Ok very simple post to just simply show your how unbelievably good Octane Render is.
Octane render is a GPU based rendering engine that takes advantage of CUDA cores in Nvidia cards.
The upside to GPU rendering is the fact that in general you will see 10-50x speed increases over an Intel core i7 920 (example).
You can download the demo but sadly the demo allows only for Geforce 200s cards and up to work, as a rule of thumb you dont want to use anything lower than an Nvidia Geforce gtx260 though.
If you purchase the full version ($99) then all Nvidia cards will work and you will not be limited to the newer cards.
Here is a default render of a tank with a few lighting tweaks.
Now as a standalone render this isnt jaw dropping but it still does a fairly good job of making it look pretty good (especially the lighting). There is just one fact though that will make your jaw drop because this render took a mere 23 seconds to render, Im not joking.
For this test I used an ASUS Geforce GTX460 1GB card which has 340 CUDA Cores but because cuda cores are used for gui processing aswell Octane Render only uses a certain amount so that the card has a few spare cores to carry on doing normal tasks. In this case Octane uses 224 of my cores for rending out of the 340.
After around 9 minutes your card will be processing roughly 8000 samples per pixel and at around 15-20 minutes you should have a fully rendered image (depends on complexity of the scene).
I simply cannot stress how amazing Octane is and as long as you have an Nvidia card then you should have no need to look any further because Octane is for you. Blazing speeds, amazing image quality and the ability to move the render around in realtime are just a few of the bonuses.
Having real-time noiseless unbiased renders today (as in 30 or even 10 FPS), is still about impossible with today’s hardware for any scenes with meaningful complexity.
We’d probably need to wait for another GPU generation or two before we can see something real close to that, providing that problem with Fermi mentioned in the News & Chat part of the forum is resolved.
Octane render is great, but it has a problem when it comes to animation, time of export/import reloading images, voxelizing is a stupid wasted time and money.
Octane Power Tools fixes this www.octanepowertools.com it animate the camera and light without export import every frame, beside some other handy features for production like camera rendering batch and cameras and lights combination.
Check it out.
Octane render is great, but it has a problem when it comes to animation, time of export/import reloading images, voxelizing is a stupid wasted time and money.
Octane Power Tools fixes this www.octanepowertools.com it animate the camera and light without export import every frame, beside some other handy features for production like camera rendering batch and cameras and lights combination.
Check it out.
