Octane render review @ Evermotion

[palibebeh]

(hope this is the right forum section...)

http://www.evermotion.org/tutorials/...-render-review

looks pretty cool, although rendertimes are far from realtime

also - since it's a standalone renderer, it supports lots of 3d software via plugins.
it seems that octane is heavily supported/promoted by nvidia, so no OpenCL support as 'OpenCL is currently not as mature as CUDA.' (quote from the official octane FAQ).

I'm still waiting for V-Ray RT GPU to toy with, I'm pretty sure it will blow Octane out of the water. But until then it's nice to know there are other toys. It's very good for the market, and mostly to us users

Any of you guys tried Octane yet? How does it compare to V-Ray RT GPU? (obviously this question is for Vlado and all you lucky beta testers out there)

[vlado]

You will have a chance to play with V-Ray RT for GPU soon enough (provided that you already have V-Ray RT); as for Octane I can't really tell much as I have not used it. Things develop quite quickly in this area so any feedback you might get today will probably be outdated tomorrow.

Best regards,
Vlado

[scottsch]

Odd that nVidia would promote Octane, which is based on the free/open source Lux Render, seeing as nvidia owns mental images who is trying to release iray this year.

In any event we are very looking forward to RT on the GPU. I can't wait to see it - it's been a year already and it's hard to believe time goes so fast. I wish there was a solution to the vidcard memory limits other than buying a $3k card. Mental ray can bucket render a scene of path traced shaders, but it is extremely slow. It looks really good though. I imagine m.i. will try to implement buckets with GPU at some stage. It would be awesome if RT did this.