3.00 development update

[zga042]

Is OpenCL support an 'in progress' thing or a 'never going to happen' thing? Just asking for upgrade purposes.

OpenCL support is never going to happen, Otoy instead works on a compiler to directly use the octane Cuda code on AMD GPU and on other plateform.
Otoy already showed a video of Octane working with a AMD card but aparently was just a prototype.
From the GTC presentation we may think it could be ready eventually after summer, but you can't trust this date more than a rumor.

Thanks from the response. So you mean to say that Octane will never have 'native' OpenCL support, but there's a workaround in process for AMD GPUs? If so, that's great news!

[calus]

So you mean to say that Octane will never have 'native' OpenCL support, but there's a workaround in process for AMD GPUs? If so, that's great news![/quote]
Yes

As you saw in the video, Octane really is working on AMD cards without us having to do an OpenCL port . But we are running into driver issues that we need to see fixed by the vendor before we release this to users. We also have to do a solid round of performance tuning, same we are about to do on Pascal GPUs.

[DylanSaunders]

.....Octane 3.0 is faster but consumes more RAM and images out inexplicably darker and less color tone.....

I'm not experiencing darker images at all. Yesterday I rendered images in version 2 and today rendered the same scene in version 3, and the images look the same. I mean exactly the same.

[Notiusweb]

Hello!
How is that 3.1 with the toon mode version coming along, is it still in the works?
-Thanks
Notiusweb