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Have been testing octane on a Dell Laptop with limited memory.
The last beta performed ver well and definately was an improvement over the first. With the release of beta 020.1 there will be more improvement.

While testing i found a few areas that im having trouble and would appreciate any help.

mirror surfaces,
chrome (actually mlody47 just solved that one)
ground planes
tires specular or glossy

for the rear view mirrors, just use a glossy material with the roughness slider all the way to the right,
and specular colour / float pure white, eg 1.0

for tires, a glossy material with black diffuse and very faint specular, like 0.05 or something, and roughness low, something like 50.
play with those and you should get there...

Radiance

Wow you are on the money, The mirror popped right in and reflection was visible. Dude, I know you wrote the program and all but im impressed that you even remember the material settings for these things.

Since laptop limited, will let bake for a few and post the results.
Thanks for your help.
This only baked for 543/16000 Big improvement with the material settings, now on to beta 2.1
Well new version works just fine. rendered for about the same time.

Cubix Visual & GPU will announce a product later this week which will attach to your laptop PC or MacBook Pro with an ExpressCard 34 adapter. It will support up to 2 x GeForce GTX 480 cards, 2 x Quadro FX 5800, 2 x Tesla C2050, or any combination in between.

Eric

Cubix Visual & GPU will announce a product later this week which will attach to your laptop PC or MacBook Pro with an ExpressCard 34 adapter. It will support up to 2 x GeForce GTX 480 cards, 2 x Quadro FX 5800, 2 x Tesla C2050, or any combination in between.

Eric

Thor.

EricNV wrote:Cubix Visual & GPU will announce a product later this week which will attach to your laptop PC or MacBook Pro with an ExpressCard 34 adapter. It will support up to 2 x GeForce GTX 480 cards, 2 x Quadro FX 5800, 2 x Tesla C2050, or any combination in between.

Eric

Interesting... hopefully it won't cost as a brand new i7 render machine

Here is a little experiment, with skin and sunlight.

Here are a few material settings thanks to Mlody47

Object, Material, Roughness, rgb, Specular

Mirror
glossy Max 1,1,1 1.0

Tire
glossy 50 0,0,0 0.05

Chrome
glossy Max 0,0,0 Max

Wet ground
glossy Max 1,1,1 0 and its just intersecting the camera in 30%

Still playing with skin textures. Now if I could only figure out the eye surface issue.