Octane Renderer, baby!

thomthom

hm... at my office they just gave me a new computer -with an ATI card... my old had an Quadro FX 3500,...

solo

Thomas, do you have a second PCIe slot? if yes get yourself a second card, run you machine with ATI card and renderer with Nvidea card.

notareal

@thomthom said:

hm... at my office they just gave me a new computer -with an ATI card... my old had an Quadro FX 3500,...

There seems to be a efforts to make Lux render port to OpenCL (nice timing comparing to this commercial product of radiance (former Lux render leader)). I bet there will be other low cost GPU renders available soon.

thomthom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA <- is that list up to date?
My old Geforce 8800 GT is on that list - but I don't see the Quadro FX 3500 of my older work computer...

Mike Lucey

Ahhh, but it was Remus' birthday yesterday so his reactions may not be a quick a normal

PS: this comment was referring to the topic that Remus started elsewhere. I'll leave it.

solo

Looks like we are at the threshold of a new era in rendering, it's about time the awesome power of the GPU got involved.

I believe one needs the Cuda sdk in order for this to work, which may make it a little tricky with Mac's correct?

Mike Lucey

GeForce 8600M GT in the MacBook Pro, so okay I imagine.

dedmin

All are going this way
For Rhino
http://www.seac02.it/
http://www.virtualshape.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19&Itemid=18&lang=en

For TurboCAD
http://www.redway3d.com/news/news300909.php

solo

Thomthom, here is an updated list:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn_products.html

pilou

Maybe this can enlight you

and this
[flash=560,340:21tzl5jt]http://www.youtube.com/v/ZrJeYFxpUyQ&hl=fr_FR&fs=1[/flash:21tzl5jt]

Mike Lucey

Don't Jamie and Adam have great jobs!

honoluludesktop

Wow, probably utilizes lots of ram, another reason to move to 64 bit Os?

notareal

@honoluludesktop said:

Wow, probably utilizes lots of ram, another reason to move to 64 bit Os?

GPU ram is one of the limiting factors at the moment as generally the scene has to fit in GPU's memory. Don't know how well GPU renders can use "bucket rendering" at the moment. Tesla cards are supposed to have enough memory, but with the cost. Anyway move in the 64-bit system is a good idea, as even with SU you can create scenes that do max out the memory of 32-bit OS, when you start rendering them.

Stinkie

Not too shabby either: http://www.randomcontrol.com/arion

Rendering's gonna change fo sho, dawgz! Seriously, though.

notareal

@unknownuser said:

Not too shabby either: http://www.randomcontrol.com/arion

Rendering's gonna change fo sho, dawgz! Seriously, though.

From http://www.randomcontrol.com/arion-faq
"
Q.- What makes Arion unique?
A.- We'd like to make the following 3 remarks:
- Arion is the first truly unbiased and physically-based engine in the market designed from the ground up to make use of GPU-acceleration.
"

...oops. Looks like they missed a bit with publishing Arion.

tfdesign

Nice to see that this will also run on Linux and OSX too. But I must say that Octane also looks works remarkably like Cheetah3D, especially with its modular approach to adding texture to surfaces, via 'patchcords'. At least there will be an option for Windows users.

solo

Tom, you always seem to get to a Mac vs windows theme

Nodes are NOT unique to Cheetah or Mac for that matter, in fact it's been around a while on PC only apps, I've used it since early Vue (which only recently has Mac capabilities) I believe Lightwave is node based also.

The difference is it's called nodes on PC and 'Modular' on Mac???

remus

They're used in blender as well, and a very large rhino plugin thats name escapes me at the moment. In conclusion, nodes are not a new idea.

I hear lux is also getting on the GPU bandwagon: http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/index.php?title=Luxrender_and_OpenCL Arion is almost looking old fashioned now

Khai

@tfdesign said:

Nice to see that this will also run on Linux and OSX too. But I must say that Octane also looks works remarkably like Cheetah3D, especially with its modular approach to adding texture to surfaces, via 'patchcords'. At least there will be an option for Windows users.

erm you know this Node based approach is in Maya, Softimage, trueSpace, Poser, Darktree Symbiont, etc etc.....?

EscapeArtist

Looks great. I'll definitely be trying the demo.