Octane Render runs as a standalone program, but over the last few months the Octane community has been rolling out integrated plugins for a growing list of 3D programs including Maya, 3DS MAX, Lightwave, Blender, and Cinema4D. Currently, Octane Render requires a CUDA enabled Nvidia video card to be installed. Octane Render supports all major platforms and runs with Window XP, Vista, 7, 8 (32 or 64 bit), Linux 64 bit and MacOS X. The company claims speed increases of 10x to 15x over traditional CPU based unbiased engines. Octane Render offers GPU-based unbiased renders in realtime on your graphics card. The update looks promising already, but a title at the end says there is still much to do, “texture baking” “animation” and “live DB”. As a pièce de résistance HowieFarkes’ NOBLE PINES full environment scene is opened in Carrara and rendered by Octane, although limits of the automated material conversion become apparent. A small Terrain with several instances of trees demonstrates Octane’s depth-of-field. Trees from Carrara’s Plant Modeler are replicated.

Remarkably, Carrara’s native shader appeared to pass the imagemap textures to Octane as well. A menu item will batch convert shaders, but it is not obvious from the video whether converting improved render speed or quality. One of the shaders is converted to the plugin’s Octane Materials Shader tree, which helpfully preserves the original shader in a sub-tree until Octane’s shaders are activated. The video demonstrates some JAW DROPPING NEAR-REALTIME updates between Carrara’s Assembly Room and Octane’s GPU-powered unbiased renderer.ĭAZ 3D’s Millennium Dragon 2 model is loaded in Carrara and posed. Plugin author Simon Guard posted a second video showing his progress with the Octane Render plugin for Carrara.

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