“RC1 just went live yesterday in closed beta. If testing goes well (so far it is) through the weekend, we should be able to announce a date for our first official public preview next week. Thank you all for your patience!”
They've been in a closed beta since April 20th, which those of us whom have been in it are signed to EXTREMELY HEAVY NDA's which is why everyone's been so tightlipped about it…and as much as I love Redshift…looks like Octane X will be getting the first big wave.
As for software solutions, this was said 8 days ago directly to us:
“all macOS CUDA plug-ins now have Octane X DCC plug-ins ready, and are being tested right now by the closed beta group: C4D, Maya, Houdini, Lightwave, Blender, Sketchup, Poser, Modo and Nuke.”
They've been very open “as open as they can” while keeping their mouths mostly shut over the past few months of beta but the bottom line, and I quote:
“We are very proud to roll out our first release of Octane X for AMD/Intel GPUS to a select group of beta testers.
Octane X on Metal is 100% now feature complete. We reached full pixel parity with Octane 2020 CUDA about two months ago, and have spent the time since then working on getting more and more speed on AMD GPUs (Mac Pro users with Vega II Pro Duo - you might have the highest OB score of any single slot card). We have also added preliminary XDR display support in standalone.”
This cannot be any more clear. ANYONE in the chat who has been saying for the past few months that this would NEVER happen…it will, it did, and it's not years away. It actually might just be next week
