Octane critique

[Falam]

I'd like to hear from those who are using Octane Render, how it is, what weaknesses does it have, how would you compare to Vray ?

[Falam]

No one has any opinions, or rather was I not understood ?

[Nox]

Probably no one uses it :>

[MauricioPC]

I think you'll find more information about Octane on a 3ds Max forum. Max users seems so use it a lot.

[Mathaeus]

I'd like to hear from those who are using Octane Render, how it is, what weaknesses does it have, how would you compare to Vray ?

From what I heard, it seems to have even more exaggerated ratio, scene complexity against the speed. So, for simple scene you can expect maybe the fastest path tracer on planet. But the speed seems to go down exponentially ( even more than usual for GPU renderers), with something more complex. Nothing strange that such renderer became more popular in Max, c4d or Blender community, where people are focused more on simple things, instead of billions of polygons and whatever else.

I know you know, it's only GPU path-tracer, while V-Ray offers a broad range of methods.

[Falam]

I'd like to hear from those who are using Octane Render, how it is, what weaknesses does it have, how would you compare to Vray ?

From what I heard, it seems to have even more exaggerated ratio, scene complexity against the speed. So, for simple scene you can expect maybe the fastest path tracer on planet. But the speed seems to go down exponentially ( even more than usual for GPU renderers), with something more complex. Nothing strange that such renderer became more popular in Max, c4d or Blender community, where people are focused more on simple things, instead of billions of polygons and whatever else.

I know you know, it's only GPU path-tracer, while V-Ray offers a broad range of methods.

Thanks that is the info I was looking for.

I assume you'd choose vRay ? Do you have one more other choice you'd choose for render engines ?

[Mathaeus]

I assume you'd choose vRay ? Do you have one more other choice you'd choose for render engines ?

I'm not freelancer. vRay price doesn't really fit into budget for home experiments. I'm afraid you alone need to play with all these nice renderers all around, to get best option for you.

[Falam]

Damn
I shall begin

[Nox]

Well, for XSI:
GPU — Redshift
CPU (12+ cores) — Arnold
Archviz (non-GPU) — Vray

[Maximus]

Keep an Eye on Maxwell, its integration is one of the best we have on XSI and the render engine itself is stellar.