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Greetings everyone,

I am very passionate about rendering software and I recently purchased OctaneRender® after reading an article on vfxguide.com -- I have to say I am very impressed! Typically I work with RenderMan®, V-Ray or modo® and I'm super excited about the ease of use and instant feedback this software provides. The node set-up is very similar to SLIM in RenderMan® so I was able to jump right in. I dare-say this kind of performance increase is on the same level as the SSD, or when ZBrush pushed sculpting into the industry.

I am working on an interiour as sample work for a soon to be local start-up here in Thousand Oaks at the moment (using my apartment layout as reference). C&C welcome. I will most certainly have questions I hope this community can answer as I'm still very new to OctaneRender® I plan on doing several renders of different rooms. I believe I have some n-gons on my light switches and door frames. The normals are facing the correct direction in modo® -- I am using the Direct Lighting Kernel (Diffuse (4)) @ 3,000 s/px. At 1280x947 I am at 34 minutes with my 660Ti. When I first started this project (before I read about Octane) I was using the modo® default renderer, my render times in modo® were at three and a half hours or so at this resolution on my i7 3770K @ 4.6GHz -- the shaders were optimised for a visual balance and render times too! I giggled when I performed the same render in Octane! ... Giggled ... Image down-res'd a bit for the forum.

Tools:
modo®, OctaneRender®, Photoshop®

Next update:
Wall outlets, door locks/bolts/springs (front door), Central Air wall vent, Recessed lighting, Mirrored closet doors, Windowsills/Windows/Curtains, possible Kitchen cabinets/appliances if time permits this week.

Thanks for looking:

nice start, Mikelmnj =)

one idea for framing: use tilt shift in order to have paralel vertical lines - that architects and designers rarelly like converging..

glimpse wrote:nice start, Mikelmnj =)

one idea for framing: use tilt shift in order to have paralel vertical lines - that architects and designers rarelly like converging..

Hi Glimpse,

Thank you for that tip, how is this accomplished in Octane?

Mikel

You should change from DL to PMC kernel for almost photorealistic because your GTX 660 Ti is good and supported by PMC. Your CPU uses OR!? loool But GPU only.

Hi Nuno,

I will be sure to switch the Kernel to PMC for the final render, just using DL on the WIP renders for now.
The CPU bit was in regards to the original modo render times, before I switched over to Octane.

Mikel

mikelmnj wrote:

glimpse wrote:nice start, Mikelmnj =)

one idea for framing: use tilt shift in order to have paralel vertical lines - that architects and designers rarelly like converging..

Hi Glimpse,

Thank you for that tip, how is this accomplished in Octane?

Mikel

I too want to know that. How do you fix the verticals in Octane?

there should be a "lens shift" or smth simmilar in cam parameters - take a look around.
could not say exactly, 'cos my system is disasembled =) waiting for an upgrade..

better idea is actually simply place the camera, so it would be parralel with ground.
this will give most natural look =)

cheers

Here you can find the lensShift.
greetz,

have your camera target 'Y" same as your camera pos 'Y', and then adjust the lens shift towards the bottom of the camera rollout, to pull the horizon away from dead centre...

photographers also shift left and right as well, particularly if there's something curved in the image, so focus on that and then shift left or right, if that makes sense

so that curved things (chandeliers etc) don't go too elliptical and wonky...

Cool tip, thanks so much.