Balcony

[Diogo Moita]

Hello,
This is my first comercial render using Octane. The original size is 1600x1000, it took about 9h on my GTX 260 and reached 20500 samples. I´ve used 3D Studio 2009 for the modeling, Photoshop and Noise Ninja. Most of the fire flies I took off manually. I spent some time to figure that we have to habilitated "bmp" on the Map-Export of the OBJ Export Options, otherwise the texture coordenates goes wrong.
What I missed the most was reflections without blurry with few intensity on opaque objects. The real time visualization using Direct Light is something wonderful! Comments are very welcome.
Thanks,
Diogo Moita

[radiance]

whoaa

amazing work
definately gallery material.

Radiance

[[gk]]

Looks fine.
but 9 hours

[Daniel79]

9H?????
Like maxwell...

[Phr0stByte]

reached 20500 samples

Obvious reason for the 9 hours. Maybe a little overkill?

[radiance]

Hey, 20000+ pixelsamples is a lot
I really need to add the usual features for efficient interior rendering,
mlt, portals, architectural glass etc...

hopefully beta2 is out of the door as soon as possible and then i can start on those.

Radiance

[[gk]]

reached 20500 samples

Obvious reason for the 9 hours. Maybe a little overkill?

ID like to see the original image, he used Noise ninja - I have to take a guess that the reason was - noise -so the samples wasnt enough.

I was just wondering, because that quality there from a 260 can be done right out of the Frame buffer in offline renders on non-dualquad systems, in considerable less time.
Looking forward to check the stuff radiance mentions.

[radiance]

reached 20500 samples

Obvious reason for the 9 hours. Maybe a little overkill?

ID like to see the original image, he used Noise ninja - I have to take a guess that the reason was - noise -so the samples wasnt enough.

I was just wondering, because that quality there from a 260 can be done right out of the Frame buffer in offline renders on non-dualquad systems, in considerable less time.
Looking forward to check the stuff radiance mentions.

The issue here is that the room is lit by a caustic. (eg light refracted through double sided glass)
It's very difficult to find the light outside and you have probably less than 1 ray of 10 rays that actually contributes a sample / finds light.

There are many things you can use to make it better but they require some time to develop and are built ontop of a 'foundation' that's nearly finished in octane.

Radiance

[Diogo Moita]

I was desapointed with the 9h too but I think radiance is wright, the double sided glass is blocking the rays... I´ll try to render the scene without these glasses and see what happens. Here is the original image without any post production (outside octane, of course).

[[gk]]

cheers