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http://home.otoy.com/otoy-unveils-octan ... -renderer/

Highlights include:
- OpenCL support (what?!)
- Volumetrics
- Micro displacement
- Unlimited poly-count and size
- Texture baking
- FBX & Ptex support
- Per-object reflection control
..and more.

Exciting!

INTENSE

Looking forward to texture baking.. Hopefully connection with Substance Painter will be an option,
Or is that totally unthinkable?

riggles wrote:http://home.otoy.com/otoy-unveils-octan ... -renderer/

- OpenCL support (what?!)

To my understanding, it is a cpu-gpu language.. ..so, it makes the GPU memory requirements moot?
I may be completely wrong.

But all in all. OR3 is outstanding.
http://home.otoy.com/otoy-unveils-octan ... -renderer/

Hard to wrap my head around all the possibilities that can be done, soon.

Makes me think only one thing:

OR4 will be an actual stargate?

So now with Open CL I hope some comparision between Nvidia and AMD cards, would be nice to know which card go faster.

JavierVerdugo wrote:So now with Open CL I hope some comparision between Nvidia and AMD cards, would be nice to know which card go faster.

And for us Mac users, we could actually use recent Macs, like the dual AMD GPU Mac Pro.

It is my understanding that you already have NDAs on file for a bunch of wonderful blokes who helped make 2.0 such a stable and phenomenal success. Maybe keep things simple - just let those same dudes do the 3.0 testing. ASAFP!

I put in a diaper....

Can one view some of these 3.0 features from the Nvida Conference Video yet?

PTEX!!!!! YES!!!! No more wasted UV space (or time wasted UVing). OpenVDB is gonna be awesome, don't have to use mantra anymore. Really interested to see what that texture baking can do in concert with nuke.

Im very happy.