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Tesla_s_fan: Member; 129 posts; Joined: Jan. 2013; Offline

March 12, 2015 11:17 p.m.

Newbility!


juanjgon: Member; 83 posts; Joined: Jan. 2007; Offline

March 13, 2015 9:09 a.m.

Testing the support of the Houdini primitives, nurbs o bezier surfaces rendered as tessellated meshes in Octane.

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juanjgon: Member; 83 posts; Joined: Jan. 2007; Offline

March 17, 2015 6:13 p.m.

The new features of Octane 3, that will be available in the Houdini plugin along this year, after the initial release this summer

http://home.otoy.com/otoy-unveils-octanerender-3-worlds-best-gpu-renderer/ [home.otoy.com]

-Juanjo

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mandrake0: Member; 636 posts; Joined: June 2006; Offline

March 18, 2015 6:15 a.m.

juanjgon
The new features of Octane 3, that will be available in the Houdini plugin along this year, after the initial release this summer

http://home.otoy.com/otoy-unveils-octanerender-3-worlds-best-gpu-renderer/ [home.otoy.com]

-Juanjo

sorry, but the release date is too much of marketing.
summer for a alpha version and in the second half of the year the release? that could be december that's fully 9 months away.

but at least they ad the required features so nice to see. :-)


Constantin X: Member; 136 posts; Joined: Jan. 2014; Offline

March 18, 2015 6:35 a.m.

juanjgon
The new features of Octane 3, that will be available in the Houdini plugin along this year, after the initial release this summer

http://home.otoy.com/otoy-unveils-octanerender-3-worlds-best-gpu-renderer/ [home.otoy.com]

-Juanjo

This is a HUGE release with support for VDB and volumetrics, and also OpenCL(no longer limited to Nvidia). Maybe now i can transit from Quadro to Firepro(w7100 has 8GB of VRAM). Thank you for your great work, i can't wait to play with the beta….


Gyroscope: Member; 75 posts; Joined: Feb. 2011; Offline

March 18, 2015 1:17 p.m.

Curious to see how the OpenCL implementation stacks up to CUDA. If LuxMark is any indication it could be a huge boon. But from what I've read previously with other renderers with dual support is that it won't compare. Any initial hints with regards to Octane?


juanjgon: Member; 83 posts; Joined: Jan. 2007; Offline

April 21, 2015 1:03 p.m.

Full support of the Houdini instance node. The instances are rendered using the powerful Octane instancing feature.

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paul: Member; 832 posts; Joined: July 2005; Offline

April 21, 2015 1:05 p.m.

Nice!

Is there a way to pass different shader parameters to each instance. ie, allows each tree to have a different colour?


juanjgon: Member; 83 posts; Joined: Jan. 2007; Offline

April 21, 2015 1:14 p.m.

paul
Nice!

Is there a way to pass different shader parameters to each instance. ie, allows each tree to have a different colour?

In Octane you have a shading node to get a random number for each instance, so for example it is easy to build a shader to get a random colors in the trees.

-Juanjo

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paul: Member; 832 posts; Joined: July 2005; Offline

April 22, 2015 7:12 a.m.

Instance random number useful.

Are we able to recover geometry attributes from within the Octane shaders? We're always using geo attributes to drive shaders..


juanjgon: Member; 83 posts; Joined: Jan. 2007; Offline

April 22, 2015 7:29 a.m.

Not currently. The GPU shaders and nodes can't evaluate CPU attributes from the host application at render time to avoid performance problems. Anyway this can change in Octane 3 with the support of OSL to build our custom shaders and nodes

-Juanjo

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paul: Member; 832 posts; Joined: July 2005; Offline

April 22, 2015 9:16 a.m.

Thx, I was hoping you'd say that

Btw, what's the plan for linux support. I imagine most people here are v linux dependant..


juanjgon: Member; 83 posts; Joined: Jan. 2007; Offline

April 22, 2015 10:24 a.m.

I want to support Linux ASAP

BTW … usually what Linux Houdini version is used in the studios (gcc 4.4, 4.6 or 4.8 )?

-Juanjo

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paul: Member; 832 posts; Joined: July 2005; Offline

April 22, 2015 10:32 a.m.

We're all moving (have moved) to gcc 4.8.

Think that'll be a v safe bet for you.


eetu: Member; 606 posts; Joined: May 2007; Offline

April 22, 2015 11:05 a.m.

Check out the VFX Reference Platform; http://www.vfxplatform.com/ [vfxplatform.com]


juanjgon: Member; 83 posts; Joined: Jan. 2007; Offline

April 22, 2015 11:09 a.m.

Thanks !!!

-Juanjo

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juanjgon: Member; 83 posts; Joined: Jan. 2007; Offline

April 23, 2015 1:15 p.m.

Rendering particles with Octane

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Tesla_s_fan: Member; 129 posts; Joined: Jan. 2013; Offline

April 23, 2015 9:58 p.m.

wow!


juanjgon: Member; 83 posts; Joined: Jan. 2007; Offline

May 3, 2015 4:44 a.m.

While waiting for the native OpenVDB volume rendering of Octane 3, even now we can render volumetrics with Octane 2.2 and the amazing Houdini volume conversion tools

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ripclaw: Member; 96 posts; Joined: May 2008; Offline

May 12, 2015 10:10 a.m.

Looks amazing, I'm already using Octane in C4D all the time, and this will be such a win also from a pipeline perspective! Just prepare everything in Houdini and spit out an ORBX in the end and there we go

Do we have any update regarding the Houdini Indie situation? Because right now that's all I have access too…

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