OctaneRender® 1.024 beta 2.47 (lin/mac/win) [OBSOLETE]

[Jaberwocky]

Thanks for pmc to test Radiance.

Typing this whilst PMC is cooking a scene.

I'll post Pathtracing and PMC on here using 1000 & 32000 samples on a real firefly killer scene as soon as its ready (1 GTX 460) so this may take a while

The scene - a real firefly killer

Empty enclosed room with no windows , 1 glossy wood floor, plenty of bump maps and just 1 single small bulb hanging from the ceiling as a blackbody emitter.

Let the testing begin

[hadouken]

oh snap!!!! Can't wait to try this! Thanks team!

[Timmaigh]

Uh-oh, i tried to run both cores cause of the above post stating it there is a speed-up although not linear.... i thought based on the OP statement, multiGPU is not working at all...
and i found:
its not working with pathtracing, i get the same 4,29 Ms as when running one core only
but with PMC its rendering at 6,68 Ms! that is 2x more than 3,29 Ms i got while trying to run with one core only

so it seems it works, at least partially...

[mirobimbo]

I have tested now release in interior scene and here are my results:
Rendertime 5 min.

[kubo]

thanks, currently testing with an outside night scene full of fireflies. Althou I might be doing something wrong cause I added the disperssion value (0.012 for the glass and 0.02 for water, the glass one I got from wiki, the water is just random) and it's converging faster but it's giving some strange colours on the glass and water, dunno quite why. Also this scene was done with 2.45 I think and light emmiter values are all wrong, so I might have to tweak it further, but I was anxious to see it, lol. I'll post some test later on.
again, thanks.

[Mugga]

Hey,

first of all big thanks for that pre-release.

I've also tested the new kernel, but not on an firefly scene with much light. The lighting from my testscene is only coming from an hdri.

In my scene, the new kernel is much slower compared to the pathtracing. With PCM i'm getting around 0.54 Ms/sec with my GTX 260, where pathtracing is at 2.00 Ms/sec.

Here the rendertime for 250 samples:
Pathtracing: 00:01:45
PMC: 00:07:46
Directlight: 00:00:42

But as others already encountered the overall system responsiveness is much greater with the new kernel. If the other kernels would achive the same responsiveness is would be awesome. It makes much more fun that way. But maybe this is because of the new cuda version (i also got a second video card installed gtx 430, but i disabled it for octane).

[ribrahomedesign]

Hi there.
working now .thanks to the developer team
rendering a loft conversion with a triangular ceiling and lots of lights (impossible with pathtracing )
cant wait to share
Rico

[abstrax]

Cool... Finally:)

The new Release seems to need a muchhigher exposure number to receive the same lighting result. Please 'level this down' so that it is closer to the direct lighting preview engine.

What do you mean? Could you please post an example?

Cheers,
Marcus

[abstrax]

Windows 32bit version too, please, i am on Vista 32bit at work

We will build a 32bit version next week. We just didn't get around to do it this week.

Cheers,
Marcus

[abstrax]

2.47 works just fine with the latest drivers (Linux 270.41.19).

2.46b does not work with CUDA 4.0 (error while loading shared libraries: libcudart.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), but this is not really a problem since I plan to do just some tests and then go back to CUDA 3.2

Ah, ok thanks for the feedback.

Cheers,
Marcus