Midphase
July 20, 2020 13:06:18
OTOY finally did it. OSX users now have a GPU renderer option once again. I am cautiously optimistic that this is a good development moving forward, and hopefully OTOY will lead the way to others for more Metal development (looking at you upcoming GPU Karma).
Here's the official announcement:
https://home.otoy.com/octane-x-pr1/ [
home.otoy.com]
ziconic
July 23, 2020 19:38:02
It's nice to finally have a GPU renderer for newer macs. It's buggy but no doubt it's blazing fast on my Mac Pro.
Doesn't seem like there are too many Octane users on Houdini though. I guess most folks doing GPU rendering on Houdini are on RS?
Midphase
July 24, 2020 02:59:47
Originally Octane had a really poor integration with Houdini. I think it's improved considerably over the years, and ironically the person who does the Octane integration (Juanjo) is the same guy who does it for Redshift.
Nonetheless, Redshift got a stronger foothold with Houdini users earlier than Octane did and it still holds.