OTOY Forums

Hi all,
just a recap of the major features that have been developed in the last seven months.

3.06:

• Adaptive Sampling
  Infinite Plane
  New Texture nodes (Triplanar, Add, Subtract, ecc.)
  Normal Mix
  Displacement filter
  Shadow Pass
  CUDA 8 support
  New Net Render

3.07:

• New Emission system (Transparent, Double side, ecc.)
  Instance ID
  Baking texture
  UVW transform texture
  Baking UV transform
  Support for FBX and glTF
  Bone system

3.08:

• OSL texture/projection/camera nodes
  Toon shading
  Specular reflection and refraction models
  Metal material node
  Custom LUT support in tone-mapping
  Additional response curves
  Improved clay rendering
  Fixed Displacement geometry crack

Happy GPU Rendering
ciao beppe

bepeg4d wrote:...

3.07:
New Emission system (Transparent, Double side, ecc.)
...

3.08:
...
Specular reflection and refraction models
Metal material node
...

may i have a question please?
keeping in mind a discussion earlier on, in which the breaking of continuity in lighting-looks (compared to pre-3.07) due to the "New Emission system (Transparent, Double side, ecc.)" in 3.07 had been worked out:
do the changes that are being introduced in 3.08 ( haven't tried it, because i wanted to wait until a correspondig plug-version is available) mean, that with 3.08 generally all metrials (with the exception of non-specualar/reflective/refractive materials... so... plain diffuse ones.... ) made with versions pre-3.08 will look different when rendered with 3.08?

thx.

Hi mesut,
no, the Emission refactoring was a special case, as already explained by abstrax in this post:
viewtopic.php?f=24&t=62395&start=40#p326721
The new options added im 3.08 are not removing the classic Octane specular reflection and refraction model, but adding new features, just like the new Metal material shader, that does not replace the Glossy shader, but offers new options like new Index, and direct PBR support.
If you would like to try, just export your scene to Standalone, and test with latest build, before waiting for the updated plugin.
Happy GPU Rendering,
ciao beppe

bepeg4d wrote:Hi mesut,
no, the Emission refactoring was a special case, as already explained by abstrax in this post:
viewtopic.php?f=24&t=62395&start=40#p326721
The new options added im 3.08 are not removing the classic Octane specular reflection and refraction model, but adding new features, just like the new Metal material shader, that does not replace the Glossy shader, but offers new options like new Index, and direct PBR support.
If you would like to try, just export your scene to Standalone, and test with latest build, before waiting for the updated plugin.
Happy GPU Rendering,
ciao beppe

ah, so the new features are additional and do not replace old settings.
that's great to hear.
thx a lot.

bepeg4d wrote:Hi all,
just a recap of the major features that have been developed in the last seven months.

Happy GPU Rendering
ciao beppe

today 28.11.17

most of the time we have to be beta testers to finally use some new features.

in stable versions there are GUI problems. People just get tired of sending out a bug report or something to write. They have already accumulated dissatisfaction.

look at the interfaces of other renderers and their support (redshift), there are many tutorials (http://insydium.uk/video-manual/)

expample
is this userfriendly in octane? (look attach)

and Yes!
Happy GPU Rendering

"Fixed Displacement geometry crack" in 3.08

Does that mean i can have something other than plane (eg a cube) with displacement without edges explode? Or is there a way atm which i dont know of? thanks

VVG wrote: today 28.11.17

most of the time we have to be beta testers to finally use some new features.

in stable versions there are GUI problems. People just get tired of sending out a bug report or something to write. They have already accumulated dissatisfaction.

look at the interfaces of other renderers and their support (redshift), there are many tutorials (http://insydium.uk/video-manual/)

expample
is this userfriendly in octane? (look attach)

and Yes!
Happy GPU Rendering

It's a design choice of me. It's a scaling parameter to resolution.

thanulee wrote:

for me I finish my last work with octane and after it is Redshift all the time ... bye bye octane ...