What about the promised Daz plugin for Mac?

[moenen]

Dear Otoy,

I'm a mac user and I purchased 9 months ago the Octane render plugin for DAZ Studio. I purchased it by mistake, because in your web site there was no listing of what OS and DAZ versions the plugins works with. I have noticed you are developing a lot of plugins and I would like to know if the promised Mac version is in the works or not.

Thanks,

Fabio E. N. Frau



P.S: I wrote to OctaneRender™Support on october 22th 2013 and I haven't received no answer yet.

[t_3]

sorry that you haven't got an answer from otoy yet;

about the info in the shop: i can't remember if os versions were listed back then, at least they are now - so again sorry if it wasn't the case when you bought the plugin!

and to say it clear: a mac version is still several months off, and afair i haven't promised one ever since, or that it will appear anytime soon - sorry the 3rd.

if you don't want to wait any longer, and/or have no use for octane without the plugin, please write me a pm, i'll try to arrange something with otoy...

[moenen]

Hi t_3,

it's not an easy choice for me. My problem is the following: I'm working on a animation project and I'm using Daz Studio + the Reality render plugin. Reality is based on lux render: the quality is good but the speed is not the max.
Apart my mac pro, I could use a Lenovo notebook. It's a 32 bit notebook and the video card is :

NVIDIA QUADRO FX 570

Here you can see the technical info about this card:

http://www.tomshw.it/cont/articolo/sche ... qOFEaW4HSc

I think it's Cuda compatible:

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus

but I don't know if this card is quite enough powerful for Octane Render. What do you think about it?
I could install Daz Studio win 32 bit, Octane render standalone, octane daz plugin and try to render my animations, but I would like to know if it's acceptable or not as a temporary expedient.

The alternative is to wait 1 year or more for the Mac plugin.

[t_3]

NVIDIA QUADRO FX 570

well, afaik it is no longer supported since octane 1.0, and even if it still was it is so low on power and vram, that it won't be of much use

i'm going to check something else that just came into my mind - don't expect too much though; i'll keep you posted...

[moenen]

Thank you very much t-3, I will wait for news. Please tell your colleagues that at least one faithful customer is waiting for a Mac release.

[cbmotion]

Hi you 2 - i am an mac user aswell and working with ahmets c4d pluin in mac - and wow i love it
and yes i want the daz plugin for mac osx aswell - and want it better tomorrow than in the next year.
and i think there are a lot of mac users out there but the didint post it -
@t-3 - didin't you want a count of daz users from daz driectly - did you get it?

so i press my thumbs (that will we say in german) to get it as soon as possible
because i was so impressed of all the videos from your daz win plugin.

carsten

[moenen]

Hi Carsten, I agree with you: I'm quite sure there are a lot of mac users out there, waiting for this DAZ plugin.

[Tugpsx]

Although this is an exporter and older than dust, testers reported it working on Mac and other platforms. Can you confirm that it is still compatible and maybe an update is in order. I do know that it still works on the PC with DS 4.6.

http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=11712

[t_3]

http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 77#p164777

[moenen]

http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=36713&p=164777#p164777

Hi T_3,

my English is not so good and maybe I have misunderstood but… are you really working on a mac version of the DAZ plugin?! It would be fantastic!