Octane 2 developments

[face_off]

Yes - it has been released, and..

"For a limited time, users who upgrade to OctaneRender™ 2 can also upgrade an existing plugin license at no additional cost to make use of an available OctaneRender™ 2 plugin or receive a voucher towards a forthcoming plugin".

Paul

[samhal]

Like, right now! Log in, go to your account's Downloads page, select "OctaneRender for Smith Micro Poser" from the drop-down, and voilà! You need to upgrade to Octane Standalone 2.0 to activate it (99 Euros, comes with one free plug-in upgrade).

I've been playing with it a little bit, and I am psyched. Displacement mapping looks great so far, IBL + Daylight looks great, subdivision looks great, strand hair looks...well, like strand hair, but that's Poser's fault. Area render is freaking awesome - I never fully appreciated how useful it could be with Octane.

The interface quirks from 1.50 seem to be gone (e.g., changing from RGB Image to Grayscale Image keeps the same image file, as in pre-1.50), and maybe I didn't notice before but there's now a Clay Mode option and subsampling options, just like in Standalone.

Paul, I love you.

Done Deal! Proud new owner of Octane 2/plugin!

Thanks Paul! And dsyee!

[ch0pper]

ok so i upgraded. the poser plugin. to version 2 do have still upgrade.

OctaneRender™ Standalone v1.x License? to version 2.

Yes - it has been released, and..

"For a limited time, users who upgrade to OctaneRender™ 2 can also upgrade an existing plugin license at no additional cost to make use of an available OctaneRender™ 2 plugin or receive a voucher towards a forthcoming plugin".

Paul

[face_off]

ok so i upgraded. the poser plugin. to version 2 do have still upgrade.

OctaneRender™ Standalone v1.x License? to version 2.

Chopper - you update Octane Standalone from 1.0 to 2.0, then you get a free upgrade of the Poser plugin from 1.0 to 2.0.

Paul

[mlru]

YAY!

[petermax]

hi, can you install both plugins?

I heard v2.0 is much slower so I want to be able keep the old for when I need the speed and don't use the advanced features.

thanks

[face_off]

hi, can you install both plugins?

I heard v2.0 is much slower so I want to be able keep the old for when I need the speed and don't use the advanced features.

All the reports I've seen indicate that the samples per second might be slower, but the noise cleans up with less samples. I doubt you will see renders taking longer in Octane 2.0.

It is best to not open pz3's with Octane 1.5 installed if they were saved with the Octane 2.0 plugin. So pls discard your Octane 1.5 install and just have 2.0 installed.

Paul

[TRRazor]

Thanks Paul and Otoy for this very, very user-friendly price-policy on 2.0
Really appreciate this!

[Witpapier]

Just a quick Displacement test of 2.0

[samhal]

Just a quick Displacement test of 2.0

Pretty cool! I like it!

Unfortunately its a PITA when it comes to veins and such...or maybe I don't know what I'm doing.