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I don't use Lightwave, so I can't elaborate. But I see it in the plugins forum.
people are using it.
The exporters are actually fairly simple. You will do most of the setup in the Octane stand alone, not in Lightwave. Once you have your model/scene done, you can go back and forth between Octane and Lightwave to get the look you want.

Congratulations to everyone involved on the release of the Octane 1.0!!!
It has been a pleasure to see the software becomes such a nice Digital Content Creation (DCC) tool.
Hope you continue paying attention to users suggestions and comments but now that you are on the market swimming with the big fishes perhaps you should take a closer look at the trends also. Python scripting and Alembic file format are alredy supported by major DCC manufacturers and would be highly desirable features.
Python is used in every aspect of production chain, products like South Paw Tactic that offers an open source digital asset management and workflow control can connect to the DCCs that supports the language. Alembic file format on the other hand thanks to its support by big studios like Sony Pictures Imageworks and Industrial Light & Magic is rapidly evolving to become a standard file format to move geometry from different applications. Exocortex for instance can move an animated mesh with changing topology, UVs, normals an so forth from Softimage to 3dsmax to Maya and finaly render it with Arnold render... might as well be Octane!
Best regards!

myislg wrote:Hello!Will the Octane Render using double-precision calculations of the graphics or single-precision calculations?

That was a big question of mine and Thanks to Radiance, enlightened me.

Octane is using single precision calculations so Teslas or Quadro`s are not worth buying to use with Octane.
Buy as many GeForce`s as you can, Octane goes single precision

I`m a big fan of Lightwave since version 4.0 ...

Currently there is a builtin plugin under development with very satisfactory and promising results. Developer stated there are things to do, details can be found here http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=24959

I used Lightwave exporter plugin (worked nicely under lw 7.5, but had problems with newer versions of lw). Everything worked fine but at least it is an exporter plugin, so every frame is exported 1by1 to Octane so you may have troubles using it if you have more than 500K polygons in an animation.

karanis wrote:

myislg wrote:Hello!Will the Octane Render using double-precision calculations of the graphics or single-precision calculations?

That was a big question of mine and Thanks to Radiance, enlightened me.

Octane is using single precision calculations so Teslas or Quadro`s are not worth buying to use with Octane.
Buy as many GeForce`s as you can, Octane goes single precision

Thank you for your reply, I would also like to ask, 580 and 680 of the contrast which is faster?

580

Refracty wrote:580

Thank you

Yes, 580 is faster about 10%, but 680:

- 680 may have 4GB of vram vs 3GB,
- is less power consuming (about 50W),
- is silencer,
- temps are lower about 5C on air,
- is cold under watercooling - max 35C during rendering, and overclocks very very well and then is as fast as 580
- is stable - never fails - I replaced 2x580 with 2x680 - RMA.

Of course you could overclock a 580 easily and it will still be faster compared to an overclocked 680.
If you watercool a 580 or 680 you shouldn't worry about temps at all.

But 1 GB more VRam can be an advantage. Another thing that wasn't mentioned is the texture count. The 680 will give you more space for the number of textures.
If you are on a budget and can find a 580 3GB I would go for it.
I would rather choose two 580 then one 680 to be honest.

Refracty wrote:I would rather choose two 580 then one 680 to be honest.

Definitely yes.