Refractive Software (Octane), purchased by Otoy.

[radiance]

Do you still have a job with Octane development or are you moving along?

Thanks for 99 euro gift. I make a gift of 1000 + detailed helpful posts for fellow users = probably 80+ hours of my time = 999 euro

Edit: btw we have been through the brecht bit before and Cycles is different code based on nvidia

Yes, I will remain in charge of development, i added with an EDIT that to my post above...

Radiance

[pixelrush]

Sorry Otoy are out of luck as far as me providing 'support' for another couple of months goes.
Not like I will never need to work again as a result.

[ROUBAL]

Well, it is reassuring ! These past days have been very scary !

[tyrot]

thanks God for the "RED sentences!" !!!!

[vinz]

Thanks for the update
well we'll see what the future holds...

[radiant]

If it is under $300 and the updates are free [excluding 2.0] then I'm happy. It would be good to see the new Bi-dir pmc kernel with some instances soon
i dont think i can wait another 2-3 months for another release.

[jipe]

I guess this is everyone's reward for two years of waiting: the chance that Octane might be usable in many people's actual workflows. All we have to do is wait some more, shell out another $130 for a plugin to our software package of choice, then wait some more for the day OTOY ships Octane 1.0.

p.s. Asking for users to provide free support on this forum, while simultaneously talking about how you never need to worry about money again, is either naive or daft (or both). Some of us have sat quietly for (literally) years, waiting for Octane to become a product that we can use in our day-to-day production workflow. We're still waiting. And you know what would be nice? If you offered a plugin of choice to beta users who supported your program even when it was nothing more than a proof of concept, rather than encouraging us to spend more money just so we can get around Octane standalone's shortcomings. Please stop making excuses and ship a product.

[thwak]

Asking for users to provide free support on this forum, while simultaneously talking about how you never need to worry about money again, is either naive or daft (or both). Some of us have sat quietly for (literally) years, waiting for Octane to become a product that we can use in our day-to-day production workflow. We're still waiting.

Couldn't have said it better myself. Demanding even more from a community that you have fallen way short on your promises to while simultaneously bragging about your windfall as a result of that continued shortchanging of us is just beyond greed and entitlement mentality. Only the 'daft and naive' would comply to your request. Have fun spending your money.

[t_3]

Some of us have sat quietly for (literally) years, waiting for Octane to become a product that we can use in our day-to-day production workflow. We're still waiting.

what are you waiting for? afaik there are a lot of people using octane in their day to day workflow, and it is quite on par with its competitors out there, if not ahead; only these are five to ten times more expensive.

And you know what would be nice? If you offered a plugin of choice to beta users who supported your program even when it was nothing more than a proof of concept, rather than encouraging us to spend more money just so we can get around Octane standalone's shortcomings.

yeah, that would be nice, if he likes to ruin his company. he could have asked 500 euros for his product to pay more developers than he is able to do now, and still everyone would be complaining; or maybe not, because those people would have never been in. but we still all hope for the revolutionary invention, that makes software program itself over night...

[Q-Games]

I guess this is everyone's reward for two years of waiting: the chance that Octane might be usable in many people's actual workflows. All we have to do is wait some more, shell out another $130 for a plugin to our software package of choice, then wait some more for the day OTOY ships Octane 1.0.

p.s. Asking for users to provide free support on this forum, while simultaneously talking about how you never need to worry about money again, is either naive or daft (or both). Some of us have sat quietly for (literally) years, waiting for Octane to become a product that we can use in our day-to-day production workflow. We're still waiting. And you know what would be nice? If you offered a plugin of choice to beta users who supported your program even when it was nothing more than a proof of concept, rather than encouraging us to spend more money just so we can get around Octane standalone's shortcomings. Please stop making excuses and ship a product.

I'm sorry, but what are you complaining for?! Octane costs 99 Euros, which is NOTHING compared to what it offers, even if it's far for being complete.
I am the Art Director of my company, and one day, tired of spending hours behind dozen of Mental Ray settings, and his deadly slowness, I started searching the net for a faster and easier solution, so I found Octane Render. I tried the demo for just ONE HOUR, and then I immediately had a meeting with all the artists of the company to show them this amazing, yet simple software. Since then, we are all using it every day in our workflow. Sure, there are lots of features missing, and lots of bugs, but for the price we paid, it is great.
I really hope Refractive Software will continue working and improving this great software, and they will have my support.
If you are not satisfied with it, go buy $995 of Maxwell render license. There are plenty of (expensive) alternatives out there.

Sorry for my bad english.