OctaneRender V4 XB3

Tue Jun 19, 2018 2:39 pm

Dear otoy,
please don't forget about foam, mist, splash shaders for octane 4 (phoenix fd or 3ds max liquids). All renderes out there already have foam shaders like arnold, vray we still dont

Thanks

Tue Jun 19, 2018 5:55 pm

Will it be possible to enable the denoiser without restarting the render? Nothing else in the imager requires a restart.

Tue Jun 19, 2018 5:56 pm

funk wrote:Now that Octane 4 is out (in beta), I'd like to ask about the rounded edge improvements that were discussed in previous presentations by Jules.

Is this still happening? I really love Octane but the rounded edge feature is a real let down. We really need something better.

https://render.otoy.com/requests/?qa=12 ... ge-shading

Improved rounded edges have been announced in our roadmap for v3.10.
What we plan is to keep the current implementation, which just works in some cases and which is extremely fast compared to most renderers and add a new "accurate" option that will hopefully solve the current issues and add extra functionality.

Jules, can you please let us know what's going on with rounded edges?

Tue Jun 19, 2018 10:19 pm

I've noticed that if you have an object textured with camera projection and a perspective correction checked in thin lens camera it actually affects the texturing of that object which is not a desirable behavior. Perspective correction should only correct the geometry not the texturing of it.

Currently I can't match correct camera projection texturing and perspective correction when using background images taken with tilt shift camera.

Wed Jun 20, 2018 5:47 pm

Q - Without denoiser - Is Octane V4 measurably faster than Octane V3?
1 - If YES, why the heck even bother with development on V3?
2 - if NO, what the heck!?

PS - heck

Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:13 pm

@Notiusweb : I want your drugs !!!!

Wed Jun 20, 2018 8:40 pm

Notiusweb wrote:Q - Without denoiser - Is Octane V4 measurably faster than Octane V3?
1 - If YES, why the heck even bother with development on V3?
2 - if NO, what the heck!?

PS - heck

No for the XB3, I hope that when release, V4 will be faster than V3.

Wed Jun 20, 2018 9:01 pm

Didn't see if anyone responded to the crashes yet, but here's what I found. It seems to be related to alembic or fbx geometry.

I'm specifically shipping mine out of blender. Whenever I ship those geos out, and try to render them in Octane, it seems to crash octane.

Wed Jun 20, 2018 9:28 pm

Notiusweb wrote:Q - Without denoiser - Is Octane V4 measurably faster than Octane V3?
1 - If YES, why the heck even bother with development on V3?
2 - if NO, what the heck!?
:twisted:

PS - heck

We are working on speed in two ways:
1. increasing the number of samples that arrive for tonemapping in the same delta time
2. increasing the quality of those samples in the same time

Our focus currently is #2, meaning that in general in V4, you don't need as many samples for the same level of noise/error (actually that means that the MS/sec measurement as speed becomes less important)

With XB4 there will be some more improvements, and you should be able to see a good improvement across most of your scenes.

Wed Jun 20, 2018 9:38 pm

arvinmoses0122 wrote:Didn't see if anyone responded to the crashes yet, but here's what I found. It seems to be related to alembic or fbx geometry.

I'm specifically shipping mine out of blender. Whenever I ship those geos out, and try to render them in Octane, it seems to crash octane.

Can you send one for me to check please? Thanks