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New Render Engine - Octane Experiment
🕑 Added 2019-12-01 12:28:14 +0000 UTCA few days ago, Octane released a free plugin for Daz, that allows for Octane rendering from within Daz itself. So on to the more important matter, what does this mean for Callisto itself.
- Significantly increased rendering speed which allow additional animation and more complex scenes.
- Some slight changes to character appearance. I'll try to make as similar to original as possible, however the engine functions differently.
Over the past week or so I have been having issues with Daz rendering animations. Even on simple scenes, the texture memory requirements was pushing past my 6GB video memory and then forcing a switch from GPU rendering to CPU rendering. Octane uses less textures when rendering which significantly reduces the memory requirement. From simple testing today it also appears to be about 5 times faster. I will still use daz for rendering some of the scenes, however will likely only use octane for rendering animations.
As a final note, I would not be concerned about this delaying anything. I downloaded Octane today and have already worked out most of the functionality to produce the renders above. Lia was the real challenge, due to surface tweaking I had to do to fix not only her emissive skin, but also the metallic nature of the outfit.
Xav
UPDATE:
As an update to the post above, whilst the character conversion across to Octane went fairly smoothly, the conversion of the ship environment went very poorly. I tried to convert the captain's room to be compatible with Octane, however Octane did a terrible job of converting the Daz iRay textures.
Also due to the light sourcing options in Octane, I am not able to use a HDRI for lighting internal scenes. As such, the rendering speed and result was not providing an improvement on what I can already do in Daz.
Hence to sum it up, it was a 2 day experiment that bore very little fruit. Back to posing animations in Daz tomorrow.
Comments
Naughty James
WOW the lighting is really good and on little engineer, you really can see the lighting on her as well as the freckles on her in really good details
