Octane GPU Renderer on sale 50% off

robioto

Until the 4th of June. Cool renderer for generating beauty renders of models. Good, fast, and cheap! It breaks the rules!

http://www.refractivesoftware.com/index.php


49 euros which is about $62.05 usd when I converted it last.

moof

Anyone used this?

Cyrael

I'm actually seriously interested in this and have been for awhile.. has anyone used it or tried it in depth enough to give an overview of whether it's worth the purchase or not?

How does it compare with mental ray - which is the main renderer I use currently..

edit*sorry moof - didn't refresh the page before i posted :poly136:

moof

it's cool cyrael.

About Octane: I notice you need a pretty up to date video card. I just watched the sales pitch video, it looks pretty cool.

I'm curious what kind of system requirements they'd like though beyond just a cuda enabled card. I guess anything is better than my current render setup, lol :P

Joshua Stubbles

It would be interesting to see it adapted for game use. Such as creating your lighting setup and rendering out lightmaps. We use 3dmsax for our lightmap rendering but of course, it's kind of slow. nifty tech either way.

Ben Apuna

Octane sure does show some serious promise, and at $62.05 that's a hard deal to beat.

I had read that Octane was having problems importing vertex normals, so smooth groups, hard/soft edges might not work quite right without actually splitting a mesh up. Though that issue might have already been fixed.

oXYnary

Can someone pipe in its rendering ability with ATI cards? Is it cuda only?

Does the plug in for max allow baking textures as well? IE baking my normal and AO's.