Advanced Member Grimm Posted March 17, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 (edited) This just announced at GTC2015, very nice. http://home.otoy.com/otoy-unveils-octanerender-3-worlds-best-gpu-renderer/ OctaneRender 3 boasts a wide range of new features that will make it one of the most mature production-ready renderers available: Volumetric rendering: OctaneRender 3 supports the ability to render particulate matter such as clouds, smoke, fog, and fire with varying densities and introduces a unique native primitive type for incredibly detailed micro-surface displacement volumes and surfaces required to render photorealistic natural and organic materials. Dreamworks’ OpenVDB is also supported for direct in-camera rendering of particle simulations. Open Shader Language (OpenSL) support: Through OpenSL, content creators have the ability to build their own materials, procedural textures, and shaders, taking advantage of what is quickly becoming an industry standard while maintaining the exceptional performance OctaneRender is known for. OpenCL support: OctaneRender 3 will support the broadest range of processors possible using OpenCL to run on Intel CPUs with support for out-of-core geometry, OpenCL FPGAs and ASICs, and AMD GPUs. Deep pixel rendering: OctaneRender 3 adds deep pixel rendering support, as well as live connecting of DCC and compositing apps through Octane plug-ins for Pixologic’s Zbrush and The Foundry’s NUKE. OctaneRender 3 will also ship with a built in plugin for Adobe Photoshop that will properly handle multi-layer EXR files and support live deep pixel layer composting within Photoshop. Artists can open, create, and save ORBX media files introduced in OctaneRender 3, including planar and volumetric light fields, directly within Adobe Photoshop. Advanced live texture baking: A feature that’s most beneficial for use in real-time game engines, OctaneRender 3 supports unbiased GPU texture baking (UV or volumetric) of global illumination, spherical harmonics and 8D light fields in Unreal Engine 4 and Unity plugins. Infinite mesh and polygon sizes: OctaneRender 3 removes all limits on the maximum allowed primitive and triangle count. FBX and PTEX support: OctaneRender 3 supports importing data from Autodesk’s FBX file format and Disney’s PTEX texture file format. Split render passes, advanced per object reflection controls: OctaneRender 3 allows artists to split render passes into raw lighting and albedo passes, and adds fine-grained reflection, shadow and illumination casting controls per object or layer. These elements can also be built into the export, whether it is a light field, VR scene, or a movie file. Fully configurable: OctaneRender 3 allows fully configurable UI, transform gizmos and dockable windows. New plugin APIs: While previous versions of OctaneRender have support LUA plugins through scripting nodes, OctaneRender 3 adds C plugins and portable LLVM-based API support in ORBX packages. This is going to be released this year in the fall. Edited March 17, 2015 by Grimm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Aleksey Posted March 18, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 wow texture baking seems awesome! not sure how they remove polygon size limit. but this really does sound great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Grimm Posted March 18, 2015 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 I'm assuming that it would be out of core geometry, but I'm not sure? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor digman Posted March 18, 2015 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 (edited) Yeah, with Nvidia continuing to cripple the cuda cores in their comsumer cards even the new expensive Titan X, I think it is time to start looking at OpenCL and the Radeon line of cards. I will keep abreast of Octane as version 3 will fully support OpenCL.. Edited March 18, 2015 by digman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Grimm Posted March 18, 2015 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 More competition is always good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member L'Ancien Regime Posted March 18, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 Pixar Renderman 19 is gonna be FREE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member bisenberger Posted March 19, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted March 19, 2015 Looks like plugin for Pixologic’s Zbrush is planned too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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