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Octane v2.0 has been released

KrewKrew Posts: 25
edited December 1969 in The Commons

Just a quick note for those using Octane, version 2.0 has been released. The Poser v2.0 plug-in has also been released. I just wanted to mention this because I didn't get an email announcing it and I just kind of stumbled across it today. The standalone update price is 99 euro and the plug-in update is free.

:-)

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  • Midnight_storiesMidnight_stories Posts: 4,112
    edited December 1969

    Thanks downloading them now !!!

  • Coon RaCoon Ra Posts: 200
    edited December 1969

    Octane 2.0 displacement seems to be brilliant.
    And now it has hairs.

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,980
    edited December 1969

    Coon Ra said:
    Octane 2.0 displacement seems to be brilliant.
    And now it has hairs.

    To temper that slightly ... from what I understand what you use to create the 'scene' for importing into Octane has to create the 'hair/fur', it's not something you can actually do within Octane, If I'm wrong on that I'd be happy!
    I got caught out by Octane 2 requiring a higher level of CUDA driver than I had (it requires a minimum of 6), but happily an update to the latest nVidia drivers fixed that, but for a moment I was seriously unhappy! ;)
    The Daz Studio plug-in is lagging a little behind the times, with the developer not quite there with the implemeting of the 1.5 release of Octane, so I suspect that the OcDS release tha uses Octane 2 will be quite some time off.
  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,388
    edited December 1969

    Okay, but the REAL question is...will it run OPENCL on AMD graphic cards yet?

    This is the only thing holding me back from making a purchase.

  • Coon RaCoon Ra Posts: 200
    edited December 1969

    I use Modo. It was meant that Octan would need host's hair guides. The plug-in developer tells the hairs support in general is implemented into modo plug-in.

    As I understand Otoy comments Octane will never run OPENCL and never work on AMD graphic cards.

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,980
    edited December 1969

    Subtropic Pixel said:
    Okay, but the REAL question is...will it run OPENCL on AMD graphic cards yet?

    This is the only thing holding me back from making a purchase.

    So far as I know it still requires CUDA-compliant GPUs, which pretty much means nVidia only.

  • BendinggrassBendinggrass Posts: 1,371
    edited December 1969

    Coon Ra said:
    I use Modo. It was meant that Octan would need host's hair guides. The plug-in developer tells the hairs support in general is implemented into modo plug-in.

    As I understand Otoy comments Octane will never run OPENCL and never work on AMD graphic cards.


    I could be wrong on this but I seem to remember reading that some Nvedia (spelling?) cards now use Open CL.
    I will look for that bit of info again.

    R

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,980
    edited December 1969

    Bendinggrass said:
    Coon Ra said:
    I use Modo. It was meant that Octan would need host's hair guides. The plug-in developer tells the hairs support in general is implemented into modo plug-in.

    As I understand Otoy comments Octane will never run OPENCL and never work on AMD graphic cards.


    I could be wrong on this but I seem to remember reading that some Nvedia (spelling?) cards now use Open CL.
    I will look for that bit of info again.

    R

    I believe some support OpenCL (so may be used by LuxRender), but Octane requires CUDA support.

  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,388
    edited December 1969

    Yes, LuxRender supports OpenCL and so runs on AMD.

    I have AMD card and plan to add more. Octane needs to get with it. Write the code, code writers! ;-)

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