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First of all, sorry for my english, i'm not a native speaker
Octane is great, except some demo limitations. I mean no open\save, no refractions, and else.
I have some questions about future releases and features.
Whats about benchmarks and comparisons between cpu-unbiased render engines and gpu-based? Is this a true, that if in Maxwell or Fry or Indigo my scene renders about 20-24 hours, in Octane this scene will render x32 (or more) times faster? Is there a linear dependence, or CUDA technology may be as fast as CPU in some cases?
I've tested some interior scenes, and i have to say, that Octane is great. If in future, there will be multilight (you know, like in Maxwell or Fry), it would be wonderful. I think, you really must include this feature, it's very useful, and saves a lot of time.
And don't forget about fake SSS for thin objects (for curtains). All archviz needs it.

Great job! You are the best! I hope that in future, Octane will become very useful tool, and it's developer will have a lot of money (and that he will not raise the price:)

Hi,

thanks, i'm not sure if we will add multilight, since that's quite a hog on GPU memory.
the interactive nature of octane also kind of makes multilight less necessary as you can tune your lights while you're finetuning your scene...

Radiance

So, what about benchmark? It would be wonderful if we will have 1 or 2 scenes (studio and interior) to download and benchmark our gpus

you could do one with the scenes already provided ?
give us some time to set something up on the site, we've our hands full with a lot of stuff at the moment

Radiance

ok, i'll try, but when i import obj, all materials are glossy (3dsmax export), and i can't change them and save a scene in Octane

and camera has default pivot point and direction.

Birukas wrote:ok, i'll try, but when i import obj, all materials are glossy (3dsmax export), and i can't change them and save a scene in Octane

give us some time to come up with a benchmark scene, we'll add one in the next demo version.

Radiance

o, and don't forget about camera clipping. it's very important in interiors!

Hi,

yeah camera near and far clipping is already implemented but not hooked up to the UI yet...

Radiance

Long life and prosper! Great job! You rock CG world

radiance wrote:Hi,

yeah camera near and far clipping is already implemented but not hooked up to the UI yet...

Radiance

+1 for clipping planes in the camera.
Without, some arch.viz interior is impossible to render.