new features of OctaneRender™ 3.00 (updated 10.8.)

[radiant]

Looks like a nice patch of tutorials for me to hand out, once ive gotten my head around the new features.
Good job OTOY and marcus (as well as other developers)

[prodviz]

Sorry, just to clarify, is that the 'procedural microfacet displacement primitives' which haven't been developed further?

We never said anything about 'procedural microfacet displacement primitives'. The stuff Andrey had been working works totally different and is definitely not microfacets.

I like the idea of baking the procedurals for displacement.
C4D and Lightwave already work with procedural displacement. I guess this must be Software dependent.

I would very much like this feature in Maya.

I think the plugins that provide this feature, bake the procedurals into image textures using some functions, that are provided by the host application. And as far as I know, that works only for procedurals that are native to the host app.

I have asked about this feature multiple times...which reminds me of a quote from The Shawshank Redemption:

Andy Dufresne: "Wow. It only took six years. From now on, I’ll write two letters a week, instead of one."



Cheers.

Here is the deal: If you can gift us 2 years of time, we give you those kind of features tomorrow...

As Uncia mentioned:

'...including volumetric light field primitives and procedural microfacet displacement primitives..'

from
https://home.otoy.com/otoy-unveils-octa ... -renderer/
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7GkD ... 3ZyQnF6bEk
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As for your deal, how's 1 year and 7 months :

The first mention of displacement in other apps, posted in the Maya forum is from 1 year and 7 months ago (May 15th 2014). Not far off 2 years :

'The movies showing live displacement and motion blur (through C4D) look awesome.':
viewtopic.php?f=28&t=39849&p=184668#p184668

And a clear ask for procedural displacement is from 1 year and 3 months ago:
'Any developments, on procedural displacement (whether maya's or Octane's) like Lightwave and C4D?'
viewtopic.php?f=28&t=38489&p=201253#p201253

Thanks again for all the work, but procedural displacement would be a super addition.

Cheers

[Goldorak]

'...including volumetric light field primitives and procedural microfacet displacement primitives..'

We didn't have a good name to call the solid volume primitive type that we had in these early V3 builds - and still don't, as no other engine or tool we know of can render or use this type of data.

As Marcus mentioned, we decided not to focus on this for the first 3.00 release given the lack of tools and the compute intensive processes needed to build them into a form that Octane could render.

We plan to look at this again once 3.00 is released, along with other volumetric object types The light field rendering work is being done on top of the core engine - and may be handled entirely through OSL if that works out to our satisfaction. We'll know more once OSL is fully hooked up.

[Rikk The Gaijin]

I also did a quick test for performance, using my heavy Fushimi Inari scene, and here's the result:

Octane v2.24 rendered 256 samples in 8:05, 0.50 Ms/s, 1869 MB used.

Octane v3 alpha1 (test 1) rendered 256 samples in 7:18, 0.56 Ms/s, 2186 MB used, Parallel sample 8, Max. tile samples 8.
Octane v3 alpha1 (test 2) rendered 256 samples in 6:46, 0.61 Ms/s, 2527 MB used, Parallel sample 16, Max. tile samples 8.
Octane v3 alpha1 (test 3) rendered 256 samples in 6:46, 0.63 Ms/s, 2527 MB used, Parallel sample 16, Max. tile samples 16.

The scene was render on two GTX 980 Ti, standard clock.

Changing the 'Max. tile samples' hardly have any effect, but it's worth noting that my render hangs if I change that value during rendering.

Will it be possible to increase the Parallel sample to 32 or even 64? With 6GB cards I have plenty of memory left...

[prehabitat]

Octane v2.24 rendered 256 samples in 8:05, 0.50 Ms/s, 1869 MB used.
Octane v3 alpha1 (test 3) rendered 256 samples in 6:46, 0.63 Ms/s, 2527 MB used, Parallel sample 16, Max. tile samples 16.

Nice 16% time reduction; not bad!

pretty efficient scene too!

[prodviz]

abstrax wrote:

'I think the plugins that provide this feature, bake the procedurals into image textures using some functions, that are provided by the host application. And as far as I know, that works only for procedurals that are native to the host app.'

Yes, I think you're right. The procedural displacement (in C4D & Lightwave) appears to be achieved by a baking to file on the fly, unless I'm wrong.

I appreciate that this is something perhaps for the Maya forum, but there is a bake to texture file command in Maya, an example of some of the mel being:

'convertSolidTx -antiAlias 1 -bm 1 -fts 1 -sp 0 -sh 0 -alpha 0 -doubleSided 0 -componentRange 0 -resolutionX 2048 -resolutionY 2048 -fileFormat "png" fractal1.outColor pSphere1;'

But then there's the problem of being able to edit this on the fly.

Someone with mel or python experience might be able to help with this.

Cheers

[FrankPooleFloating]

Yes, Juanjo did indeed add procedural baking on the fly (real-time) in Octane plug, and it is quite wonderful. I think he added this when v2 came out. There are buttloads of LW procedurals, and we can pretty much use them all, and not just for displacement, but all texturing. Currently, they can be baked up to 4k. I believe he said 8k is coming. Again, this is real-time and just a matter of plugging a LW (or Octane) procedural into an Octane texture image node and setting scale and bake res.

[prodviz]

Yes, Juanjo did indeed add procedural baking on the fly (real-time) in Octane plug, and it is quite wonderful. I think he added this when v2 came out. There are buttloads of LW procedurals, and we can pretty much use them all, and not just for displacement, but all texturing. Currently, they can be baked up to 4k. I believe he said 8k is coming. Again, this is real-time and just a matter of plugging a LW (or Octane) procedural into an Octane texture image node and setting scale and bake res.

Man! Sounds super.
I started out in Lightwave, so must say, I'm a little envious

[RobSteady]

Thanks for the tests, Rikk
Looks pretty good; waiting to make some tests in 3ds Max...

[SVITAdmin]

Awesome. Can't wait.

Any re-thinking done on that 12 GPU limit for V3? It's killing me on the inside having 8 Titan's here that I can't use currently over the network.