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Hello all!

This is my first OCTANE render... vs my V-Ray renders. Scene converted directly from V-Ray Max to Octane Max plugin. After playing with camera settings this came out pretty impressive. All it is DL+Diffuse following PAQUITO's Complex Interior tutorial.

Rendered on single GTX 780 OC ACX. Buying a second one tomorrow because I like the result and want to play around with Octane.

All input is welcome, specially on post processing, I know how to renders for many years and have been working in the industry for many years but I'm a complete post-processing noob! I barely do any Levels/Color Correction/Bloom in PS, but compositing Render Elements is beyond me, it's some strange black art for me so I try to get the best results possible in the initial rendering.

PS - Rendertime was 1h 26m with 12,000 samples on single GTX780, I think it could use less samples same result, don't know yet, I'm still an Octane noob...






Images with times and render engine above. Again all comments/crits welcome, specially on Octane optimization and tips for interior scenes etc. I made the glass a Glossy material I know i could have used a portal instead, but not really sure of the difference?

Any comments/tips/links to post-processing tutorials would be welcome here! Also how to improve color balance in Octane? I guess I just have to play around with it to produce ever-more-realistic interiors? So far V-Ray offers me a lot more control and speed, but I'm thrilled by Octane, want to learn to use it to produce stunning results (I know it can do it)

Also, where can somebody download/purchase GOOD interior sample Max scenes? Those would really help! Is there any resource like Evermotion scenes for Octane? Thanks!

Use white balance to get rid of the green tint.

Hi there,

The signle gtx 780 is less because octane render using cuda cores,so much cuda core gets fast render

if you use 3 or 4 gtx 780 ti or titan black the render time like a rocket

i am using two gtx 780 in my house and my renders max 8 minutes

at the office using 3 titan black the render times awsome

you have two upgrade ti or titan black

may be you can buy two gtx 780.

Hey guys,

in my opinion octane is a great renderer, which is capable to beat vray in certain situations.
but i am pretty sure octane is not the alrounder like vray is. for interior visualisation octane cant
beat vray regarding to rendertime - vray is adaptive, octane not. this maybe not a big deal in product-visualisation
but in very complex scenes like interior it saves tons of rendertime. even four titan black would not render that scene in 10 minutes.
octane is very impressive if you use pathtracing and pathtracing monte-carlo but both pathtracing is way to slow by now for complex interior at e.g. 5000x3500 pixels.

wont be missunderstood: i love octane for the capability of tweaking the render in realtime and working very close to the output. but octane is no alrounder and could never replace vray yet. by now i even think its a bit missleading to show such great interior renderings in the image-galery cause such render take so much time that it is not usable for architectural visualisations yet.

vfxman83 wrote:Hi there,

The signle gtx 780 is less because octane render using cuda cores,so much cuda core gets fast render

if you use 3 or 4 gtx 780 ti or titan black the render time like a rocket

- also do not forget - Nvidia is f.ing up things with cuda cores, the 1024 cudas from 590 gtx is almost the same as 2880 or something from 780ti,
- nvidia shame on you, only limit is the 1.5gb on the 590s

- I am going to get me more 590s - three so far, I can fit 7 via PCIe risers - I never used more than 1gb for my scenes - which is what you should optimize to anyway, huge unoptimized scenes = huge files and slower render time
- and yeah, interiors are usually crazy slow