Check out Linos amazing work on Artstation. 20/month no commitment make this a great render engine to try out and get into. very large user base, and growing rapidly, so lots of tutorials. This poll will be open til the end of April and might be extended longer, if need arises. Get a detailed introduction to OctaneRender for Blender from expert 3D generalist Lino Grandi with this tutorial. Octane The first GPU render, with super fast growing popularity. Since the key lies in the issue of public demand, this poll will be open for everyone reading this post, not just the registered members. Octane renderer is also visible along with Eevee and Cycles. So would you be willing to pay for an official OctaneRender plugin for Blender? Here's the 's first official poll for professionals and alike. It's quite difficult due to the GPL restrictions on linking the octane engine into blender, and we wonder if the demand is big enough, due to 'cycles', which is now integrated into blender."Īlthough Terrence could be right about the popularity of Cycles, some long-time users of OctaneRender have noticed a significant difference in render quality between Octane and Cycles as illustrated below. I mainly used direct lighting diffuse and a bit of pathtracing, render. What about a plugin for Blender? Terrence Vergauwen ("Radiance") the lead developer of OctaneRender noted in his post: "Regarding blender, we are still evaluating options for a blender plugin product. I also avoid the usual mix of hdr and sun renders to get the result in one single pass.
OTOY, a cloud rendering and gaming company, is reportedly releasing OctaneRender plugins for 3DS Max, Maya, Softimage and DAZ 3D Studio soon. Refractive Software-the developer of OctaneRender-was bought out by OTOY Inc.