OctaneRender® 2022.1 XB 2

[Kalua]

Hi, team
Amazing release so far.
Something I noticed:
light materials options such as "Visible on diffuse" and "Visible on Specular" are not working when a specular material is set ON with "Allow Caustics".
Maybe we need more options or an improved "Ray switch" node?
Regards,

[jobigoud]

Maybe we need more options or an improved "Ray switch" node?

The ray switch node has a new option for "Photon ray", see if this could help.

[Kalua]

Maybe we need more options or an improved "Ray switch" node?

The ray switch node has a new option for "Photon ray", see if this could help.

Thanks for the heads-up. I see now.
I will give it a try when Aoktar implements it on C4D plugin side.
Regards,

[nibbler]

Thanks Beppe,

I am sorry... but since Feb 2021 we are informed, that there will be cross platform render node Mac/Win support in "next version" (see history below).
2021.1 passed, 2022.2, 2022 ... ? Redshift has it already for years.

We love Octane, but stability issues and missing cross platform node makes it a hard one to stay loyal for Pro customers.

Simple future platform invest question:
Will it be implemented in the 2022 Public Release: Yes or not?


thx for your work and you feedback




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History log:


Re: MIXED OS NETWORK RENDERING
by Goldorak » Sat Feb 06, 2021 9:04 pm
The soonest this can happen is after the first 2021.1 stable release is out at which point Metal and CUDA will be fully in sync feature wise and we can see if at that point net render will be viable between the two for that update or the next one after.


Re: OctaneRender® 2022.1 XB 1
by aoktar » Wed Jun 01, 2022 8:41 pm
nibbler wrote:
Is there a cinema 4d Plugin aviable for 2022.1 XB 1 MAC?

Maybe with XB2


Re: OctaneRender® 2022.1 XB 2
by bepeg4d » Thu Jul 07, 2022 9:38 am
nibbler wrote:
is there a 2022.1 xb2 version matching cinema 4d plugin aviable for osx?

thx for feedback


No sorry, only Standalone for now, C4D-OctaneX plugin should arrive with 2022.1-XB3.

ciao,
Beppe

[vurt]

hey, will the full release of 2022.1 be native on Apple Silicon arm64? so we could run the plugins on the native builds of DCCs like native Houdini or C4D? Instead of loading it through emulation but rendering on Apple GPU?
thnx

[bepeg4d]

@nibbler and vurt:
Yes, we are in late with M1 support, probably for someone else was more easy, but having a spectral unbiased render engine native for M1 was not trivial!
And we are making big progress at each update.
Now in XB2, Standalone for M1 is almost complete.
The plan is to have a full native plugins SDK for M1 in XB3.
Then we will explore the possibility to have cross platform Network rendering between CUDA and Metal.
Fingers crossed!

ciao,
Beppe

[3dworks]

@nibbler and vurt:
Yes, we are in late with M1 support, probably for someone else was more easy, but having a spectral unbiased render engine native for M1 was not trivial!
And we are making big progress at each update.
Now in XB2, Standalone for M1 is almost complete.
The plan is to have a full native plugins SDK for M1 in XB3.
Then we will explore the possibility to have cross platform Network rendering between CUDA and Metal.
Fingers crossed!

ciao,
Beppe

Thanks for this update, Beppe! Having the cross platform network rendering is paramount for many of us because of our past investments into GPU's with CUDA. Personally I did expand my Macs with an ethernet connected Windows server + GPU Box with a total of 5 GPU's. Currently I'm still working under MacOS High Sierra on my old MacPro with Octane 2020 Mac CUDA just for having this render power for previews, as the MacBook Pro M1 MAX is not powerful enough for fast previewing complex scenes and cannot be connected to CUDA nodes. Would be a big relief to see this capacity soon.

[spectacle]

Any progress on AMD support in MacOS? Or has the transition to M series chips changed long term plans? Looking forward to that photon kernel.
Thanks!

[bullet0830bs]

When will OctaneRender 2022.1 XB 3 Standalone and C4DPlugin be released?
I’m so excited about Brigade!

[nibbler]

Hi Beppe,

thanks for this update. We are aware, that every progress brings in its own complexity generating again new priorities. But unfortunalety it raises expectations as well. And we enjoyed all the progress in the last years, Otoy/Octane did.

Therefore I think we all keep the fingers crossed, that the "exploring the possbilities" is more a reliable roadmap


In-between-Solution approach.
I am not that deep into the topic as you are obviously, but maybe one kind of solution could be:
instead of developing a perfect synched "realtime" cross platform rendering, at least to have some kind of management/Render server app, e.g. similar to maxons team render. A small octane application, where we could load up scenes and the "compiling", scene-distrubution and transformation to every octane node would be made automatically via batch job. This App could generate the distribution to PC/WIN and/or Linux and/or Mac Clients. They would get their own dedicated scene rendering part (eg separated within their platform specific connectivity). A bit like your "Cloud Rendering" where everything is collected, uploaded and automatically managed.

Avoiding the hassle of realtime sync (eg several clients collaboratively working on ONE sequence or one big rendering image). By slicing the sequence and dedicate single frames to a specific node platform cluster.

Is this possible?


Situation: At the moment its a hassle:
Creating scene on Mac (Cinema 4d), preparing distribution to production Render System via assembling files, data, textures. Copying to PC/WIN Production Render Network Master (Cinema 4d). Starting intial test renderings on Win network master (ensure valid collection of assets), again setting manually parameters (res, output file, datapathes, kernels etc.), starting render sequence. Counting Frames, Re-render drops.

To be honest – this is an annoying, time-consumptioning "process", which can - in worst case - delay and blow up a whole production scheduling.

A comparison:
In (by the way very stable) Redshift I put my job into team render app, all aviable nodes and team render clients (independent from platform) immediately are identified and connected, and all render job settings are automatically set/synched. Even coop on one 20k Single Frame is possible.

Again, the quality of octane is impressive and the only reason, why I stick with you, despite the fact that there is no such a good renderer aviable for mac ... but some other are catching up and offering a very attractive cross platform batch render process.

Thanks for your valuable work for creatives, your engagement again. Please let us know what is possible and what not ...

@nibbler and vurt:
Yes, we are in late with M1 support, probably for someone else was more easy, but having a spectral unbiased render engine native for M1 was not trivial!
And we are making big progress at each update.
Now in XB2, Standalone for M1 is almost complete.
The plan is to have a full native plugins SDK for M1 in XB3.
Then we will explore the possibility to have cross platform Network rendering between CUDA and Metal.
Fingers crossed!

ciao,
Beppe