, but I cannot say more, sorry.

Happy GPU rendering!

ciao,
Beppe