OctaneRender® pre-Beta 2.4 (win x64) [OBSOLETE]

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Jaberwocky
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My best Guess is use 2 emitters.1 set to zero and the other set to full opacity at the same X/Y/Z coordinates.
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Jaberwocky wrote:My best Guess is use 2 emitters.1 set to zero and the other set to full opacity at the same X/Y/Z coordinates.
Wouldn't that re-introduce the darkness?
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matej wrote: That's a semi-useful hack. And if you need to see the emitter?
That has to be corrected. Currently I thought that might help ones who are suffering.

From what I am currently testing,
In order to see the caustics passing through a specular material, that is lit with a emissive material you have to make the material not transparent. but to see the alpha shadow it has to be zeroed out..

So it is between the devil and deep sea :)
Hope to have the fix soon.
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Hi everyone,

This 2.4 ver is slightly faster than 2.3 v5 (around 10% faster) on my gtx 580. I use 263.09 drivers, i didn't have any dark lines nor problems displaying actual number of cuda cores, so i guess this speed improvement is due to cuda 3.2 implementation (on my system 2.3 v5 is also using all 512 cores so there's no difference there....)

Here's some test images:
Octane-2.3_v5.jpg
06:16 = 376 sec
Octane-2.4.jpg
05:42 = 342 sec

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lol still no file name and path in Octane render window title... well, next time
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sublime
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@matej:
That's a semi-useful hack. And if you need to see the emitter?
Photoshop it..!!
lol
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dadou351
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Excellent build :D

The next version 2.5 --> displacement ? lol

good work !!!
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msciwiarski
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Hi,

Octane 2.4 still has unexpected crashes when I try to manipulate with node connection in graph editor :(

cheers

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colorlabs
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Great to see a release made!! Exciting new stuff!

Just a note, on my Palit 460 2GB I'm seeing a 12-21% speedup in pathtracing - 1.25 in benchmark to 1.41 w/alphashadows, 1.51 without. Not bad, but not I seem to remember a 50% increase was suggested :)
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abstrax
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oguzbir wrote:
Elvissuperstar007 wrote:luminescent materials do not pass through the alpha channel! ((
@Elvissuperstar007

I made it work man. :)
If you happen to make the opacity of the Emissive material to 0 (zero)
than you will see the alpha mapped shadow. :D
Its good to solve it without the need of a new release. :)

See below.
Thanks man! That gave us the actual hint, where the problem lies: The light is shadowing itself... That should be solvable.

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