Kendall, what resolution were your renders? I like to do 3000-5000pixelsĮDIT: 3Delight license prices are crazy. Stones, Plastics, glass and metals are really all secondary if not tertiary in my priorities.Ĭan't wait to get home and try the demo though. That is a major sticking point for me since I primarily do pinups. Thing with reality is that I have been able to create some nice looking skin. I don't have an issue with my 3delight render speed most of the time, but lux on the other hand is troublesome.8-40 hours using two machines is getting tiresome. I haven't seen any good skin renders in the octane gallery so I don't think this is my cup of tea anyway, there are plenty of nice renders but not skin I could love. I'll try the demo on my older machine, it has a slower CPU but a cuda compatible video card. Looks like it''s time to upgrade my graphics card for more memory/cuda cores. The standalone license for Octane is just over $100 so i hope the plugin is reasonably priced. My main concerns are the cost and the node system which I never cared for. I am a luxrender/Reality user and have used Octane in the past with 3DSMax. $ time renderdl -q -progress mavka_l4w.ribģDelight doesn't necessarily NEED to take a long time to render. Octane is excellent, however I want to comment on the 3Delight thing: The render here and here are done in 3delight, with UberEnvironment2, UberSpot used for the streetlights in the dusk scene), full-raytracing on 20 lights, SSS on the Worm, and ALL of the Urban Sprawl loaded and the 3Delight Linux Standalone 64 bit 10.0.50 ( renderdl -q -progress ) took just over 3 minutes on a Quad-core AMD-Phenom 2.5Ghz.ĮDIT: I did not turn off raytracing for the hair. Sometimes i export sketchup or blender direct into octane then export the character into octane.

i'm not one for giving out technical advice, but if you are willing to invest in the learning curve it is the single best thing one can do to improve your renders. need more speed, get another graphic card (nvidia).Īt first my only issue was animation, that was resolved a few months ago.

It's a gpu renderer, so if you have a fast graphic card render times for my projects are all under 30 min, i see posts about 2 hour renders with daz or lux and I laugh because it would be 15 min in octane. i may even opt to stay with the standalone version of octane even after the plugin is released. the plugin will make it easier but it's easy right now once you learn octane. I have been using octane for 8 months and it is just wonderful.

Octane render for daz studio