OctaneRender® 2022.1 XB 3

[haze]

is a render node for M1 macs coming?

Not at first, we're still determining customer appetite for it at the moment.

[haze]

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Can we expect this in octane 2022?

It's quite involved to do it right, so to get 2022.1 to RC faster it had to be pushed out, but should be coming later this year.

[3dworks]

is a render node for M1 macs coming?

Not at first, we're still determining customer appetite for it at the moment.

apparently the new M1 / M2 macbooks are selling extremely well - would be great to be able to use them for rendering. btw. here's also a customer who's still interested in getting a version for mac + AMD as well...

[Hesekiel2517]

Yes, ok that was a little bit misleading. I mean i want to make the lightsource unvisible to the camera. The lightbeam should stay though

[Hesekiel2517]

Did you try one of these two options? Any light > Object Layer (properties)
General or Camera visibility.

Yes, that's my whole point Outside the volume this works perfectly, inside the volume not.

[john_otoy]

Works really great! I noticed one thing. If a light is inside a volume turning off the lightsource itself is not possible. You can work around this by creating a bubble around your light with the same material as the volume and inverted normals.

I tried a quick test and camera/general visibility seem to be hiding the light geometry as expected, although you can still see the light affecting the volume.

Can you attach or PM me the scene, so we can see exactly what you're doing? Please include the problem and your solution.

[Hesekiel2517]

Hey there,

i tried it again and suddenly it works. Very strange, but cool! I'm sorry, that I bothered you!

[J.C]

When toggling realtime button rendering the rendering goes 150% slower.

[coilbook]

There is still a pure firefly moving noise when a light hits a specular material and then reflects in the another specular material. I think nothing was ever done about it since octane was created. Maybe you can implement some kind of cheat to solve it? Thanks

[bepeg4d]

When toggling realtime button rendering the rendering goes 150% slower.

Hi,
please note that Real Time works only with 1x GPU.
So if you have a multi GPU machine, this is expected.

ciao,
Beppe