Makes sense to switch back to Octane Blender

[davorin]

Evening (o;

Been a while I used Octane for Blender..also while my subscription ran out (o;

Currently I am very happy with E_Cycles which is already based up to latest 2.83 alpha release....
With Octane Blender it is very confusing from the number which Blender version it is based on....anyway (o;

How has the rendering improved in the past builds compared to Blenders original OptiX and E_Cycles OptiX implementation?

The only advantage I see currently with Octane Blender is that it supports NVLink/SLI....


thanks in advance
richard

[grimm]

I guess it depends on what you need to render? Some of the advantages are that Octane supports OSL on the GPU, you can import VDB files directly, a better sky model, AI lights, and Vectron/Spectron to name a few.

Jason

[davorin]

Evenin (o;

Are there any sample files which showcase this?

Think my free blender subscription is still active (o;

[linograndiotoy]

Evening (o;

Been a while I used Octane for Blender..also while my subscription ran out (o;

Currently I am very happy with E_Cycles which is already based up to latest 2.83 alpha release....
With Octane Blender it is very confusing from the number which Blender version it is based on....anyway (o;

How has the rendering improved in the past builds compared to Blenders original OptiX and E_Cycles OptiX implementation?

The only advantage I see currently with Octane Blender is that it supports NVLink/SLI....


thanks in advance
richard

Current Octane for Blender is based on 2020 XB3 and Blender 2.81a (the latest "official").

viewtopic.php?f=113&t=73850

Octane is way faster than E-Cycles, the AI Denoiser is doing an amazing job, there's NVLink and RTX support and a lot of optimizations you can only find in the OTOY Blender custom build.
Especially with this new release, I feel we reached an extremely exciting productivity level.

[davorin]

Good day (o;

Has anyone done any speed comparison between Octane and E_Cycles?

Though all the nice plug-ins I have would render useless then..especially for lighting and skies simulation....
Maybe some can be rewritten as I've done one time in the past....

I know, hardcore blender user do their own shaders/python scripts


Regarding NVlink/SLI...heard only that on Linux this is rather difficult to setup, or that it works at all....


The price has gone up I see....last year the Studio subscription was US$ 179, now it is EUR 199.20, around US$ 200.
Maybe I just try it out for one or two months...

[Obizzz]

The price has gone up I see....last year the Studio subscription was US$ 179, now it is EUR 199.20, around US$ 200.
Maybe I just try it out for one or two months...

It's 16.60 €/month if you pay yearly and 19.99 €/month for monthly.

[davorin]

Exactly

12 * EUR 16.60 equals to around US$ 220, so a little more than the last year (o;


BTW: Can I see in Octane Bench 4.00c if NVLink is working under Linux?

[Obizzz]

Exactly

12 * EUR 16.60 equals to around US$ 220, so a little more than the last year (o;


BTW: Can I see in Octane Bench 4.00c if NVLink is working under Linux?

Haha, I had a brain fart and counted 10 months a year

[davorin]

I guess it depends on what you need to render? Some of the advantages are that Octane supports OSL on the GPU, you can import VDB files directly, a better sky model, AI lights, and Vectron/Spectron to name a few.

Jason

Hmm...are there any example .blend files which reflect those advantages?


thanks in advance
richard

[grimm]

Unfortunately I don't have the time to collect or construct example files. There are many peppered in the Blender forum here and on Blender Artists, like this one about importing OpenVDB files...

https://blenderartists.org/t/octanerend ... 67?u=grimm

I was wrong about Spectron, it's not supported yet in the plugin.

Jason