Octane 1.5 features revealed!

[pixelrush]

I hate to say it but the ongoing story of Octane has been 'under-delivering'.
I find it hard to believe that the reason for the current slow pace is that cuda is hard to utilise. Perhaps the program architecture is not so well laid out for the further extension of functionality and development is somewhat cornered by it?.
Octane started out as being a very promising technology and it surely could have gone further than it has in the time with better direction although resources have been tight .
I think its fair to say that competitors have come from behind and now have it over Octane for whatever reason.
There was the Refractive period when things looked distinctly terminal more than once and the user community all but walked but thankfully we got through that.
Under Otoy although things have picked up it seems that the coders now really arent actually deployed on tackling the practical stuff people want but rather are messing around with clouds, holograms and bits geared to gaming, video, streaming etc. Possibly that perception is not fair however these things are not really a priority for render artists although Otoy themselves are obviously keenly interested in those applications and leveraging what Octane does.
I really think Otoy should consider re-purposing their intended endeavors so as to satisfy the desire for some enhancements that will allow people to do more useful work with Octane itself first.

[cfrank78]

I hate to say it but the ongoing story of Octane has been 'under-delivering'.
I find it hard to believe that the reason for the current slow pace is that cuda is hard to utilise. Perhaps the program architecture is not so well laid out for the further extension of functionality and development is somewhat cornered by it?.
Octane started out as being a very promising technology and it surely could have gone further than it has in the time with better direction although resources have been tight .
I think its fair to say that competitors have come from behind and now have it over Octane for whatever reason.
There was the Refractive period when things looked distinctly terminal more than once and the user community all but walked but thankfully we got through that.
Under Otoy although things have picked up it seems that the coders now really arent actually deployed on tackling the practical stuff people want but rather are messing around with clouds, holograms and bits geared to gaming, video, streaming etc. Possibly that perception is not fair however these things are not really a priority for render artists although Otoy themselves are obviously keenly interested in those applications and leveraging what Octane does.
I really think Otoy should consider re-purposing their intended endeavors so as to satisfy the desire for some enhancements that will allow people to do more useful work with Octane itself first.

Word! Nothing more to say to. You found the perfect words! I dont know too, if its fair to say, but its simply the truth! When is truth, when its not "nice", ever fair?

Chris!

[Chris]

A roadmap with a "When its done" stamp would have calmed a lot of people i think.

Just my two cents.

Cheers

[NVN]

for me the update sounds not good.
No MB, no Displacement, no features like exclude from Camera, no sunlight with hdri...for me it going in the wrong direction.

Do you know how real 3D motion blur works under the hood, not fake 2D MB? render engine must have at least 2 or more object states - transformation/deformation for MB calculation. Alembic support - is solid base for things like MB, you need just more patience.
P.S. thank you, OTOY team, for alembic support in near future

MB is not on my first point.
Important for me is diffrent Evironments...they are absolut essential.
No one wrote something, if possible or not.
My opinion is, that things are being developed to help users more likely to standalone-Version.

[FrankPooleFloating]

Chris, for the record, I agree with much of what you and pix said - and was not poking fun at you or your horned pals.

pixelrush, you did nail it. It is quite irritating to see all those resources used on tech that has very little or nothing to do with our day-to-day work as artists.

But I am giving Otoy a little more benefit-of-the-doubt than you guys and here is why: I want Otoy to be wildly successful in all of their endeavors - so that they are in great shape as a company. Few things would suck worse than investing all this in Octane, only to have Otoy go tits-up.

And maybe it is time for Otoy to not only do some more hiring, but perhaps some pillaging too. A couple companies that clearly have some extraordinary talent is Pixologic and Quixel... start there!

[j7th]

Important for me is diffrent Evironments...they are absolut essential.
No one wrote something, if possible or not.
My opinion is, that things are being developed to help users more likely to standalone-Version.

Agree, it's important.

[brue]

I'm going to stick up for the Octane guys here. Coding for GPU is not easy. Far from it. With how fast cuda is moving, and open subdiv it would be silly for them to spend the dev time implementing an older motion blur or displacement process.

[gordonrobb]

Who wants an 'older motion blur' process? I think I have the latest card. I want a new motion blur process.

[merid888]

marcus, when i can get the new versión 1.50 for standalone ? and finally for 3ds max ?
thank you for share your comments !!
gil

[Karba]

Regarding speed improvement...

New light sampling makes sense only in case of huge amount of triangles like here (~130.000 lights)

Old light sampling can't handle it properly

Real projects usually don't contain so many light (here is about 20 light)

New light sampling still gives less noise

Old one produces slightly more noise