First off what a drag to the refractive team for having to do this in the first place. Who ever leaked the software and made it come to this should feel like S***.
Second although I purchased Octane I have not used it much if at all simply cause it is missing some feature that I use every day and cant live without so I hope those come online asap. (Rendering with HDRI and Sun Like Maxwell, Multilight, Emitter, A great default material library, starting a online material library). I am sure these are in the works and think we should focus on this rather than internet connections.
Having said that I usually keep my work station off line. But have recently been using Felix for Final Production is very cost effective and best part about it does not put the wear and tear of rendering on my machine. (Not sure about the rest of you but my video card hums when I use octane on a real file not a car but a large architecture project with a lot of modeling and large poly numbers ).
I think if all plays out correctly and 2.3 has a system some what similar to Felix that would be just amazing and really could just blow people away.
I think the Refractive team are going to have to offer something great although they have a great GPU engine there are others out there ,not as good in some cases but just this last week Maxwell announced their interactive software and with maxwell already dialed in on other areas this could be an issue so GPU is just not enough. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHyrROqAiZMFELIX is an online rendering software developed and specifically designed for architects, designers and engineers.
FELIX can import and handle 3D models from the majority of modeling programs, such as 3DMAX, Rhino, Blender, Silo, Sketchup FormZ, Autocad, etc. You don’t have to pay for a license in order to use FELIX, you only pay for what you use. The technology used in FELIX dramatically reduces start-up costs, computational times and learning curve steepness.
FELIX is based on what is known as “Cloud Computing Architecture”. This means that FELIX is connected online to a big data center, where it:
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computes renderings using Maxwell Render from Next Limit stores the renderings, 3D models, materials and settings in a safe location gives the user access to a huge shared materials library
FELIX uses a non-destructive workflow that guarantees data integrity over time. Felix’s output format stores within it all the information regarding geometry, materials, lights etc. This information is stored in a way that can be recovered and restored at any time and provide a complete backup for a scene.
I think if 2.3 allows for some access to some hardware or something, than this could be great other wise could be the demise. Just to lock up a license will not be enough. Although they have said it will bring great features it remains to be seen. I really hope it does Im interested in Octane and wish the developers the best, just hope these updates are really that great cause there is alot of great stuff out there already.Official announcement from Next Limit:
"The video shows our new interactive engine, that will be officially announced in a few days. Stay tuned, soon we will give you more info. For now I just can say is that it will be free for all Maxwell v2 users
Juan
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